Forget Deep State, Tillerson Plans The “Deep Economy” With Russia and the Saudis

“My Philosophy is to make money. If I can drill and make money, then that’s what I want to do.”

- Former CEO Exxon Rex Tillerson

On the surface, President Donald Trump and his administrative staff promised to drain the swamp (The Deep State) in Washington DC. But some warn it’s merely going to be replaced by another Swamp: The Deep Economy. To be sure, he and others, such as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, White House Chief of Staff Stephen Bannon, and the secretive multibillionaire hedge-fund tycoon Robert Mercer(1), not only plan to establish The Deep Economy by applying the economic methods of Creative Destruction, but to monopolize the major oil and energy reserves through a plutocratic and economic “shadow” structure consisting of a U.S.-Russia-Saudi coalition.

New Destroys the Old, Including Wealth and “Circulation of Elites”
Credited with playing a major role in Donald Trump’s election and for outing his opponents-the Koch Brothers, the Trump Administration gladly embraced Robert Mercer and Creative Destruction. Creative Destruction is a view that capitalism and markets are never stationary but always undergoing major changes that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within. Despite the social consequences, the incessantly new moreover destroys the old which includes the “circulation of the elites” and wealth. Its a view that’s also similar to Stephen Bannon’s philosophy of chaos, where the existing State and its rulers must be utterly destroyed and replaced by a new State and rulers.

With Russia-Saudi Alliance, Deep State to be “Exxon-Mobilized”
Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, sent a clear message to NATO, announcing plans to skip the April meeting in Belgium to visit Moscow. Despite NATO’s concern over President Trump’s cozy relationship with Russia, it won’t be Rex Tillerson’s first trip to Russia. The former CEO of Exxon-Mobil has indeed spent years investing and negotiating deals with the Russian government regarding access to the nation’s vast petroleum resources. As a result, the Deep State is about to undergo a MacDonalized, “Exxon-Mobilized” transformation. Instead of a National Security State and Pentagon-led military-industrial complex, expect a new Deep Economy: an Economic Security State and Petroleum-led industrial-complex.

What’s more, Rex Tillerson’s surprise came on the heels of President Trump’s meeting with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salaman. In addition to increased military aid for the Saudi-led war in Yemen and crackdown in Bahrain-against Iran-backed Shiites, more petroleum exploration and drilling technologies will be shared. Not only will a petroleum-based funded Wall Street likely supply the means and energy that keeps a new political and military machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary puppet show to a U.S.-Russia-Saudi alliance, but the new Deep Economy will be primed to dominate the globe by monopolizing clean petroleum innovations.

Economic Elites Never Sleep-First Test for Deep Economy Is Iran
Iran will be just one of several targeted powers. Indeed, it’s no secret President Trump wants to punish Iran and undo its nuclear enrichment program. Calling the nuclear treaty “a disastrous deal and horrible contract,” he’s warned the nation it would have “hell to pay” if it continued launching ballistic missiles. On the “Morning Joe” show, when asked about the treaty with Iran, he even hinted at regime change saying, “I love to buy bad contracts where…people go bust, and I make those contracts good. We’re going to rip it up!” Including sanctions, the Trump Administration plans to use the new, developing petroleum-based oligarchy alliance against Iran and other nations like China.

To be sure, economic and entrepreneur elites never sleep, their private views and motives-Creative Destruction and Chaos-always displaced onto public and foreign objects and rationalized in terms of public interest. For now, a corporate-led countermovement, which consists of new partisan CEOs and political outliers who wanted to destroy the status quo and purge the last eight years, seized control of Washington. This new Deep Economy’s “economy within a state” explains the ongoing turmoil. Plans are also underway to increase clean energy production and innovations. Controlling prices and a plutocratic boom-and bust global economy will, to say the least, impact the world.

Petroleum, Not Fear, Feeds the Beast
This U.S.-Russia-Saudi-led Deep Economy will try to monopolize major gas and energy reserves too through the 21st century. For instance, not only does Rex Tillerson’s Exxon-Mobil Corporation have ties with Apple Inc. and Google, making it one of the top three largest public companies in market value, but he believes “it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source.” Until then, he thinks natural clean burning gas has no particulates or emissions that are a concern to health or the environment like coal, fuel oil, and other energies. As for Global Warming and Climate Change, he claims “it’s an engineering problem with engineering solutions.”

Along with Robert Mercer and Stephen Bannon, they’ll be many other supportive players, ideologies, and, of course, future wars in the new Deep Economy. To be sure, Governor Rick Perry, who is now Secretary of Energy, the restart of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, Russia-U.S. “Safe Zones” in Syria, Rex Tillerson’s announcement that U.S. troops will be stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely, and greater investments and risk taking strategies in developing petroleum energies, is just a foretaste of things to come. This new Pivot to Petroleum with a U.S.-Russia-Saudi coalition will indeed control one of the most vital problems and necessities to humankind: energy.

Many Unknown Unknowns
They’ll also certainly be more exposes and scandals on questionable characters within the Deep Economy. Ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who didn’t sign an ethics pledge, evidently collected more money than was known from Russia-related entities.(2) In the meantime, what else is not known about President Trump and his Administration?

[Note: It has just been reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attend a rescheduled meeting of the NATO alliance’s 28 foreign ministers after coming under fire for saying he would miss the event because it conflicted with his schedule. He will go to Brussels for a meeting of the 28-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization on March 31 after a visit to Turkey the day before, the State Department said Friday. The meeting was originally set for April 5-6. However, he still plans to meet with President Vladimir Putin.]

Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John‘s Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com.

(1) www.democracynow.com. “Jane Mayer on Robert Mercer & the Dark Money Behind Trump and Bannon,” See Amy Goodman Interview. March 23, 2017.
(2) www.pbs.org. “Ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Didn’t Sign Ethics Pledge.” March 23, 2017.