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When is it going to stop being “He’s so incompetent, it’s like he’s doing it on purpose!” and start being “Oh, he’s doing this on purpose…”? This has been obvious for so long now.
I’d say it’s part incompetence, part intentional sabotage. He truly is a fucking moron, but he also hates the US.
He’s easily manipulated by corrupt people, including those who don’t have the best interests of the U.S. at heart.
Like seeing Tim Cook gift him that golden statue so apple gets no tariffs…like everyone can see and stroke his ego.
Which is funny because its like he’s an 8 year old boy. Ohh gold. Doesn’t yet realize Platinum is worth more, etc.
I’ll take Russian Asset for 1000, Alex.
There hasn’t been a doubt about his intentions for a long time. He is, however, likely taking many actions because someone told him to, he heard a sound bite on Faux News, or he perceived some slight from social media.
it doesn’t take much intelligence to destroy things under you over the course of 4-8 years. He’s very obviously incompetent because he’s doing this on purpose.
it doesn’t take much intelligence to destroy things
“A bull in a China shop” is a comparison I often use.
It’s fast and easy to break things. Any idiot can swing a sledge hammer at random stuff they don’t understand.
Fixing and building takes a lot longer. Also takes a lot more knowledge, skill and expense.
No, please don’t give him that much credit. If you saw him run a casino, you’d swear he was doing it on purpose, but he isn’t. He really just is that dumb.
I’m not saying he’s not also in Putin’s pocket, but don’t try to convince me that he has the brains necessary to make sabotage look like incompetence. He’s nowhere near that clever.
I’m not saying he’s “brilliantly” obfuscating his intent. For one, it’s blatantly obvious. Second, it doesn’t take intelligence to do what he’s doing. Third, my original point is that everyone from media to government officials are clearly in denial about what’s obviously happening, and are constantly downplaying the seriousness of his actions by attributing them solely to incompetence. There’s no chance of countering somebody if you can’t accept the reality of what they’re doing.
At this point, I assume only future historians will have the wherewithal to actually point out the intent behind it all.
That was always Putin’s goal. Was known as far back as 2016.
Krasnov
Since 1997, actually, when The Foundations of Geopolitics was published. Brexit is in there, too.
So far, it’s all going pretty swimmingly, though Ukraine is putting up more resistance than anticipated.
Especially notable to me that the article made its point without even getting into things like Trump effectively handing leadership in EV technology and alternative energy broadly to China, or giving the Chinese chip-making industry just the boost it needed to potentially be able to supply China’s needs on its own, or making the US so hostile to scientific reseach that China will likely end up leading the world in that as well.
Yes - he could hardly do more to more thoroughly destroy the US’s standing in the world if he set out to deliberately do exactly that.
Oddly though, that at least provides him with a bit of cover - if he wasn’t such a blithering idiot, I’d suspect that that really was his goal. But I don’t think he’s even capable of maintaining focus on a straightforward strategy, much less a subtle and multilayered one.
making the US so hostile to scientific reseach that China will likely end up leading the world in that as well.
That’s already the case
And that’s scary because the standard for scientific publishing in China was mostly shit. I haven’t kept up, but I hope they’ve cleaned up their act. No hate on China, but their actions were speaking volumes not too long ago.
I would’ve guessed that but didn’t know it. Thanks for the clarification.
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.
It is unfair to call trump a “Russian asset”. He is just as much a Saudi asset.
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.
Heritage foundation gets a lot of money from those same people
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.
Of course. That is the goal.
Russian plant.
That’s been the plan since 2016.
since long before that.
Facts! You can honestly go back to Nixon and watergate and even JFK’s assassination to see how and who the GOP really are and have always have been.
It’s already gone
That’s why he was put into power.
Ive been scared for over a decade now that the US gov is following a similar pattern Russia did 20 years ago and that when the US loses it’s economic and cultural dominance they will start to do exactly what Russia is doing and flex military might, except with the largest military in the world and bases in damn near every country.
If I was the leader of any other country I would have already started/redoubled efforts planning on how to engage with the US as an enemy years ago. Not ‘hur durr they’re already an enemy cuz Trump dumb’, I mean drones at your doorstep your children weap at sunshine enemy.
There is every chance of this happening. We’re already seeing the start of it with Trump’s remarks on Greenland and Canada. Those aren’t just harmless quips. They’re intent to (militarily) bully anyone and everyone into compliance.
Trump’s remarks on Greenland and Canada.
Also Panama and Gaza.
If I was the leader of any other country I would have already started/redoubled efforts planning on how to engage with the US as an enemy years ago. Not ‘hur durr they’re already an enemy cuz Trump dumb’, I mean drones at your doorstep your children weap at sunshine enemy.
Yeah… that’s actually happening. It just doesn’t make sense to be super noisy about it at the moment. Anyone in Canada that has any capability to manufacture drones are getting military procurement contracts approved ridiculously fast right now. Like those kinds of things usually take years to get through the red tape, but now it’s like weeks to go from testing to procurement.
At the moment it’s only a trade war, and it would be best if that’s as far as it goes. But if Trump takes things further… yeah, there will be drones at his doorstep. I wonder what something like this could do to Mar a lago? https://youtu.be/olYVvx8TfGk
Trump and Putin are going to be together in Alaska soon, would be real opportune.
It’s be cool if the overseas bases had some balls and just said, “fuck it, we’ll just side with our hosting country.” I guess it could really happen without a mini civil war on base.
Because the US isn’t at a full on tipping point on that yet, because yes, that’s when civil wars start.
US Civil War #1 started over a military base. If POTUS declares and attack on a major ally, that’s probably going to be the starting gun for the second one.
The U.S. Civil War #1 never really ended (confederate flags all over the South, institutionalized racism, legal slavery in for-profit prisons, etc.), it just went into a “cold” phase. It is certainly heating up again.
I agree with this as someone who grew up an hour away from Harrison Arkansas, but I say #1 just because historically the hot war does have defined dates.
So far everyone’s done what they’ve been told or simply quit, lets see how the FBI vs Innocent Lawmakers goes down though.
the largest military in the world
A military critically dependent upon components manufactured elsewhere.
Well, to be accurate, Putin is intend on sabotaging US dominance. HitlerPig is just his hired muscle.
Yes. The goal of this administration is and always has been to hurt America at the behest of foreign interests. We have got to stop acting surprised when the people who want to hurt America, in fact, hurt America.
Wrong again …
The powers that be and corporate owners seem intent on allowing Donald Trump to Sabotage US Dominance.
… dump truck Don is not that powerful or influential and you got to stop pretending he actually has anything to do with power.
Yeah. It’s an internal struggle between American oligarchs for who’d control the division of the pie now that it’s almost stopped growing. The rest are side effects and distractions, albeit consequential.
as a citizen of Earth I say: good.
Yeah. I’m sure China dominance is going to be so much better /s
They do bomb far fewer people. That’s an upgrade.
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.
