{"id":1380,"date":"2018-12-10T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:36:19","slug":"this-is-not-trumps-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/this-is-not-trumps-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not Trump&#8217;s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<amp-fit-text layout=\"fixed-height\" min-font-size=\"14\" max-font-size=\"48\" height=\"50\"><p>This is Not Trump\u2019s Fault<\/p><\/amp-fit-text>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYellow vests\u201d are rampaging through Paris.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBrexit\u201d is teetering on the brink of collapse.&nbsp;&nbsp;Trump is on the verge of impeachment.&nbsp;&nbsp;The leaders of Russia and Saudi Arabia, both murderers, are greeting each other like boys who won the big game.&nbsp;&nbsp;Authoritarian leaders are in control in Turkey, and Hungary and the Philippines; nations we thought were well in the \u201cdemocratic\u201d camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is going on in the world?\u00a0\u00a0Why has a world that seemed to be moving towards a more stable society (or if you are an alt-right conspiracy theorist \u2013 a NEW WORLD ORDER) now seem to be falling apart; \u00a0why the unrest, why the uncertainty?\u00a0\u00a0Didn\u2019t we win the Cold War, the War to stabilize the world against Communist aggression?\u00a0\u00a0Why didn\u2019t that fix things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So something you don\u2019t hear everyday here in Trump World:&nbsp;&nbsp;this isn\u2019t Donald Trump\u2019s fault.&nbsp;&nbsp;The forces driving the unrest in the world, including here in the United States, were happening long before his ride down the golden escalator in Trump Tower.&nbsp;&nbsp;I will say though, that he isn\u2019t helping to solve the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was on Christmas Day seventeen years ago that the red hammer and sickle flag of the Soviet Union was lowered for the last time.\u00a0\u00a0With the end of the Cold War, a world carefully balanced ended as well. We were we no longer poised on the point of nuclear holocaust, but the \u201ccontrols\u201d that the Soviets placed on their \u201csatellite\u201d states were gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lesson should already have been learned after the death of Marshal Tito, the dictator of Yugoslavia.&nbsp;Once Tito, in power since the end of World War II, no longer had his iron fist in control of the nation, it quickly broke up into combative ethnic regions.&nbsp;&nbsp;One nation, held together by a shared history of resistance to Nazism and the fierce personality of Tito, became a struggling amalgam:&nbsp;&nbsp;Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Serbia.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ethnic violence between Christians and Muslims became ethnic cleansing; European cities like Sarajevo, site of the 1984 Winter Olympics, became battlegrounds with mass graves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the United States had to learn that lesson again, soon after the Persian Gulf War.&nbsp;&nbsp;President George W Bush determined to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, taking the \u201ccork out of the bottle\u201d of ethnic hatred.&nbsp;Sunni, Shi\u2019ite and Kurds fought for power, ISIS grew from the conflict, and the United States still remains bogged down in the region, unable to find a stable government to leave behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The battles in the Balkans and in the Middle East created waves of refugees that moved into the rest of Europe.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many were Muslim, and most \u201clooked different\u201d than the Germans, or French, or British where they landed.&nbsp;&nbsp;They needed jobs and housing and education; and \u201cethnic minorities\u201d became an issue in places where it had never occurred before:&nbsp;&nbsp;the small \u201ccrossroads and pub\u201d hamlets of the United Kingdom and France and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationalism is the belief that a national group is \u201cbetter\u201d than the rest of the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;It has a positive side, patriotism, evoking national pride and encouraging work and sacrifice.&nbsp;&nbsp;But its ugly side: superiority that becomes a reason to hate and repress, grew powerful in the economic tensions of the 1930\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As a \u201c national force\u201d it was discredited and disgraced at the end of World War II:&nbsp;&nbsp;the catastrophic destruction of the war, and the racist annihilation of the Holocaust, made it clear what Nationalism could do.&nbsp;&nbsp;National identities were subsumed into the idea of trans-national governments, whether it was the European Union, the Soviet Union, or even the United Nations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Nationalism didn\u2019t die, it was right under the surface.&nbsp;&nbsp;In those nations where it was suppressed by force, like Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (now fifteen separate \u201crepublics\u201d) the removal of authoritarian regimes quickly allowed ugly nationalism to blossom.&nbsp;&nbsp;In more democratic nations it still existed, but in 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