They are deathly afraid Trump will begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has

wreaked havoc around the world,

bled America's fiscal accounts dry, and

fostered unspeakable prosperity among the beltway's legions of empiresupporting agencies, contractors, think tanks, foreign lobbies, NGO's and Kstreet racketeers.

Whether out of common sense, naiveté or just contrariness, the Donald has dared to question and disrupt the Empire's core policy on the Ukraine/Russia file. And that's apparently exactly why the whistleblower de jour, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, wrote his now ballyhooed memos.

He feared that Trump's appropriate desire to get to the bottom of the welldocumented Ukrainian involvement in the Obama Administration's illegal spying on his 2016 presidential campaign would undermine the bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill for Washington's utterly wrong-headed Ukraine policy.