

A lot of people don’t understand this.
Early on, only adult men with land could vote.
In the War of 1812, many people opposed conquering Canada not because it would be morally wrong, but because annexed Canada would give too much power to the abolitionist states.
Then we had Andrew Jackson, the Trump of the early 1830s, who did a bunch of bad shit. And South Carolina kicked off some prelude to the Civil War with Nullification.
Pretty much everything from Reconstruction to WW2 was big corporate doing whatever they wanted with the American population. With some disruptions involving angry employees, of course.










If Trump was Putin’s puppet, he wouldn’t TACO out of his disputes with Europe. Greenland wouldn’t be in Danish hands. Hell, Putin’s puppet might even want to join the war in Ukraine on Russia’s side.
The only person Trump cares about is Trump. The best Putin can hope for is that Trump destroys a bunch of shit indiscriminately, which he is doing quite well. Some of the destroyed shit could be Russian assets, which Russia will have to endure.