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Trump is a political figure. His spokesmen are also.
I've said for a long time Trump is a realist. This is about strategic power. This is about military strength for sure. When you take a realist look at global power vs democratic ideology it makes sense that this action happened.
But the pitches being thrown are what confuse people and frankly they aren't great. Which is what I'm talking about here. Campaign promises are broken. Slogans make little sense. A lot of gas lighting is going on.
Trust the plan is all about trusting Trump. The trust the plan people seem to change their story to fit what Trump does next so I'm skeptical about their knowledge of said plan.
Are "leaders" only political figures when they're subject to elections? What about in countries where they dont even bother to have the pretense of elections?
pitches being thrown are what confuse people
I'm not confused, I also don't expect a play by play of classified information. So who's confused? Morons that can't extrapolate from incomplete information? Naives that think they know things the don't? Virtue signalers that'll find any reason to feel morally superior? Blackpillers who project their failures onto the world?
Campaign promises are broken.
Such as? Over what time horizon?
Slogans make little sense
To who?
Trust the plan is all about trusting Trump.
It's about trusting the apparatus who got Trump installed has more information than you do, and recognizing the trend of creative destruction and pulling off what the blackpillers, virtue signalers, and naives said was impossible.
The trust the plan people seem to change their story to fit what Trump does
That's not plan trusting, that's plan speculation.
No one talking to us is going to layout the plan, that'd be terrible opsec and render the plan worthless. All we can do is speculate on next phases and extrapolate what we do know... which is appropriate to do to illustrate how lacking in situational awareness morons/naives/blackpillers are.
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Yea... he's got it all figured out.
I dont care about the article and most takes are bad and ignore the real power struggles.
I just think many Trump fans are just as clueless and Trump's pitch that he's against regime change and that this isn't about that is a weak argument.
I'm also very skeptical about this regime change op going well. We will see. I'm not trusting Trump or this so called plan.
One crime org took out another one. It's all power struggles and has always been that. There is less pretense about it now and Trump's op does seem to get it in ways previous crime op leaders didn't.
On the plan. plan speculation is what is happening over and over. People are told to trust the plan. Really trust the planner is a better frame. Since like you say the plan isn't being communicated. And yeah, that would be dumb.
Just saying this attitude about people being fools for not getting it is pretty weak. I agree the neoliberal world view is niave. And condemning Trump but not Obama or Biden is hypocritical but if you opposed all of it and don't buy the current spin you aren't a fool. It is just spin.
I think I get why this happened. I think the marketing and spin is hard to justify. Hard to square. That's not dumb. The reason this action tool place is simple. And Trump doesn't play by the old rules. That's what the old guard still pretends to not get.
I'd also add that he's far from the only President to work more in the power approach. Just the first since WW2. It had to come back eventually.
Trump's pitch that he's against regime change
That's spin. Bush/Clinton/Obama style "Regime change wars" are the contrast, trillion dollar police action / nation building quagmires half a world away are the polar opposite of what's unfolding.
crime org
Worthless virtue signal
plan speculation is what is happening over and over
One is a response to the other, plan speculation is the counter to the presumption there is no plan or the plan is flawed. The former is ludicrous, the latter presupposes the unknowable.
trust the planner
Fair to a degree, though this is merely recognition of 2 facts.
- they have information than we
- the planning regime has changed thus they can't be judged on the results of the Bush/Clinton/Obama order
this attitude about people being fools for not getting it is pretty weak
They're fools for thinking they get it, the neutral position is simply to grab popcorn and enjoy the show.
the first since WW2
Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan
First and second took on the CIA, look how that worked out. CIA is the front door to the rest of the globe.
Reagan, fortunately survived, built up American power that was declining... collapsing the rival dujor. Though he never quite consolidated that power and therefore wasn't as transformative, but kept the fight alive.
Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan
Of those Nixon seemed to be the only realist to me. The one most like Trump in the way he approached international relations. Reagan and Kennedy were far more inclined to spreading "democracy" or free trade.
Trump is far more practical and clearly doesn't base his moves on spreading democracy. I prefer that to the status quo for sure.
Bottom line though is that all non-realist seem to just making justification and all seem hypocritical to me.
It is interesting to watch and to see just how clueless most are even after 10 years of Trump on the stage. He's not that complicated.
He's not really in an ideological camp. He is practical and influenced by those around him. V2 is more interesting than V1. Clearly lessons were learned.
I just think power is gonna shift and he's gonna get checked in their next few years. There's an over-confidence.
Nixon seemed to be the only realist to me.
I'd agree in that I think he was the most consequential
not really in an ideological camp
Realist/Non-realist are ideological camps, Platonic vs. Aristotelian... there's a bi-polarity across everything. Call it left-right good-evil dark-light yin-yang, there is ideological demarcation in all things.
V2 is more interesting than V1. Clearly lessons were learned.
For conversational purposes with normies we can pretend there is a V1 and V2, but power didn't necessarily change hands just because we were told there was an election with a 4 year half-time show. The Biden presidency couldn't be more conclusively fake even if they declassified it and the JSOC literally told us so.
power is gonna shift
That's a given, pendulum swings, universe expands and contracts yadayada...
in their next few years
Power doesn't shift that quickly historically, and this is the presumption that Trump the man is the center of power. Governments vs. Shadow Governments changing seats usually takes a generation or more. Things have accelerated with technology, but that sword can cut both ways.
There's an over-confidence.
If they know things we don't, which we know they do, it's more likely that confidence is warranted and is historically a consolidation of power, not the end.
FWIW personally I'm very neutral. I know I don't know what they know. I know this is all spin and pretty much a waste of time.
My comments about the crime org are mostly framing it to NOT be this stupid spiritual / non-logical belief democratic norms or anything other than power. The world order has been shifting for a while. The post ww2 order is all but dead. I don't grieve for it. But I'm also not cheering on the new thing. Doesn't matter if I do or don't. I have zero impact on it. But I do like to have an idea where things are going so I can affect my personal situation in the right direction.
I have no faith in Trump or the powers behind him. Nor do I have any in those that are opposing him.
I'm also not cheering on the new thing ... I do like to have an idea where things are going
Let's come up with a framework then to think about that...
Is Bitcoin party to destruction of the old thing?
If yes, planners have merit, you can cheer for destruction of the old thing.
If no, then why is Bitcoin at all important?
Is Bitcoin a party to the construction of the new thing?
If yes, then its simple, trust the plan.
If no, is it at least a forcing function for thew thing to be at least somewhat better than the old thing?
"political figures" have nothing to do with it, if you think this is political you're really behind the times, trapped in a mental model of a world that doesn't exist.
What's happening aren't campaign promises, these are military and intelligence operations.