Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman Republic’s impending Civil War pitting Caesar against the country’s Senate and Pompey the Great, but the Rubicon was particularly revealing in that it indicated that Caesar was willing to defy the Senate’s political control in pursuit of his own ambitions. Caesar understood the significance when he commented “Alea iacta est!” meaning “The die is cast!” and there was no going back on his decision which eventually led to his defeating Pompey and becoming Dictator for Life before he was assassinated by Brutus and Cassius on the Ides of March in 44 BC. Likewise there is a lot of seemingly lesser important maneuvering in Donald Trump’s Washington that, if taken collectively, spells out a disaster in the making for our dear Republic just as Caesar sought to remake how and within what limits Rome was to be ruled in the future which led to the creation of the Roman Empire. Trump’s Rubicon moments might reasonably be seen as his declarations that he can …read more Source:: Ron Paul...