I just don’t understand what the goal here is. It seems like everything this administration does is with the purpose of offending or alienating our allies. Even if you believe in the whole “America First,” how could that possibly be achieved by pushing away every other country except for maybe Russia or China.
My theory is that there is no goal. It’s just bullying for the sake of bullying.
Putin holds the US responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wants to see the US collapse. How would you collapse the US? You’d divide the country against each other so neither side (red/blue, both politicians and civilians] trusted the other. You’d alienate all their allies. You’d make the people distrustful of experts, of science, of news media. You’d sow distrust of the government, then make the government unstable. You’d destabilize the financial market. It should take a lot of subtle effort at the start, but once there’s momentum it gets a lot easier.
If you look at things from the point of view that Trump is a Russian asset, it makes a lot more sense.
Imagine that your level of self-confidence is zero. You feel utterly powerless. You have no control of anything. No choices you make are your own.
How do you prove - to the world and to yourself - that you are in control, that you are powerful? You make the worst decisions possible.
Wait, what? What does that accomplish?
See, if you were to make a good decision, how does anyone know it was your decision? If you make a good decision, you’re just “doing what you’re supposed to.” You’re “doing what other people want you to do.” By making decisions that nobody wants you to make, you are most definitely “in control.” Those worst decisions are yours, and nobody else’s.
Bad decisions are a demonstration of power, to the world and to themselves. And every time those bad decisions are criticized without any real consequence, that power is reinforced. The criticism is part of the power play.
They can do anything they want, and they prove it every day by making the worst decisions.
I just don’t understand what the goal here is. It seems like everything this administration does is with the purpose of offending or alienating our allies. Even if you believe in the whole “America First,” how could that possibly be achieved by pushing away every other country except for maybe Russia or China.
My theory is that there is no goal. It’s just bullying for the sake of bullying.
THEY ARE RUSSIAN ASSETS!
end of story
GOP politics have been firmly in the area of “just say something inflammatory for the sound bite” for a long time now.
There is no strategy other than being a bully, which tragically seems to play very well to their base.
It’s acting entirely in the moment. It’s an ideologically vapid approach that is the realm of the pure grifter.
Putin holds the US responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wants to see the US collapse. How would you collapse the US? You’d divide the country against each other so neither side (red/blue, both politicians and civilians] trusted the other. You’d alienate all their allies. You’d make the people distrustful of experts, of science, of news media. You’d sow distrust of the government, then make the government unstable. You’d destabilize the financial market. It should take a lot of subtle effort at the start, but once there’s momentum it gets a lot easier.
If you look at things from the point of view that Trump is a Russian asset, it makes a lot more sense.
Ah yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Imagine that your level of self-confidence is zero. You feel utterly powerless. You have no control of anything. No choices you make are your own.
How do you prove - to the world and to yourself - that you are in control, that you are powerful? You make the worst decisions possible.
Wait, what? What does that accomplish?
See, if you were to make a good decision, how does anyone know it was your decision? If you make a good decision, you’re just “doing what you’re supposed to.” You’re “doing what other people want you to do.” By making decisions that nobody wants you to make, you are most definitely “in control.” Those worst decisions are yours, and nobody else’s.
Bad decisions are a demonstration of power, to the world and to themselves. And every time those bad decisions are criticized without any real consequence, that power is reinforced. The criticism is part of the power play.
They can do anything they want, and they prove it every day by making the worst decisions.
Hey you’re under selling Trmp’s allies, remember rocket Man sent him a VERY nice letter that one time or some shit…