Listen to Donald Trump and you would think Moscow and Beijing were lying in wait off the coast of Greenland, ready to pounce to boost their power in the Arctic.
“There are Russian destroyers, there are Chinese destroyers and, bigger, there are Russian submarines all over the place,” President Trump said recently.
That is why, according to America’s president, US control of Greenland is essential.
So how do you think Moscow has reacted to its alleged plot being uncovered and potentially thwarted by a US takeover of Greenland?
The Russians can’t be pleased. Right?
Wrong.
Yes, it’s the Machiavellian, genius, all powerful Russians who are behind it all and Trump is not an American product, not an accurate representation of the current state of the American empire, and not just a symptom of a bigger, underlying problem in American so-called civilization. Okay.
Putin, former KGB, is known to follow some of the global strategies called for by “The Foundations of Geopolitics”. One of the main strategies called out by the book is using disinformation to divide democratic countries internally, weakening and distracting from Russian power projection and consolidation of 'lost territory’s/sphere of influence.
Guy who knows espionage takes advantage of the worst American to divide USA internally and push away NATO. Not machiavellian genius, probably a lot more successful than anyone suspected because of said underlying issues.
From my PoV, Putin/FSB stirred the pot beginning in 2010 or so, setting up troll farms and disinformation propganda groups targeting US, UK, and other democracies. They put out all kinds of disinformation to divide and incite anger, latching on to what sticked (like anti-vax, ‘deep state’, brexit, economic woes, racism, etc). These were much more effective in the US and UK than say Ukraine or Baltic states, due to proximity and historical animosity.
Tldr, effective espionage that happened to find a weak spot, helped by narcissistic insiders. Not genius, just luck and taking advantage of existing cracks.
You’re right, Russia obviously had some pull but I don’t think this entire restructuring of America was done because of it, if anything it just accelerated the process. The amoral oligarchs that have politicians on their payroll, both local and foreign, had their cut of this whole thing and now even more so with Trump in power who only cares about the bag, no ideology behind it (from the tech bros at his party to Gulf leaders offering him billions), and now the country has been completely captured by them, and through the same policies that Russia would follow to weaken America. They colluded, basically, and using the current financial circumstances with China being basically a country living in the future, a global factory now turning into the global R&D, a financial global point of interest, Russia just did their part to accelerate the process that the American leaders themselves (I’m talking the billionaire class here, politicians are puppets, and because they don’t care about America, they’re amoral, inhuman global capitalists, they can live anywhere comfortably and would not be negatively affected by the collapse of the American empire but actually profit from it) green lighted.
Now, Biden was more aligned with the MIC and Israel, prioritizing the military side of the American empire, Trump is just there for the money so since leaders know he can be bought, they offer him everything in exchange for a piece of the American pie. This is why Netanyahu has flown to the White House personally, despite the small but still present risk he could be arrested because he’s an international criminal, like 6 times in a year! But he’s popular enough to enact these changes while his base, which is a considerable chunk of Americans, suck his dick and many rich folk who are “apolitical” support it through their silence simply don’t care. Now’s the time, basically. But if Americans were different people, better informed, more interested in policy (especially when it affects the whole world!) and with at least a semblance of a moral framework, this wouldn’t have happened. Well, the whole empire wouldn’t have happened if they were like that from the beginning but that’s a different convo, lol. 👍
Agreed on the acceleration, sorry if I didn’t state it that way.
FSB helped set some fires thinking it would distract and divide, probably never imagined it become the firestorm of chaos it grew into. More tinder of racism than anyone expected, the winds of late stage capitalism feeding the fires for its own benefit like you put it. The disdain for education and media literacy coming to roost as there was no metaphorical firestop.
Captain, I don’t have anything else to add, I just wanted to thank you for your informative posts and civility. 🙏
Trump and his family have gladly accepted Russian money and one of the world leaders he most admires is Putin because of the way he “handles” his political opposition, so they’re very much influenced by what Putin says, does and asks them to do.
Frankly both Putin and Trump can get in the sea.
Putin is actually intelligent, regardless of his morality (I know the man has a lot of innocent blood on his hands, not to the extent of American presidents but still, he might see Hell), Trump can smell it and, since intelligence is capacity and capacity is power, Trump “admires” him. But he was doing all his amoral hedonistic and grifty stuff way before he ever had a relationship with Russia, Russia (and the rest of the world too, why do you think they call Trump “country builder” in China, lol) is just happy he’s in power now and definitely helped him get there (to a smaller degree than reactionary talking points make it seem) and he was elected because enough people in the country are hateful morons, that’s it. And Russia has financed Trump, it’s not friendship, it’s just convenient for both sides…