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So let me get this straight:
Trump and Putin are basically best buds
Russia is providing Iran with drones
So this is just one big circle jerk war?
Bonus connection:
Trump/Vance wants Orban to win so Vance goes to Hungary to stump for him.
Orban is a Russian puppet trying to undermine the EU.
Netanyahu and Orban are best buds, Orban says he would leave the ICC when he wins the election
Orban reached out to Iran in 2024 offering aid, raising questions about current ties.
I remember seeing the new, prequel trilogy as a kid, and thinking... the over arching political plot here fundamentally relies on too many people being just too naive and stupid for this to be believable.
Welp.
i remember seeing this as a kid and comparing it to the gorbachev and the fall of the ussr and the how these similarities echo through most of history and were perhaps used as inspiration of the plot and the physchology of the id and ego and whether freud was right and the greater implications this had for not just psychology but geopolitical tensions through out the life i was only getting to begin to experience
I must have been a bit younger than you when the movies came out, lol.
Yes, and a key observation might be: the oligarchy being discussed more and more in the US is not constrained to the US. There is (in a practical sense, not an official one) a single world government controlled entirely by the rich who are currently circle-jerking.
You're talking aout the ruling class, basically. Around their world their class interests generally align, so they act as one.
Sometimes the ruling class get into intra-class conflict - factions form or some members try to steal each other's stolen wealth, but they'll usually stop when it begins to threaten the interests of their class as a whole. See: every single war. Maybe WW1 they didn't stop in time.
If Russia was not currently on day fucking 1000 or w/e of its 3 day military operation, Putin would be laughing so hard that it might kill him.
Yeah, Trump somehow managed to get cucked by both Putin and Netanyahu.
Oh right, that somehow is raping and murdering kids alongside his best pal Epstein, who seems to have essentially been a mutual intelligence 'asset' of the CIA, Mossad, and the FSB.
Woops, went in to clean up the deep state, but we sent for the job the deep state's dumbest soldier.
If I could put my tinfoil hat on for just a moment, i would say an indefinite war was the intent. If you have an unruly populace, what better place than the front lines to send them? The gulag? Nah, they aren't producing anything while sitting in a prison. Meanwhile, the front lines are wearing down an enemy populace, and if they are killed there, great. One less dissident to worry about. It's also a great way to consolidate even more power, if those dissidents happen to be part of the oligarchy who grew a conscience.
But this tinfoil theory would imply he's playing 4D chess out there, and i don't think there's any evidence to support that. Even if it's a convenient way to remove dissidents, and likely being done to a certain extent, i would surmise this extended war effort is due to plain incompetence and decades of greed surfacing and not the main objective. Slava Ukraini ✊🏻
My next tinfoil hat theory is that this assumes Iran a willing participant in this circle jerk war. Seeing how Iran came out on top in that brief crease fire deal, it could be possible that targets hit so far were considered "soft targets". Now I'm not so callous to say a school full of children is a soft target, but with the players currently involved, i wouldn't put it past them to purposefully hit civilian targets to drum up recruitment for the other side, to give yourself more hard targets to hit. And any major attack against a hard target could be seen as letting one in to not give away the game at hand. Even the initial attack against the old leadership could be seen as letting the new leadership in, but that's so much tinfoil, my fillings are starting to buzz.
There would have to be an investigation into the targeting choices to try and figure out if that's what's really going on, in which under a certain threshold and i would classify those as deliberate.
Now i will fully admit that I'm talking out of my ass here as i haven't really been closely following Operation Epstein Fury. But there are certainly some news pieces recently that lead me to suspect something fucky is going on in the background, even if it turns out it's just what we already know: market manipulation and gambling on war.
What you are describing is not really tinfoil hat.
You are basically describing the poltical theory of oligarchical collectivism, as outlined by Emmanuel Goldstein, in 1984.
Go read 1984 again.
The entire operating concept of the forever war between Oceania, EastAsia and Eurasia is that they all throw their economic might into never ending wars, to solve the capitalist problem of overproduction, and also simultaneously create totalitarian police states that keep the proles under control, to keep the oligarchs comfy and in power.
Like the entire genre of cyberpunk... its a 'this was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual' situation.
You're right, I should go read 1984 again, lol.
At this point I would suggest grabbing a physical or local digital copy, before it becomes a thoughtcrime.
Now closer to day 2000 than 1000 lol
Right, yeah, it just hit 1500, didn't it.
sigh
What's the US's biggest export ? Oh yeah, weapons.
Don't forget the easing of Russian sanctions because of the oil issues, so Russia is making money from this.
its more than likely thats why he attacked iran, to conveniently give russian sanctions a reprieve.
I feel like that was a side benefit to getting a reprieve from the Epstein files.