• hector@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know what greenland thinks those hosers in canada are going to do about it. I think about the entire west rejects this bad faith argument to annex the territory of one of our oldest and closest allies in the most successful military alliance of all time as I’ve heard it described.

    What this all is, it’s not even about greenland at it’s root. It’s about ending Nato, for Russia. The president can’t blow Nato up directly, he doesn’t have the juice for that, his hold on power cannot withstand that kind of radical change at the moment with that part of the coalition he needs for his plans on turning the United States into a de facto one party state with fixed elections. The military is key to how they plan on doing that, martial law and all.

    I believe his floating of the idea of increasing military spending to 1.5 trillion was to show the arms contractors he could make up the difference for the orders lost to europe over such an act.

    Him being beholden to putin, it’s always been true, helsinki made it quite clear as if it wasn’t already. Obviously he’s beholden to Israel with their epstein blackmail. Russia surely has their own. Medvedickhead did claim this summer to have epstein files implicating the president even.

    They have something bad enough to tank his support clearly. More than just his relationship with russian organized crime in his real estate dealings.

    • GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca
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      22 hours ago

      I don’t put much stock into the “Russian puppet” theory. Presidents have been removed for far, far less than destroying NATO on behalf of the foreign enemy. If he really was a foreign agent, the CIA or some other three letter agency would have gotten rid of him one way or another.

      It also lets America off the hook. “Is this the culmination of a process that started before Reagan? No, it was the bad country, Russia, that used their puppet to destroy us. Without Russia and their puppet, everything would be fine.” The effect of the claim, and I would argue the point of it, is to exonerate the Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans for all their failures and misdeeds, to chalk Trumpism off as an aberration, and to promote the idea that everything will be fixed once this one guy goes away. It’s a simplistic and self-serving idea that reads like an airport novel, and it shouldn’t be taken very seriously.

      The truth is much stupider and much scarier. The smart people in American politics and government have slowly been rotated out, leaving the stupids. Republican culture war politics, originally just red meat for the base, has wormed its way into the actual world view of the people at the top. They believed their own propaganda, and think that maintaining global hegemony through soft power and finance is “woke”, and “giving money away to third-world shitholes.” They don’t actually understand that they were the primary beneficiary of the old world order, and harken back to the good old days when America would simply violently impose its will on the rest of the world, not realizing that America never stopped doing that, and all the diplomatic power and financial power was just the velvet glove over the mailed fist.

      This is probably a good thing for the world, at least in the long term, but it’s very bad for us and for Europe. We let the vampire in a long time ago, letting it offer us benefits and protection at the expense of our independence and our complicity. Now it’s turned on its minions, and we’re weak, long since made ourselves dependent on it. Look at how Macron grovelled to Trump about Iran - “Brilliant work, master! We are in complete agreement about the townsfolk and who their blood truly belongs to! But why must you feed on one of us, your friends?” The vampire does not have friends, it has prey and it has servants. Now it’s decided that the servants are prey as well.