Trump blustering out another incomprehensible,
threatening, ambiguous tweet launching another cold war with Russia?
Not so fast. Remember, Putin is the fellow who
Trump owes his victory in the United States.
If instead of assuming that each is advancing their
peoples stature with their aggressive nuclear policy, assume for a moment that
each other's sole mutually agreed upon policy is to simply accumulate unimaginable
personal wealth and power.
Their entire country means absolutely nothing
to them. They don't care about immigrants, walls, Syria, lebensraum, swamps, NATO,
healthcare, or the future--except as a means of helping each other enrich
himself using their positions of political power driven by their people’s emotions.
Each ostensibly threatens the other. The
populace shrinks back in horror of apocalyptic nuclear hell. Then, just before
new elections--breakthrough! Putin signs comprehensive weapons control and
non-aggression pact with the West.
The
populace swoons! The alt-reich shouts that Trump was the great peacemaker! He
wins by a landslide.
Add a similar ploy with China with trade
agreements and perhaps select European capitals, whose only common denominator
is that each is run by a far-right plutocrat willing to play along with the
game of manipulating public opinion to aggrandize themselves and each other.
The first ever trans-national oligarchy. Now
everything is clear. The country's people are slowly ground down for personal
wealth never before seen on the planet. Heil Trump!
