• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    This American agrees with them. Can China please start being as “evil” as our media makes them out to be. We could really use some of those paid protesters and Chinese agents right about now. I’d really appreciate to be paid for what I’m already doing. My rent is due. Please Xi!

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      Compromised by the same Imperialist oligarchs that have always controlled the US? I wouldn’t call it “compromised”. I’d call it America as usual with some extra crazy on top.

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      Compromised, and sitting on a significant stockpile of nuclear weapons. He’s also highly suggestible, inconsistent and easily provoked.

      Combined with the amount of power ceded to the US executive branch since Reagan means that dumpy diaper’s whims can cause significant harm before either of the other two branches can even be bothered to start thinking about stopping it.

      In the end, missiles travel faster than judges, let alone congress.

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      10 hours ago

      the only thing is that turmp is practically owned by putin, so I don’t know how that changes things.

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        To be fair, he’s not owned entirely by putin. He’s the live grenade that Russia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are fighting for control over

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        If Trump was Putin’s puppet, he wouldn’t TACO out of his disputes with Europe. Greenland wouldn’t be in Danish hands. Hell, Putin’s puppet might even want to join the war in Ukraine on Russia’s side.

        The only person Trump cares about is Trump. The best Putin can hope for is that Trump destroys a bunch of shit indiscriminately, which he is doing quite well. Some of the destroyed shit could be Russian assets, which Russia will have to endure.

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          No one said he was a good puppet.

          He listens to what Putin tells him to do, mishears most of it, misunderstands most of what’s left, and in five minutes has forgotten most of what was left after that, and tries to turn whatever remains into a scam that’ll benefit him.

          But, inasmuch as he is able to want to do something that doesn’t directly and immediately benefit him personally, he tries to be a good puppet, at least when he remembers the blackmail material the ex-KGB bastard has on him.

          He’s just bad at it, as he is at everything else except at avoiding paying his bills.

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    Well, yeah, Putin is a psychopath, but he is smart, and can be expected to behave in a relatively predictable manner. Trump is just a poop-flinging ape.

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    Wow, kudos to Spain to understanding this. It’s hard to rank order between Putin and Trump, considering Putin is clearly pulling the strings.

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    Thing is, we got here because of the people pushing right wing nationalist attitudes. Russia is a big exporter of that kind of info via troll farms. China is probably second. While the US has been a growing shitshow for a while and it didn’t take too much effort, there was (and is) a ton of Russian interference deliberately destabilizing the West. The USIC and media have reported on it repeatedly, this isn’t some conspiracy. Everything from the initial Mueller investigation to the killing of Kirk has revealed outside influence pushing the US towards far right extremes via various media.

    So yeah, trump is a big threat, but the countries that helped put him in place are every bit as dangerous. Putin is doing everything he can to break up NATO via distrust of the US, wrecking the US economy by pulling money into wars in Ukraine and Iran, and Putin’s pulling that shitheel fool trump deeper into strangling the world economy via oil costs which will further wreck the US economy by turning economic and political allies against us. Trump is such a sucker he’s being played like a two year old with an oreo cookie waved in front of him. Worse, trump and or his cronies think they’re clever by timing stock bets and making millions of their fuckery.