I was slightly offline in the last few days since I was on a water fast and I was taking it easy, and also because my brain wasn’t really working. 🙂 So, what do we have…

I won’t comment much on Trump’s actions, meaning, his approval of a gargantuan spending bill and pretending that the Epstein list doesn’t really exist and nothing is going on there. The reason why I won’t comment is because I live in an American-controlled country and I don’t want to get disappeared like Gonzalo Lira. The word is that the food in black ops sites is not up to my normal standards, and I would rather not try it.

However, it’s only expected. The fact that Trump is a better person than the depraved Hillary Clinton, or the senile and immensely corrupt Biden, doesn’t mean he’s actually good, or that he can do anything. People on the American right have been putting too much faith in him, and with no reason, since, first of all, the system of government in America is designed to oppose a leader who tries to run things in a dictatorial manner, which means he needs a deep support structure, and all structures there are profoundly corrupt. Nothing can be done to save America; it’s a futile and desperate effort, and since the implications are terrible, people are very unwilling to accept the facts. The facts, however, don’t care whether you accept them or not.

On the other side, the BRICS members are acting like scared sheep, trying not to get into any kind of conflict with America but still have a freedom from it. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work that way. If you want freedom from someone who is ready to use violence to keep you enslaved, your choice is between slavery and open conflict. America is making it clear that any kind of grey zone between the two is impossible. Putin is trying very hard to keep the conflict constrained, but this is a doomed effort, since the enemies won’t allow it, and as they lose, they will escalate. Also, the Russians are very much done with this, unlike their elites which are more-less all completely westernized, and if Putin doesn’t want to do this war properly, his support structure within Russia will collapse. After all, he’s been consistently proven wrong at every move since 2014. You can interpret this as a strategy of buying time for Russia to wean itself from the Western financial and industrial infrastructure gradually, but it remains the fact that he himself had to admit that things would have been better had he entered Ukraine fully in 2014. His reluctance to put the hammer down encouraged the enemies to escalate to the point where the dead are already counted in millions. The Americans have done a good job convincing everyone of two things: that crossing any of their “red lines” means instant doomsday, and using nuclear weapons in war means instant doomsday – regardless of the fact that they themselves used them twice and nothing happened. American deterrence is therefore working excellently. Russian deterrence, unfortunately, isn’t, and it’s all Putin’s fault. He’s done a very good job of making the world unafraid of Russia, probably because he’s trying to become an orthodox saint after he dies. One may say that, by trying so hard not to start a nuclear war, he’s actually making it inevitable. However, I would disagree. It became inevitable a long time ago, when the fall of America became inevitable. They are a narcissist civilization and they won’t go quietly into the night.