With what $? War is expensive, rebuilding infrastructure is expensive even if he sells off the Commons at fire sale prices. It wouldn't make up for his tax cuts let alone finance a military overhaul, let alone activate even more units overseas.

USA is 20 trillion in debt and another 40 or more in unfunded liabilities coming due over the next 20 years. The debt is unpayable. If interest rates go up even a couple percent the US ability to borrow to make current debt repayments will bankrupt the Fed Govt - which is almost a certainty anyway, just a question of when the bond and treasury holders start getting ripped off and paychecks stop being issued.

Give a monkey a grenade and it will blow itself up. Give a mentally unstable man nuclear weapons and he will blow us all up. Tick Tock - Tick Tock.

Another thing that I was thinking about, is how Donald Trump is betraying his friend Vladimir Putin, Bashar Al Assad and the other leaders who thought that Donald Trump was going to be an anti-war president. What a crook, what a liar Donald Trump. Well maybe he needed to be a liar, because that's the only that casino owners can get rich quickly, by fixing the casinos so that players that gamble in his casino never win a dollar

"No country spends trillions of dollars on military and wars can create a better economy for the working people. US imperialism has spent many trillions for wars whose returns are much less for the majority of the American people." Thank you adil mouhammed

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including my authority as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, I hereby direct the following:

Section 1. Policy. To pursue peace through strength, it shall be the policy of the United States to rebuild the U.S. Armed Forces.

Sec. 2. Readiness. (a) The Secretary of Defense (Secretary) shall conduct a 30-day Readiness Review. As part of this review, the Secretary shall:

(i) assess readiness conditions, including training, equipment maintenance, munitions, modernization, and infrastructure; and

(ii) submit to the President a report identifying actions that can be implemented within the current fiscal year and that are necessary to improve readiness conditions.

(b) Concurrently with the Readiness Review, the Secretary, together with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), shall develop a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget amendment for military readiness, including any proposed reallocations.

(c) The Secretary shall work with the Director of OMB to develop levels for the Department of Defense's FY 2018 budget request that are necessary to improve readiness conditions and address risks to national security.

(d) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary shall submit to the President a plan of action to achieve the levels of readiness identified in the Secretary's Readiness Review before FY 2019. That plan of action shall address areas for improvement, including insufficient maintenance, delays in acquiring parts, access to training ranges, combatant command operational demands, funding needed for consumables (e.g., fuel, ammunition), manpower shortfalls, depot maintenance capacity, and time needed to plan, coordinate, and execute readiness and training activities.

Sec. 3. Rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces. (a) Upon transmission of a new National Security Strategy to Congress, the Secretary shall produce a National Defense Strategy (NDS). The goal of the NDS shall be to give the President and the Secretary maximum strategic flexibility and to determine the force structure necessary to meet requirements.

(b) The Secretary shall initiate a new Nuclear Posture Review to ensure that the United States nuclear deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored to deter 21st-century threats and reassure our allies.

(c) The Secretary shall initiate a new Ballistic Missile Defense Review to identify ways of strengthening missile-defense capabilities, rebalancing homeland and theater defense priorities, and highlighting priority funding areas.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of OMB relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) All actions taken pursuant to this memorandum shall be consistent with requirements and authorities to protect intelligence and law enforcement sources and methods. Nothing in this order shall be interpreted to supersede measures established under authority of law to protect the security and integrity of specific activities and associations that are in direct support of intelligence and law enforcement operations.

(d) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(e) The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 27, 2017.

Thank you Tom,
for your report, revealing such early term belligerence on the part of a US President who only won the support of about 25% of the eligible voters. There really is something fundamentally wrong with such a system. It is surely democratic in name only.

Surely. 'Republic with "elections"' is intentionally to be confused with 'being a real democracy'.

I question the spin re 'lifting civilian collateral number' in Syria. Reports from pilots show they many times had perfectly good ISIS oil convoys and actual military targets -- nd were denied permission to shoot. They also report on the Jordanian ruined desert towwn where thousands of bomb were 'dumped', rather than land with them. Just like Vietnam. America didn't shoot at the ISIS convoys toward Palmyra (twice!) or to Deir ez Zor (and in fact, used the US coalition as ISIS air force to kill Syrian Army soldiers, in a treacherous back-stab designed to end a ceasefire by John Kerry).
Wise up, Yankis: your CIA's Syrian mission is to destroy Syria, which will not only fail -- it will bring you into the sights of Russians. You don't need that.

I have a cousin who told me that he wants to work for Donald Trump so that maybe he can rise to the upper class, by being closer to a billionaire family and maybe in the hope of catching some of that wealth. I told him, not to do that, so that he won't be depressed and dissapointed because the 10% population of US, who owns about almost 100% of the wealth created in US, will not spread their wealth to the lower classes. I told him, to get into socialism activism because the best state of the art intellectuals and thinkers all have clearly stated that capitalism is not a wealth-spreading economic system, capitalism is almost like a monarchy of the medieval ages. And the doctrine of marxism, socialism is the only political system that exists in this world that creates wealth and individual liberty. So people who are believing that reading self-help investing books, or working in a corporation owned by billionaires will some day make them rich are 100% wrong

These radical extremists far-right winger policies being applied by Donald Trump, might be caused by many motives:

1- either he being scared of being overthrown by the military industrial complex, and he is scared of being killed like Kennedy

2- another motive of these xenophobic agenda might be caused to satisfy the nationalism and pride of the people who voted for him,

3- or either because he doesn't know a lot about political economy and maybe he thinks that his nationalist xenophobic agenda might turn United States into a wealthy society

You are so uninformed I feel sorry for you. So sad. Leave if you don't like it.

The USA is such a poor country, the USA is so full of poverty and misery. In USA money is so concentrated in a few, that because of that, I don't even have money to travel to another city, or to another state. I wish i could get out of USA to a better country but my lack of money forces me to stay in this country. Besides I have to stay in this country USA in order to help marxists destroy capitalism, because capitalism is the real enemy of the USA and the real enemy of the whole universe

proxy forces, as in afghanistan & the death squads of South America, in the Phoenix program in Vietnam, Laos, etc., and other places we probably don't know about, proxy forces are what ISIS & AQ are. this is nothing new, this alignment w/the most malevolent & reactionary forces, who sometimes do have to be bombed themselves to keep them in line.

cf. Operations Paperclip & Gladio.

To put this into perspective, nothing US Presidential mascots could say, sign or do will change anything in regard to the course of action that the oligarchy or deep state (whatever one wishes to call it) has decided or set out to pursue.

The purpose of a corporate logo (which the mascot is) is not governance or policy but image. It is the political face of the entity behind it.

If the Imperium has decided to pursue the policy of "culling the herd" so be it. We should take comfort in the knowledge that no plan, no matter how detailed or extensively planned, is able to take into account every factor. It will be those factors that will shorten the stay of those criminals here on Earth and hasten their departure from it.

Their actions illustrate, yet again, their total moral and ethical depravity.

Is Donald Trump the peaceful anti-war nationalist friend of Putin? The people who voted for Donald Trump are not to blame. Even I thought that Donald Trump was going to be a sort of anti-war Ron Paul. Is this the great revolutionary that Alex Jones, Michael Rivero, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts supported in the electoral campaign? Wake up Putin !!

Wake up you old trumpies. Hope you are rich. Increases in military spending, coupled with Trump’s promises to drastically lower taxes on corporations and the rich, must inevitably be paid for by cuts to education, health care and infrastructure, and by plundering Social Security and Medicare.

The people who voted for him are unfortunatelly drugged by ignorance and and irrational crazy emotional love toward Donald Trump. I think that they will still keep supporting him even though Donald Trump will lower the living standards of the people who voted for him

President Trump has said that he is for the Forgotten Man. President Obama’s war spending, bail-out of financiers, deregulation, and pro-oligopoly and monopoly policies had impoverished the majority of the American people and redistributed their wealth to the wealthy people and banks. President’s Trump policies he signed during the first week will put more financial pressure on the Forgotten Man and on the entire working class. People voted for Mr. Trump to reverse Obama’s policies, but the first week has clearly demonstrated that we all will get more BS, and the wealthy becomes richer at our expense. No country spends trillions of dollars on military and wars can create a better economy for the working people. US imperialism has spent many trillions for wars whose returns are much less for the majority of the American people. Surprisingly, all this war spending has not produced a war victory against even the defenseless nations. No wars will be against Russia, China, and Iran because these countries have armies and weapons. US imperialism is crafting a plan to go after a country with five Humvees or less. President Trump is searching for a war victory and I could not find a country to win a war in it. He will go against Chicago’s African American kids and American Muslims. I am still not sure he can win. The article is really great and on the money and Many Thanks for it because is the guide for the future.

He's doubling down before those bullshitted by his "populism" realize he doesn't give a damn about them.

Trump sounds like a perfect heir of Obama, but the same people who praise the imperialist war criminal Obama are cursing Trump. It is just not fair!

For some time now the American mass media have been trashing Trump and praising Obama - as if they're somehow complete opposites. Many, many here fall for it. : (

Yeah the mainstream media and even alternative media is crazy. There are even progressive news sources that still believe that Donald Trump is anti-status quo, and that the movement towad impeaching him and the anti-Trump protests are all funded by George Soros

Too many.

If this buffoon trump gets all excited and actually does decide to get involved in the ME drama, then China will also put boots on the ground in Syraq and Afghanistan. Xi of China has been patient all this while, but if Trump blunders into this ME again or gets uppity in the SCS then the gloves will truly come off. Let's see how good the U.S. soldier fights the resistance trio on the ground in all theaters, despite a succession of defeats in the last 2 decades. I bet trump will be unceremoniously defeated by the trio, just like Obama before him.

I am worried about the international working class, and international youth. Whoever issues the executive order to place gun boots on war torn regions its ultimate consequence is women losing husbands, men loosing wives. Children loosing either one or both of the parents resulting the creation of hell on earth. Can we the internatioal working class permit imperialists to wreak havoc on our otherwise beautiful earth. Workers in the world unite to wipe out capitalism from the face of the earth and initalte centrally planned economy for the world based on the federation of socailist republics of the world. Build SEP/IYSSE in individual antion states under the ruberic of the party for the world revolution, ICFI. Thank you very so much comrade Tom Eley.

How much (or little) of the world economy would you recommend be centrally planned?

Don't forget the looming threat of a draft. That specter will return if more troops have to be sent to any theater of war in the ME or elsewhere. Young men and women beware!

Thank you Carolyn. My worry is that. I am 72 years and I have served the humanity to the best of my ability. If imperialists force me to go to the battlefield I can do it willingly because I want to influence soldiers. But I will not shoot any one on the battle field. Instead I would shoot the higher up who orders me to shoot the enemy. Another human being I can not consider as my enemy except the owners of the weaponized financial instrument. Of course I do not want to shoot any of them either. But I will do a life and death struggle to defeat them politically by urging the robust and heroic working class and the youth, our lifeline, to come forward to overturn capitalism that is the root cause of the raging war on our otherwise beautiful, lovable planet earth. Death to imperialism. Revival to my lovable planet earth which I myself have traversed in an enough quantity.

This latest iteration of the capitalism falling apart is accelerating. by now it's so rotten I welcome it and am cheering Trump on. I can only hope I survive it but even Lenin died so...

Reyter, capitalism is so over! time for some new ideology. No one currently has a clue on where to go......as we trudge on.

Chinese have their hands full terrorizing Muslims in Chinese-controlled Turkestan. So they are no better than Pentagon terrorists waging war on Muslims for a quarter of a century, since 1991!
Chinese are loathe to put boots on foreign soils. Only the mighty Mao did once, when he helped the North Koreans to repel US agression in the 50's. He did succeed in his endeavor, with tens of thousands of US prisoners taken by the Chinese army. But that epic era is over.

wsws: true, according to the ideology of the Communist Party of China, China is supposed to have a workers' state, not a capitalist state

Impeach website?

There was also some border clashes with Russia and India,
as well as a disastrous attempt against Vietnam once it switched sides to the US in the 70s...

Those Uighur's who take CIA money and arms against Beijing and wage war against the nation are fair game.......don't be fooled just like the bought and paid for Syrian opposition......