Biden allows American missiles to be launched into Russia proper and thus meets the conditions for war with Russia.
Trump is completely silent.
Biden pardons his money laundering son.
Trump immediately protests.
I don’t know about you, but I would take this as a sign that one of those was pre-arranged between the two.
I think I figured out Trump's perspective. What he wants is for the America to be feared of again. If you listen to his speeches, he basically says it all. Chinese, Mexicans, EU etc. are all taking advantage of America, he will turn it around, show them who the boss is and make them fear America, thus helping America to rebuild internally. It is so simple that it explains large part of his motivations and probably significant part of motivation of the people who arranged for him to win this time.
Well, America is indeed feared, the way a retard with a loaded gun is feared. It's just not respected.
Regardless, I think that is how Trump sees things, and it even explains why he placed lunatic John Bolton close to the top; he wanted an obvious madman to frighten people, which seems to be where he feels in a comfortable position for further negotiations.
I can see how someone in America might think that would work with the Russians, based on their own delusions. However, they are wrong. When Russians think they are in danger, they are likely to deal with it regardless of the consequences.
Well, while Trump himself indeed was rather silent, Donald Trump Jr did tweet about it immediately:
https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1858242971373637784
Realistically, anything that Trump himself says about this before his term would weaken his position and limit his options later.
Well, it's not certain that he was informed about the deal, if one existed.
All that projection of hopes for the future into Trump is unhealthy, and seems to indicate that people find the alternative (civil war) so unappealing, that they are quite willing to part with reality in order to avoid it. Again, the salesmen nation is trying to change reality.
"Well, it's not certain that he was informed about the deal, if one existed."
This is a very clear conclusion.
It is unusual that America seeks the destruction of Germany's economy, energetics and industry, as it consistently fails to react to its collapse. It is evident that the main directions of unfolding events are planned and insisted upon. Most likely, the deep state presented Trump with projections of the economic and social situation America will face in 5-10 years if it does not intervene now and set back all its competitors. The wildcard remains Elon Musk and his attitudes to freedom of speech and proper, ethical behavior.
Nothing in these events is coincidental anymore; everything is being cultivated and will escalate as needed to serve America’s interests.
The U.S. will take advantage of the opportunity to profit from arming Europe, but this is not a sustainable source of income that would distance it from China's status.
I believe it is reasonable to prepare for a two-week stay indoors.
"I believe it is reasonable to prepare for a two-week stay indoors." – I think the reason why the Russians haven't repeated the Oreshnik strike must have been diplomacy; someone asked them for a time-out in order to be able to evaluate the situation properly, and they obliged. However, I think no good will come out of this.
I see no real desire for peace in the West; only a desire to buy time for Ukraine which is losing badly, so that it could recuperate and continue war against Russia on more advantageous terms. Basically, if the Russians agree, the West will repeat the Minsk accords deceit. If they disagree, the West will use nuclear weapons in order to make the Russians stop.
What will happen, if the conflict in Ukraine gets frozen along the current front line, we can see from the events in Syria where Al Qaida spinned-off HTS jihadists re-emerged in Idlib while being backed by Turkey and Israel. It was a great mistake made by Putin on the request of Erdogan to broker a peace deal so Russians and Syrian army don’t finish off terrorist scumbags in Idlib.
"It was a great mistake made by Putin on the request of Erdogan to broker a peace deal so Russians and Syrian army don’t finish off terrorist scumbags in Idlib." – It would have required the kind of escalation Putin was not ready for at that time; he would have had to destroy the American base in Syria, and aggravate Russia-Turkey relationship instead of improve it, and possibly enter a hot war with America before that looked inevitable. The up-side of that decision would have been negligible in comparison to the down-side.
It's similar to the situation in Donbas. Sure, you can argue that lots of Russians died there because of Putin's decision to take it easy and explore every diplomatic venue before entering into an armed conflict. However, he did the math and decided that the price of him entering too late is tens of thousands dead, and the price of him entering too early could be billions dead. He knows that the last option, the one he's trying to avoid, is nuclear war. When that happens, nobody would cheer him for saving ten thousand Russians in Donbas by killing the world. From his perspective, if nuclear war is inevitable, well, it's inevitable. But he will try every alternative first.
Unfortunately, this creates the impression in the West that they can get away with all kinds of stuff because he's reluctant to escalate, and it encourages them. He's trying to play a rational, conservative game with wild animals that thrive on aggression and adrenaline burst of power.
OK, let’s assume that Trump supports Biden in provoking a nuclear exchange with Russia. What does he get from that? I thought he was all about getting into Ora… pardon Oval Office and succeeding Pampers Joe? 🤔 Or it means Biden will let Trump finish the job? Maybe it’s for the best that nuclear war happens at last in comparison to the other things Satan’s whores are dragging us through the mud here and only thing that is better if that happens on Trump’s watch is buying someone time to finish with whatever one is supposed to do before that?
It's hard to even guess. I have two possible explanations. One, Trump is thinking to apply his "art of the deal" and intentionally aggravate things first, then make a small compromise and pretend to be reasonable. Basically, he's doing a "Christmass discount", where you first raise the prices by 75%, then after a week you reduce them by 30% and say it's a discount.
Explanation two, he made a compromise with the people who are actually in power, whereby they don't kill him or his family, they don't put him in jail, and instead allow him to win the elections and take office, but he agrees to certain terms.
Probably both.
That would mean that there won’t be poking Russians by striking NATO missiles into Russia proper until Trump assumes the office or that is not necessarily so?
It's hard to say. The only thing that seems obvious is that the people in actual power no longer see Trump as a threat, and that's likely because he agreed to do everything they wanted.