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The War Between the Americans: Phase 2 of the urban globalists failing to dislodge Trump from his leadership of the rural nationalists. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

Founded in 1972. Formerly Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily Volume XXXVI, No. 12 Wednesday, February 21, 2018 © 2018 Global Information System/ISSA. ________________________________________ The Battle of Washington The US, a year after the election of a new President, remains deeply engaged in a war between an entrenched “establishment” and that disruptive new President. What is significant is that there are no “war correspondents”, so there is an unin-formed electorate. The outcome will be critical for the entire world. And now the war has entered Phase Two. Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. The war between the urban globalists and the regional nationalists in the US has moved into a second year, and a second phase. Superficially, the ongoing skirmishes between US Pres. Donald Trump and the com-bined forces of the Democratic Party and much of the US media have seemed merely, well, unseemly. It is intended to appear that way. Each side seeks to belittle, trivialize, and ridicule the other; and the core electoral bases on each side galvanize behind such characterizations. But the reporting is essentially misleading. What is occurring is, in fact, a serious war between an entrenched establishment and a President who was elected to change the status quo.1 The war may not be over until one side or the other is destroyed in some form or other, or unless one side is co-opted. It is likely to be an extremely messy process, in which most of the activities and even causes are obscured by a partisan media. In essence, however, it is difficult for either side to relent. Pres. Trump feels that he has been elect-ed and empowered to act to disrupt an increasingly urban-centric, anti-national estab-lishment. And that “establishment” feels equally that it must stop Pres. Trump from dis-rupting its sense of entitlement and process. And while the visible part of the spectrum appears to be played out in the media on is-sues of style, it is within the discreet areas of the intelligence, security, and justice communities that the war is being truly fought. The outcome, of course, impacts the in-ternational community, given the weight of the US in global power and economic struc-tures. The urban, globalist element of the current war — centering around the media, much of the Democratic Party and some of the Republican Party, and the bureaucracy — based its rationale during the first year of the Trump Presidency around rejection of Pres. Trump on the premise that he had conspired with a foreign power, Russia, to manipu-late the course of the US Presidential election in November 2016. And this became the basis for legal actions indirectly to depose Pres. Trump. But, by early 2018, it was becoming apparent that any Russian attempts to interfere with or influence the US Presidential elections of November 8, 2016 — to the extent that they occurred — may have actually favored Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton rather than Republican candidate Donald Trump. At the same time, actual interference in the election process may have more significant-ly occurred as a result of separate — perhaps inadvertent — activities by the British in-telligence services, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) and technical surveillance agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), to favor Mrs Clinton and disadvantage candidate Trump.2 That phase of “the war against Trump”, however, was over, effectively, as of February 16, 2018. On that date, the Special Counsel Investigation into possible Russian influ-ence in the US 2016 Presidential election, headed by former Federal Bureau of In...