• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You’re also blind if you just say “America bad” at every opportunity.

    It’s shooting fish in a barrel. You don’t need to aim to carefully when you’ve got a target rich environment.

    No, many of the things he’s doing are absolutely not in the interest of the billionaire class

    Its not in the best long term interests of the country. But then neither is having a billionaire class to begin with. Trump’s looting various cash-rich institutions and easily extorted organizations and individuals for the benefit of his cronies. That’s necessarily bad for the targets of exploitation and good for his in-group, however you might project their futures over the long term.

    And yes, he’s serving some of them, particularly Peter Thiel. But he’s mostly serving Putin and himself.

    Nobody in Russia, least of all Vladimir Putin, is well-served by the US continuing to arm and instigate conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. And yet that’s exactly what our foreign services continue to do. You can trace this right back to 2018, when Trump shoveled out a bunch of anti-aircraft missile systems and anti-tank weapons to Ukrainian Nationalists.

    Trump’s firmly in the pocket of the Military Industrial Complex. And that occasionally breaks for or against Russia, depending on who is buying. But it is always and forever a policy that favors more international conflicts and more arms sales because US exports of weapons is a GOP moneymaker.

    And even Hillary isn’t the devil incarnate you think she is.

    Hillary and Trump were friends. They’ve been political allies and social circle buddies since the 1990s. She egged him on to run in 2016 because she thought he’d be her cat’s paw.

    If you hate Trump, you should despise Hillary.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      the US continuing to … instigate conflicts between Russia and Ukraine.

      You’re kidding, right? Your bias is showing. Right here.