but it’s because at this point he’s gotten what he can out of Trump succeeding. Putin never loses sight of his goals and in this case he’s been busy undermining the Western countries. He has the UK tied up with Brexit, and Macron dealing with France’s version of the violent Alt Right and us busy with the Trump fallout. We can’t help but notice that all three countries are busy with internal Alt Right groups rising up to destroy traditional government and societal institutions. And so far succeeding, at least to the point of starting so many fires that the leadership is kept too busy having to deal with these fires.
Once Putin has succeeded in distracting the leadership and the populace he probably has a next step in his plans, which seems to be to allow the Alt Right groups to eliminate the present leadership. He has no personal loyalty for them. They are just pawns. In our case Trump is left to us to do with whatever we choose to do. I imagine that will be to get rid of him. Putin doesn’t care what we do. He knows first hand what it is to go from one of the two Superpowers to governmental and economic collapse in a very few unstable years. It seems his struggle has been to at least level the playing fields down to his county’s level and then gain the upper hand again, only this time we won’t be equal.
We have been in formerly unimaginable disarray from the moment Trump was sworn it. He has been a blitz of nonstop destruction either by direct action or deliberate inaction. And it has exposed our weaknesses.
This may sound too far fetched unless you have a good grasp of history. It’s not a new story. At this moment, after the blue wave, is the first time I’m sensing a ray of hope for Democracy itself. But the struggle is going to be a hard and very intense one. Our halcyon days, if they ever existed are over.
Geez Waterman! You always seem to plunge me into deeper thought! But I feel OK indulging my thoughts here.
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