Dick Cheney reshaped the USA in his image. How did he do it? By getting like-minded people appointed to obscure yet powerful positions. Once they’re in, they tend to escape notice and hence stay in. They in turn hire people (men, mostly) who believe as they do. The eventual result is a United States of America entirely devoted to the Project For A New American Century [PNAC] program of global domination. If you are in the government but aren’t a believer you get at best sidetracked, at worst imprisoned. You’d best at least pretend gung ho.
You and your fellow US citizens were not consulted. The program was never put to a vote. It was never debated. It just is. Those who oppose this can be punished, legally or extralegally. The law doesn’t matter. The program rules.
Trump may or may not have wanted to stop it, but he didn’t know how. So the train kept a’rollin’. All night long.
How do we know this? Listen to Laurence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff. While he opposed Cheney’s aims, he praises his acumen, bureaucratic mastery, and sincerity. “He believed what he was doing was best for the United States.” We’ll see about that. The USA with 5% of the world’s population is attempting to dominate the remaining 95%. That’s about the same odds the Axis powers faced. We know how it worked out for them.
How does anyone come up with such a crazy plan? That’s just the way the military’s emotional mind works. Once they take over, that’s the program. We are the best. Complete domination. Or else.
As for how get the populace to support this foolish effort, let’s ask someone who really knows : Hermann Goering. In the Nazi effort at the domination of Europe he was Number Two, right after Adolf. Hermann said
Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.—in conversation in his cell in Nuremburg, 18 April 1946;
— Gustave Gilbert Nuremburg Diary (1947)
Uh…yeah.