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What is Their End Game?? [1]

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Date: 2025-04-03

Why is the Orange Menace intent on: dismantling the federal government,

restructuring the entire world economic order,

bringing the the US into recession or depression,

wiping out retirement income security for millions,

undermining scientific discovery,

destroying the entire public health infrastructure,

and so much more?

And..why is the Republican party content to go along with it?

I mean seriously, what is their end game?

I have theories, but would love to hear what others might think.

Decided to edit this into the story:

So here’s what I think: Kleptocracy - Trump is moving to Kleptocracy in the most effective way it can in a capitalist democracy.

Putin’s kleptocracy was accomplished through taking the assets owned by the Russian state by selling them off to oligarch friends for a fraction of their worth. Putin took a cut of every transaction and ongoing interest in the industries. What was left for the Russian treasury was punnies on the dollar (or ruble).

Putin and the Oligarchs have an ongoing symbiotic relationship: Putin continues to make them fabulously wealthy, and the oligarchs agree to keep him in power.

The Russian people were stolen from BIGLY, and the theft continues.

How do you follow this model in a capitalist democracy?

You destroy the federal government infrastructure and then claim private industry can do it better. You give government contracts on everything to the most loyal of the oligarchs or those pledging loyalty, even if they aren’t billionaires (yet).

You use capitalism, tariff waivers and your bully pulpit to pick the winners and losers in business to maintain the symbiotic relationship, all while the American people get fewer services at a higher price.

In the meantime, Trump carves the world up taking North and South America, leaving Eastern Europe, west and southwest Asia for Putin, and China gets the Far East. Maybe Africa’s vast mineral assets get equally divided up (or so Trump believes). I’m not sure what the plan is for western Europe.

Trump is naive to think he can survive in equilibrium in this scenario.

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