If nothing else can be learned from Trump attempting to “broker“ an end to Putin’s mass homicide on his Ukrainian neighbor, it is this: he is a deeply conflicted, bipolar man who changes his “values” more than a new mother changes her baby’s diapers.
When it comes to Trump’s beefs, it’s “fight, fight, fight!” When it comes to anyone else’s beefs, including the vast majority of Americans who are being run over by big government, wall street industrialists, and technocrats , it’s “surrender, surrender, surrender!”
If you cross Trump, he will cancel you, attack you from every single side, sue you into bankruptcy, and spit on your grave for a good measure. He calls this “peace through strength.” He is the most vengeful president in history. But when it comes to everyone else, they’re on their own.
If the person or company or upper elite class or entire country (such as Russia with 4,309 nuclear warheads) attacking you is an ally of Trump, though he might help you for a few months for optics, in the end, he will tell you that you need to lay down your weapons, surrender, and give the murderous thugs attacking you what they want—you know, in the name of “peace.”
If they want your jobs, give them your jobs. If they want your land, give them your land. If they want the entire residential housing market, give it to them. if they want to keep all of their massive profits due to their massive tax breaks Trump has given them and not “trickle down” any to you, let them keep them. If they want to indoctrinate your kids in AI and make them technology slaves, give them your kids. If they want to take over your city and turn it into a massive TSA checkpoint, give them your city.
And if some geopolitically ambitious, land grabbing, power mad, narcissistic, megalomaniac, despotic monster wants to rob you of your coal mines, steel factories, natural resources, and millions of citizens who power them, by all means get down on your hands and knees, lick his boots, and give him what he wants.
Don’t “fight, fight, fight!” for your dignity, your freedom, your quality of life, your country, and your child’s future. Don’t “stand firm until the end.” Instead, be a good comrade and give the murderous tyrant thugs what they want. Because that’s what good comrades do.
But chin up! If you are willing to roll over and submit your life to murderous thug authoritarians, then you will be granted “peace” by the Great Trump and his fellow great tyrant authoritarians. You won’t have a penny to your name or a pot to piss in, you will have less dignity than a stray dog, but you will have “peace”—at least in terms of the “freedom” to stand in line for food rations without fear of being ruthlessly gunned down by government stormtroopers.
Some people might say I’m exaggerating, but this is not exaggeration, this is the reality of the “Brave New World“ we live in under the insatiable authoritarians and narcissistic psychopaths around the world. Only they get to “fight” in defense of themselves. Everyone else must surrender, including Zelenskyy, and anyone who gets in their way.
Alas, if it wasn’t clear before, it is 100% clear now in light of Trump‘s demand that Zelenskyy surrender his country to the murderous thug Putin, “peace through strength” is nothing but an empty slogan intended to brainwash people into thinking that they are supporting a noble hero that stands for them, whereas in fact they are supporting despots who are working day and night to enslave and destroy them.
Of course you’re free to believe whatever you want. But I hope you don’t believe that a country run by an authoritarian regime in possession of 4,309 active nuclear warheads is truly “threatened“ by little ol’ Ukraine or the “eastern expansion of NATO.” If you bought those lies, I’ve got a high-rise condo built on a bed of sand to sell you down in Florida. And yes, I will take payments.