Will The Military Remain Loyal to Trump?

It’s a pertinent question as the Trump Administration enters its third year with polarization between Republicans and Democrats worse than it’s ever been, and the spectre of a possible war with Iran looms in the distance.

Not forgetting the high turnover of staff in the Administration’s early days or that the Commander-In Chief had and has, many turncoats in his government and party.

Just last year the New York Times published an anonymous letter from a supposed senior official in the Trump Administration calling the Republican leader a crock.

This official claimed he and some colleagues were working from within to frustrate Trump’s worst inclinations.

Of course we only have The NYT’s word that he was a Trump administration official, but it could just as easily been a deliberate leak to discredit Trump, likely originating from either Intelligence Agencies or the Military.

MAGA, the American constitutional restoration movement can be compared to a counter revolutionary drive against the rolling progressive agenda of the left that began when Democrat and Manchurian change agent, Barrack Obama took office in 2008.

Now it’s time for the BIG question; will the American Military, service branches and chain of command remain loyal to its Commander In Chief when the chips are down?

Yes or no?

Revolutions are usually non-linear, they may start slowly and develop at their own pace until a certain event, be it political, military or economic push things over the edge to success, failure or Civil War.

Conservative journalist, Baruch Pletner, describes Trump as an unlikely revolutionary, calling him a pragmatist used to cutting deals with both types of mafia: the one with Government email addresses and the other with baseball bats in the trunk.

First of all he cut a deal with the establishment.

He hired whomever they told him to for senior-level positions and advanced their agenda items first, postponing implementing many of his campaign promises.

Obviously many things he implemented on taking office actually worked, but it all started to fall apart with the immigration issue, with the establishment, including Republicans, refusing to budge on their commitment to open border migration.

The assessment; Trump gave in to losing the House without a fight, playing nicely with the ridiculous Mueller “investigation”, hoping Democrats, having taken control of the House and saved some of the “face” they lost in 2016, would move towards the expressed wishes of sixty-two million American voters.

It didn’t happen.

Plan B would involve a war of annihilation against the American establishment but Trump needs an army for this.

Which begs the question; did Marine Corps Generals John Kelly and James Mattis refuse to use the military to secure the Mexican border at the instruction of Donald Trump?

Was this why they were fired?

Like Pletner says, if an elected Commander In Chief cannot order his military to secure the country’s borders, America as an independent political entity is finished.

This brings us to war with Iran.

Trump campaigned on a ticket of no more U.S. foreign wars and since then has repeatedly said he doesn’t want war with Iran.

The trouble is the powerful Military Industrial Complex will not let the issue fade away.

Iran has long been a target for regime change by the military establishment, along with Syria and the current impasse is exactly what they are looking to exploit.

If Trump refuses to go along to get along, his days as U.S. President and Commander in Chief might well be numbered by 2020.

Ironically, from a military perspective the only way he might stand a chance of winning a second term of office is to go to war with Iran, breaking one of his main pledges in 2016.

Will his pragmatism win at the expense of his judgement?