People skeeting stuff.
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Because of one simple reason: "Don't care as long as I get mine's", personified in Trump, fueled by the increasing disdain those that have wealth and power have had for their neighbors such that the don't mind living surrounded by shit because they feel they already are.
Tbh it’s basically the movie 300 without king Leonidas.
The average American is really, really dumb
Yes and the propaganda helped too. The billionaires in the US figured out how to get control of most of the media. It's a master class for the billionaires of the rest of the world. I imagine it won't take long for everyone else to start seeing that kind of propaganda as well.
really, really dumb
Really, really, >really ~really DUMB.
Trump is 100% a Russian asset, wild to see that after it was blatantly obvious the first go around we were like "yeah let's out a Russian spy back in the white house."
The important point isn’t even whether or not he is a Russian asset. He undoubtedly is, but that doesn’t actually matter. All that matters is that he’s acting like a Russian asset. He’s doing all the things a Russian asset would do. Ultimately, whether the orders are actually coming from Putin is irrelevant, because the end result is still the same.
Judging how Russian elites started licking up to Trump, even blurring out the Soviet emblems in old movies recently in cinema (that's really unexpected), and that general "master is our friend, master will forgive us", it seems that Russia is Trump's asset.
You are forgetting how much power the US and every powerful person in it have. Russia is simply not on the same level, USSR might have been once.
Still, that they are in a relationship is obvious.
I'm not forgetting. It's just that Russia is clearly dictating some major USA foreign policy and was from 2016 to 2020 as well.
Obviously it's not black and white, the world is full of gray, but just looking at it through a realpolitik lens the USA is squandering our international goodwill. It may be at the negotiating table and the UN, ceding territorial control via soft power (ie: blowing up USAID which is an idea so retarded it's embarrassing) that gave us access to resources and good will for where we stick all our military bases, letting Russia dictate terms on the surrender of Ukraine, talking about pulling out of NATO (also insane) and at least working at odds with it... Etc.
Sorry for the run on sentence.
Anyways I'm just saying sure some Russian elites are also stroking off Trump at times but that's just window dressing. If anything they're doing it because Trump is so incredibly egotistical he can be easily manipulated by pretending to care more about him. That and they want to use him to help launder money and assets (see: cryptocurrency and real estate deals).
Sorry, but about Trump's clearly seen NPL - not only Russia is doing it, but also Argentina under Milei, you are not going to argue Trump is Milei's puppet, I hope. Nobody wants to piss off a narcissist at the top of the US simply because it's going to be expensive if nothing else.
I think the reason Americans love to see Russia as something that strong is because of the Cold War, Russia is not USSR even remotely.
Also I often write alarmist things about Ukraine's situation at the frontlines, but right now they say it's a draw. Capitulation is not something they'll discuss because there's no need.
And everybody already knew that the US can elect any idiot.
Half the country have always been aware of it, but are powerless to stop it, the other half either voted for him because of it- or are in complete denial that it’s happening- right before their eyes.
The president grovels to putin: This is an unprecedented loss of u.s. soft power and the world is judging America for it's cowardice.
The president, congress and every major media organization grovels to netanyahu: ....
This does look bad on our part but the main thing making us look bad on the world stage is our support for Israel. If you ask the average person outside of the west what they find most offensive about this administration they'll probably say its genocidal policy in gaza, not it's shakedown of an ally.
That’s just not true
Countries threatened by China care a lot more about this than Gaza
Another big winner here is China. I would love to know the contents of that meeting between putin and xi, I think back in 2022(?)
It wasn’t intentional. Trump followed Putin just as Vance followed Trump. He is just too stupid to have seen how this would play out.
Getting attacked by a foreign leader is such an effective way to rally your people behind you, that governments often fabricate external threats as a way to unify their nation. Putin knew the ways this could play out. The only more desirable result for Putin would’ve been Zelenskyy reluctantly accepting the agreement, but globally discrediting the US was a guarantee.
Putin was a KGB intelligence officer for 16 years before going to work for Yeltsin. The man outsmarts intelligence experts for fun. Trump’s ignorance and ego make him the perfect patsy, and the greedy Republicans in office have fully manifested into spineless yes men that are guaranteed to stay out of his way.
Putin is not some 4D Chess master. This should be blatantly obvious since 2022. But he does not need to be what you make him out, all he needs to be is a little bit smarter than the orange idiot.
I remember the first time I started to pay attention to geopolitics. It was when George W. Bush was elected president, and it made me freak out a bit. Why would a country like America elect such an obvious idiot to the highest office?
I also remember that Putin in comparison seemed like an intelligent, sensible person, even if tad intimidating.
I'm not sure what my point is except that George W. is a genius compared to Trump.
You know, I can easily imagine the first part opening a lot of peoples eyes about Trump if they saw it on it's own. Add the second part and they are likely to throw it into the flat-earth bucket of statements.
I really wonder how much of the current situation in the US is because people would rather be smug and gloat over people with different politics then actually try to convince them.
It wasn't disinformation - it is a pedophile who had minors delivered into his bed and was filmed during the atrocities. The resulting child pornography is what makes orange guy the lap dog of a psychotic killer.
The rest was easy with an asset that high in the ranks.
Could be. It could also just be bribes.
The current situation is really nice for countries like Russia, Saudi-Arabia and China. They just need to pay a few billion to Trump and get stuff that cannot be bought and are easily worth hundreds of billions from the US empire.
