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There are more layers to it.
Trump is a scape goat https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/peter-thiel-on-rene-girard and mad man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
The Ukraine army was directed by the US https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html
and military intelligence was run by the CIA since 2014 (in German) https://feddit.org/post/28059198 .
Attacking deep into Russia must have led to a full escalation of the war. Everything would have been American but the nationality of the soldiers.
The objective of the US is more likely to just keep Europe and Russia in a conflict, along old strategic considerations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard :
I don't think that the US are stupid and run by an idiot. They are flooding the zone with gossip while the elite works on their geopolitical objectives.
The elites of the EU are deeply involved in this. Iraq war, even Syria and Libya, those were illegal and the EU kept silent.
The conflict with Russia was decades in the making. Putin asked for a joined economic zone in 2001 and by 2008 his speech at the Munich security conference suggests that tensions were rising. We still don't know why approachment stopped. An independent EU would have educated its population about it because it would have made us the most powerful political entity on earth.
They are, they are destroying their own power in every way, they are losing allies left and right, and Trump is ruining US trade (USA has been using trade as leverage internationally for decades) and destroying both the petro dollar and the dollar as the global reserve currency, and finally slowing down the US economy do China will surpass them faster. So the current administration is undermining US power in every way possible. And everything they do is idiotic. The secret genius is a myth.
Have you seen that Peter Thiel, the man behind Musk and JD Vance, believes that the masses need a scape goat?
Compared to Iraq, the US don't behave more reckless. It's just the communication that has changed. Instead of having a moral justification, people blame each other.
The chemical weapons were a lie. People still accepted the war.
The difference to now is that the internet reveals all lies. The Iraq war wouldn't be possible today.
The US have adapted their population management to the new constraints of the internet. They don't rely on morality anymore.
For politicians, nothing changes. The cover stories and morality was never part of their considerations. It has always been the power of the US, and that hasn't changed much.
The petro dollar was not sustainable. It worked with Japan and Germany who are friendly and don't threaten economic war and keep holding the bonds. China created BRICS and a global basket currency. The EU is more dangerous on paper, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lys%C3%A9e_Treaty controversy, it's a US creation.
Tariffs are the other option to manage the US economy, instead of the trade deficit. To not give China back all their dollars, devaluating the Dollar is even rational. But it's difficult to communicate. A mad Trump is the solution.
The Chinese economy is supposed to not matter because China, and Russia, is going to be isolated. The strategy is called decoupling. The oil from Iran is the start. I am worried that that doesn't work because then the US only has the nuclear option.
Peter "the antichrist ist coming" Thiel. Sounds more like an unhinged conspiracy theorist than some smart mastermind.
The internet has existed back then, too. One might even argue it was a better internet, because all those "social media" propaganda mills were still in their infancy, or didn't even exist yet. If the change of the internet has done anything compared to back then, then it has made it easier to spread lies to the masses.
I thought so, too but the theories match too much on Trump. They may be unhinged but I think they are implemented.
I would agree
The internet also spreads the truth. The art is to let people read the truth without them recognizing it among lies.
My impression is that the US have mastered that art.