By clinging to American primacy through force and intimidation, Donald Trump is, ironically, undermining US global power. A saboteur trying to subvert US interests from the inside could hardly do better than what he’s accomplished through sheer incompetence.
  • AreaSIX @lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Going through the comments, it’s mostly Trump being an agent of China, of the Saudis, the Israelis, and mostly a Russian agent.

    I unfortunately don’t think there’s a way out of this for the US population unless people start to accept that Trump is a very distinctly American character, the culmination of what the right wing in the US has been working towards forever. And that the problem the US has is an internal one. Trump is an inevitable consequence of the US political environment, and he or someone like him would’ve come to power sooner or later, even if Russia didn’t exist as an external factor. Unless people accept that, I don’t think there’s any coming back from this for the US population. It’s just going to get worse. And it unfortunately will also bring chunks of the rest of World down with it in the process.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        3 days ago

        Putin’s primary objective is to cause enormous chaos in all aspects of American life, according to Foundations in Geopolitics, the Russian playbook:

        Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

        Any “stuff” he gets - land, territory, money, etc.- is all gravy. All he really wants is for America to devolve into such disorder and chaos, that their influence in the world dissolves.

        • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website
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          3 days ago

          Yes absolutely but that will not be Russia who will be the winner at the end.

          Right now China is moving it’s pieces really well and making a lot of allies that will last longer that a war and force will bring

        • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Give them half a chance, they’re currently working on internal ethnic cleansing.

          Once that’s done, or concurrently, they’ll move on to some blatant warmongering in the South China Sea, including the upcoming invasion of Taiwan.

  • MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Wow, who knew a Russian asset might try and “sabotage US dominance”?

    That’s just Unthinkable.

    These fucking writers need to stop acting like they have an IQ of 76.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Not to mention an Israeli asset.

        And The Heritage Foundation clearly have him on their puppet strings as well.

         

        If he was only being controlled by a single malicious entity, he might be breaking a few less things.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I wonder why? Hey let’s ask his boss, Putin. “Why is the obese imbecile being such a cunt…?”

    Ok, this just in from Putin:
    “Paedophile pisstapes”
    Wow, that could mean Putin was watching Grey’s Anatomy. Or it could mean that Putin has videos of russian asset tRUMP pissing over the kids that he had just raped.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    But no one in the us seems willing to do anything about it, aside from making the occasional mildly caustic statements online and in govt.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The public got so tired of being no. one they voted the absolute worst possible candidate in history to the highest office in the land for shits and giggles. I mean, how bad could it get? Fafo.

  • mystixa@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    No ‘seems’ about it. His entire purpose is to put all public on firesale to private interests. Its the same as when he was trying badly to sell New York real estate in the 80s to the Japanese specifically, even though there was a real fear about how much they were purchasing giving them too much control over our land and businesses.