What kind of world are the Orange and his puppet master billionaires building?

Are we headed for slavery, extinction, the matrix or some other post apocalyptic future?

How do these despots think that food arrives?

At the moment it seems they’re hell bent on global destruction.

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    All Russia has to do (and by Russia, I mean specifically Putin and the KGB) is compromise our President

    The KGB hasn’t existed since 1991.

    And no, compromising our president is NOT the only thing that a foreign actor would have to do. They would have to outmaneuver the entirety of the CIA working to prevent EXACTLY that situation from ever occurring. They would have to somehow stop the CIA from stopping such an agent at every possible step of the way over the past 12 years. You are living in a magical sitcom fantasy land where the bad guys are trying to get the McGuffin and if they do - GAME OVER, MAN. That’s not how reality works.

    It’s quite interesting how many pro-Russian decisions and talking points that are coming out of Trump’s mouth.

    It is interesting. It’s almost as if US policy has shifted its position regarding Russia and the president is aligned with that policy.

    how much ‘influence’ we have (which is dwindling every day since Trump has alienated our allies and made us an absolute mockery on the world stage)

    You have no idea how influence works, do you. Sure, Trump is a laughing stock. You still can’t buy oil from OPEC without USD. Most nations still have billions of dollars in the US economy, and particular in US bonds. Most nations operate under USA-favorable conditions dictated by treaties with USA back with credible threats. US intelligence still operates the 5 Eyes, still runs the terrorist networks all over the world, still educates and trains the world’s most deadly death squads. Yes, Trump is a laughing stock and the USA still dominates the globe and EVERY SINGLE NATIONAL LEADER has to consider the USA when choosing their words and their actions.

    The size of our military, the amount of money we have or how much ‘influence’ we have - none of it matters if Putin has control of Trump

    Pure young adult novel fantasy writing. It’s just so incorrect and all the evidence of history shows how incorrect it is. You just can’t imagine any other way that US foreign policy would suddenly change and desire an alliance with Russia the only thing you can come up with is a paper doll fantasy.

    Trump, who has wasted no time in replacing the heads of government agencies with those loyal to his agenda

    You do realize that the reason the CIA has a dozen different classifications for information is so that no single person or group ever has 100% of the information required? The agency is organized to survived the constant change of president. It couldn’t serve its function otherwise. So yes, Trump has chosen a cabinet of “loyalists”. Do you think all of those people are compromised by Russia? Or do you think that they all believe they can get more power if they turn the USA into a vassal of a smaller nation? Or do you think every single one of them is stupid?

    By the by, how did Trump find all these loyalists? What did he offer them and how did they meet? Did Trump’s real estate dealings and golf outings put him in touch with these people? Or is there just a huge pool of power brokers out there just waiting to take the world’s richest and most powerful country and try to gain more money and power by subjugating such a country to a smaller, weaker, poorer country?

    It’s very easy to dismantle your fantasy by considering that other people also have agency and aspirations and asking yourself why anyone would be loyal to Trump if Trump is acting out of complete desperation because he’s been compromised and if his choices lead to a worse outcome for the business community and the intelligence community, both of which are communities who assassinate people for far less urgent reasons on a regular basis.

    You’re wrong. Or you’re a propagandist. Either way, time will tell.

    Ah yes. Your analysis is so thorough. Also, the only people who could possibly disagree with you are paid to disagree with you by a nation with far less money and far smaller intelligence capabilities and far less globally effective operations than the one in your home country. Classic.