The Hard Fork

The red network almost collapsed due to a hard fork over a war with Iran. Trump successfully navigated the network through the disaster. Here's how and why forks are so dangerous.

The red network that placed Trump in office ran into a problem when;

• Its client state, Israel, initiated a war with Iran. Israel’s casus belli was to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, which it didn’t have the capabilities to do. It was also designed to drag the US into a war with Iran to change its regime (aka plunge it into chaos).

• After the first attack, a portion of the red political network, and a loose collection of neocon never Trumpers, immediately sprang into action to pressure Trump and his administration to support Israel and go to war with Iran.

• However, this effort immediately ran into opposition. A large portion of the red network, and particularly its younger cohort, viewed a war with Iran as a clear violation of a core resonance that had bound the red network together: no more foreign wars. The implication was that if Trump hard forked the network by going to war with Iran, the red network would shatter and his support would evaporate.

Trump, as the ‘leader’ of the network, was immediately put on the horns of a dilemma.

• Should he forcibly hard fork the red network and go to war with Iran and risk shattering his base, or

• Preserve the bulk of the red network together, but alienate the part of the network calling for action?

Here’s what Trump did to avoid a hard fork;