How can you call this a blunder? It's clearly the intented result of the most successful long-term intelligence operation since the Renaissance. I don't understand how any serious person, aware of the trajectory of Trump's "business" career, aware of his statements and actions the first time in office, aware of his behavior and associate…
How can you call this a blunder? It's clearly the intented result of the most successful long-term intelligence operation since the Renaissance. I don't understand how any serious person, aware of the trajectory of Trump's "business" career, aware of his statements and actions the first time in office, aware of his behavior and associates in the interregunum, and now the events of the past few weeks, can possibly conclude other than that Trump is and has been a defacto Russian asset, successfully run by Russian intelligence for decades. The degree to which he fully understands this--whether he is a Fuchs or Philby, or more a low-IQ fellow traveller chasing the grift -- that may be open to question.
For America, perhaps, Munich was a blunder... but the actual American blunder was failing to protect itself from MAGA and Trump. But as to Trump et al, whether witting or half-witting, the Trump regime's actions are not blunders. They are planned and intentional. And they have succeeded. Blunder?
If this was a blunder, it would have been a blunder had Hitler been able to replace Winston Churchill with Edward Mosely, or FDR with Lincoln Rockwell.
No, just Foetens cloaca in stercus fovea (a stinking sewer in a dung pit). And Sandberg’s The People, Yes!— what fools we have been to imagine, that merely because our little Republic, on a few statistical long tail throws of the dice, threw up one or two leaders like Washington and Lincoln, we were somehow an exception to the general pattern of history. Which is the dismal record of a continual uninterrupted sequence of cruelty, venality, cupidity, viciousness, avarice, and stupidity. Above all, cruelty.. and stupidity.
Oh, yes, pretense and mendacity. An example of which here we have, here: me—a posturing pretender to being a Latinist, but who in reality only knows what smatterings of Latin that have leaked into his circus of competence from all the books and poems he bumped into, amplified and hopefully corrected through Google Translate.
I am sure you, unlike me, did not have to avail yourself of such a crutch!
I came here to say more or less the same thing. I wasn't as sure about him being a Russian agent. I was figuring it was more that they were kindred spirits. In Putin's moral universe, Ukraine has a duty to submit to him as a strong man, and Trump lives in that same moral universe. It sounds like you've read more about Trump's history than I have, so I probably need to educate myself.
What amazes me — or did, at one time— is not that a person like Trump, and the same sort of person that seems to gather around him the way clouds of fruit flies show up around rotting fruit, would betray his country, but that the majority of Americans who truly believe themselves to be patriots would not only tolerate but actually embrace his actions. And are now even happy to have us change sides.
As I grow older my take on human nature has changed from surprise at such behavior on the part of my fellow citizens to surprise when they fail to act this way. Sic cadit in monte splendida civitas
How can you call this a blunder? It's clearly the intented result of the most successful long-term intelligence operation since the Renaissance. I don't understand how any serious person, aware of the trajectory of Trump's "business" career, aware of his statements and actions the first time in office, aware of his behavior and associates in the interregunum, and now the events of the past few weeks, can possibly conclude other than that Trump is and has been a defacto Russian asset, successfully run by Russian intelligence for decades. The degree to which he fully understands this--whether he is a Fuchs or Philby, or more a low-IQ fellow traveller chasing the grift -- that may be open to question.
For America, perhaps, Munich was a blunder... but the actual American blunder was failing to protect itself from MAGA and Trump. But as to Trump et al, whether witting or half-witting, the Trump regime's actions are not blunders. They are planned and intentional. And they have succeeded. Blunder?
If this was a blunder, it would have been a blunder had Hitler been able to replace Winston Churchill with Edward Mosely, or FDR with Lincoln Rockwell.
No, just Foetens cloaca in stercus fovea (a stinking sewer in a dung pit). And Sandberg’s The People, Yes!— what fools we have been to imagine, that merely because our little Republic, on a few statistical long tail throws of the dice, threw up one or two leaders like Washington and Lincoln, we were somehow an exception to the general pattern of history. Which is the dismal record of a continual uninterrupted sequence of cruelty, venality, cupidity, viciousness, avarice, and stupidity. Above all, cruelty.. and stupidity.
Oh, yes, pretense and mendacity. An example of which here we have, here: me—a posturing pretender to being a Latinist, but who in reality only knows what smatterings of Latin that have leaked into his circus of competence from all the books and poems he bumped into, amplified and hopefully corrected through Google Translate.
I am sure you, unlike me, did not have to avail yourself of such a crutch!
I came here to say more or less the same thing. I wasn't as sure about him being a Russian agent. I was figuring it was more that they were kindred spirits. In Putin's moral universe, Ukraine has a duty to submit to him as a strong man, and Trump lives in that same moral universe. It sounds like you've read more about Trump's history than I have, so I probably need to educate myself.
What amazes me — or did, at one time— is not that a person like Trump, and the same sort of person that seems to gather around him the way clouds of fruit flies show up around rotting fruit, would betray his country, but that the majority of Americans who truly believe themselves to be patriots would not only tolerate but actually embrace his actions. And are now even happy to have us change sides.
As I grow older my take on human nature has changed from surprise at such behavior on the part of my fellow citizens to surprise when they fail to act this way. Sic cadit in monte splendida civitas
Not so much the "shining city on hill" anymore, is it?