Yves here. Richard Murphy below works out the implications of his hypothesis, that Trump’s grand visions is rule by broligarch. The wee problem is it fails to explain big parts of Trump’s agenda, such as his lawless approach to deportation, his aggressive suppression of anti-Zionist speech, climate change denialism, his destruction of an already weak public health system, his love of tariffs even as their implementation damages US companies and with that, his naive approach to restoring manufacturing in the US. And let’s not get started on annexing Greenland.
I would argue that the broligarchs are big force multipliers for implementing an extreme libertarian agenda, and with it, asset grabs as prices crash. The wee problem is that between climate change, resource scarcity, and distress in other countries if Trump policies are not reversed, many of those bargains will prove to have been correctly priced. Many viable enterprises that Trump reduces to junk will remain junk. It’s not as if this crowd is good at dealing with complicated real world problems like turning businesses around.
There’s a sour note in Murphy’s discussion of Ukraine. The US is pulling out because Ukraine has lost and there is nothing, ex a nuclear war, that the US can do to turn that around. Yes, Trump may separately relish kicking the Europeans after they repeatedly snubbed and attacked him during Trump 1.0.
But the question of NATO remains. The US was willing to carry most of the costs to assure that Europeans would remain good vassals and to contain the USSR. The US is overextended militarily given its bizarre fixation on mess with what had been a very long-term Chinese plan to reintegrate Taiwan. US war games have repeatedly shown we can’t win in a hot conflict. Nevertheless, the US feels the need to project power against China, and normalizing relations with Russia reduces US deployment needs. Former US ambassador Chas Freeman has said Europe needs to “grow up” and stop operating under US policy domination (which is stumbling towards now). Part of that is controlling its own defense, which means paying for it. Amusingly, Boris Johnson has just come out in the Daily Mail (paywalled) defending Trump in his intent to make NATO members eat most of their military costs:
Americans know freeloading when they see it – and ours can't go on for everhttps://t.co/lHSxxk8zkr
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) March 28, 2025
By Richard Murphy, Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School and a director of the Corporate Accountability Network. Originally published at Funding the Future
Trump appears random, haphazard and out of control. But that’s not true. The Tech Bros who stand behind him have a plan – and that is to preserve their wealth by destroying the power of the governments that might oppose them.
This is the audio version:
This is the transcript:
What is Trump’s grand plan?
I’ve been trying to work this out ever since Trump got into office in January because there must be a reason for the mayhem that he is creating. I simply do not believe that he arrived in the Oval Office without some sort of meta-narrative or explanation of what it is that he’s trying to achieve. But, he certainly didn’t lay that out in advance of becoming President, and he hasn’t even now made it very clear since being in the White House.
So, I’ve had to stand back and have a think about this, and I’ve come up with one explanation, which to me seems to tie together all the disparate themes that we are seeing with regard to his administration.
It’s my opinion that Donald Trump is the willing agent for or representative of the ‘Tech Bros’, as we will call them.
That’s Musk with X, or Twitter. That’s Zuckerberg with Facebook.
And that’s Jeff Bezos with Amazon – and, of course, he’s also now a media mogul as well.
These people are terrified of one thing. That is having their power clipped.
Their power comes from their control of data – the data that they can collect from you and from me as a result of us using their services.
They know more about us in some ways than we know about ourselves.
They can predict our preferences.
They can direct advertising at us.
They can decide what our political preferences probably are.
They can decide when and where we might wish to go on holiday based on what we’ve looked at in terms of advertising.
And on and on, and on.
As a result, they believe they can help others to maximize their profit by exploiting us. And, let’s be blunt, that’s what I think they do, because I think that advertising is manipulative, and as a result, they want to maximize their power over that data because it is the source of their wealth.
This is why we saw those people lined up at the inauguration in the White House in a way that was unprecedented. Business had not previously been seen at such an event in that way before, and that was the signal that this is the administration of Big Tech. And Big Tech is really frightened of two things, both of which were represented by Joe Biden and both of which are represented by the European Union.
Those two things are the power to bust monopolies and the power to control data. The state has both those powers, and remember that if we go back into US history at around the turn of the 19th century into the 20th century, we had a not dissimilar situation of there being some oligarchs who basically controlled a great deal of the US economy.
They were, at the time, the railroad chiefs, and they were the chiefs of the iron and steel industries, plus some bankers, and between them, they pretty much had America sewn up and in their pockets until they came across President Teddy Roosevelt, who was in office in the first decade of the 20th century – in other words, just after 1900. And he used something called antitrust legislation to smash their power.
He brought 43 legal actions against these banks and railroads and iron and steel companies to require that they split up their operations so that the power of competition was restored, because these people had removed that power of competition by creating monopolies, which were extracting supernormal profits from the people of the USA in a way that was deeply manipulative and was going to continue to let them exploit those people forever unless action was taken.
And Teddy Roosevelt was the man who said, this is not the American way, and he succeeded using the antitrust legislation that he created then, plus legislation that was created in the 1930s after the Wall Street Crash, which provided a framework which ensured that America was at least an approximately competitive economy for nearly another century.
But now it isn’t.
Nobody anticipated the power of the internet.
Nobody anticipated the ability of the tech world to collect data from us in the way that it has.
Nobody realised that when we went shopping, we might pass over our Club Card, or whatever it might be called in your supermarket, that will let that store know precisely what your shopping preferences are and so on.
And this is what the basis of valuation of the companies that the Tech Bros own really is, but which Biden was threatening using antitrust legislation. And, he was trying to control the power of data. They didn’t want that. They saw that their immense wealth running to trillions could be challenged by this.
And there is one thing that the wealthy want above all else, and that is to remain wealthy. Nothing frightens them more than moving from being a trillionaire to only being a billionaire again. This is the sort of thing that gives them sleepless nights because status is everything to them. When you have enough money to do anything you want, and these people very clearly have that way beyond any requirement that they will ever have, then status is king and they want the status of being the rulers of the world, and Donald Trump has provided them with that opportunity.
So, what has happened is this. Musk as agent for Trump, or Trump as agent for Musk – with Musk also acting on behalf of the other Tech Bros, in effect – is trying to do a power grab. Everything that he’s doing is trying to claim for the DOGE, as he calls it – the Department of Government Efficiency – the control of the data of the US government.
He is trying to get his hands on social security data, IRS data, the data that is available with regard to veterans and armed services, and, of course, medicine, which is an immensely powerful source of information to the big pharma companies. And he and his colleagues no doubt want to claim this data, whether legally or illegally – and I don’t think that really matters to them any more because as we can see, Trump is basically suspending the rule of law in the USA. He is trying to claim that data in a way that either he or he and the other big tech companies can licence in the future to those who want to use it, whether they be big pharma or even government itself.
And let’s be clear what they think about government. They do not want to see the perpetuation of the federal government. To them, the federal government is the enemy because it was the federal government that brought the antitrust legislation. It was the federal government that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wanted to use to stop their power. They want to devolve power from the federal government to the states of the USA, and we’re seeing this with regard to education, where the Department of Education is being abolished.
We’re seeing it with regard to the undermining of those things that are clearly federal responsibilities, like USAID, and even to some degree in foreign policy.
We are seeing it with regard to the devolution of Social Security powers to the states.
So we are seeing a destruction of the federal government because it is the power that could challenge their prosperity, and this also drives the foreign policy that Trump is doing.
Why is Trump pulling out of Ukraine? Because if he does, the EU is in a mess, in the opinion of those people who are heading the administration. We’ve seen this. We’ve seen JD Vance saying he hates the ‘pathetic’ Europeans and others, including the Secretary of State, appear to agree with him.
They are actually opposed to Europe, viscerally. They hate it. And what they’re trying to do is create an imbalance inside Europe so that Europe has to turn to an internal focus so that it does not look at how it will control the operation of US tech companies in Europe, which is the goal that the Tech Bros have, and therefore they’re willing to sacrifice Ukraine to Putin if necessary to achieve this goal of destabilising the power that is in Europe, which is the European Commission, which is the one agency that can threaten them outside the USA. This, I believe, is what explains what is going on.
There is a grand plan to Trump, after all, in my opinion. It’s taken me weeks and a couple of months even to try to work out what it might be. But as a political economist, what I look at is how relationships of power are used to reallocate resources within society.
What these tech people know is that data gives them power.
Their challenge is to preserve that power against the authorities that might have had the ability to challenge it – the federal government and the EU, and to claim more of the data that they can in the process so that they will actually reinforce their ability to earn in the future because they will licence information previously held by the federal government back to the states and to big pharma and to medicine and everyone else.
This, I think, is what they’re about.
Always follow the money is the golden rule in political economy. These people believe they can make money by destroying the US federal government, and that’s why they’re trying to do it.
Murphy is severely infected with both Trump Derangement Syndrome and Putin Derangement Syndrome.
I don’t see this is a TDS infected analysis. He is trying to outlay the reasons behind the chaos Trump is bringing around and IMO his analysis is compelling. I was wondering, among many other considerations, what in these conditions can do the little people with some savings. The younger one with long term perspectives and the elder which might need to tap savings sooner. Would it be wise to reduce risks in stocks holdings and move to more conservative stances? Bonds and the like? Even if consolidating some recent losses, would it be wise? This is a nightmarish scenario and I am discussing this with my wife and my son these days.
If I had a house under mortgage I would be ( would long since have been) fanatically pre-paying down the principal so as to cut that link between me and the system.
But I don’t have that. What I have is a live-in membership in a co-op. As a member, I get to live in a 620 square foot 1 bedroom no basement apartment. I pay less and get more than I ever did before here in College Townville. I live beneath my modest means and have zero debt.
But you are in Europe, I believe, and I assume that will remain more stable ( monetarily and otherwise) than America will. Are there legitimate fears in Europe ( Spain in your case?) about savings deliberately being devalued to zero? Or outright confiscated through predasitic forced bail-ins? Or etc.? If such fears are legitimate, then the best thing to do with any savings beyond a few months emergency cash-horde or gold-horde ( or horde of whatever you think will still be “money” after nothing else is) is to invest them in personal survivalism through the crash of crashing systems.
Personal foodgrowing/cooking, personal indoor climate control if you live in a real house of your very own or owned as part of a co-op or group, on-site skywater harvesting and storage, on-site body waste disposal, etc. Invest in personal health improvement to improve your chances of surviving (maybe even living pleasantly) beyond the death of organized health care. Things like that.
So far we are accounting potential effects of tariffs on stock valuations. Per the reactions seen losses are significant. With regard to properties we don’t care. I don’t fear savings confiscation and we aren’t so far in the case of cash hoarding. A riskier alternative would be stablecoins which in our case is no-no. One might be thinking in stock portfolios which are not that dependent on tariffs, but on local business that might be even favored by tariffs somehow because foreign competition is reduced. As a matter of fact i am looking for Spanish tech companies with an interesting service portfolio.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is a diversionary slur used on people who are critical of one or another aspect of Trump’s beliefs, goals and actions. It is a velcro decoy tarbaby set up by the side of the road to trick people into defending themselves against the TDS charge rather than thinking about what Richard Murphy tells us and about how we might counter that process and undermine that power-combine.
Magasbarists use the TDS accusation the way hasbarists use the antisemitism accusation.
I don’t know about TDS, but certainly a very biased memory of Biden and Harris who, to my memory, made no such moves to break up monopolies. Let’s face it, both the Republicans/MAGA and the Neoliberal Democrats have sold out to Big Money. I have heard it said, the Republicans care about the 1%, the Democrats care about the 10%, and no one with any power cares about the 90%.
“I have heard it said, the Republicans care about the 1%, the Democrats care about the 10%, and no one with any power cares about the 90%.” I think this is a very accurate assessment. The TDS appellation, it seems to me, can be properly leveled at those Democrats who blame DJT for every problem afflicting us and refuse to really consider how the underlying weaknesses of the two-party, profoundly undemocratic American system and money-money-money have brought us down.
I can accept much of this, but there are at least two parts which I cannot. First, the premise that Biden and Harris were actually going to “Teddy Roosevelt” the broligarchy, and second is the whole Ukraine take which betrays complete ignorance about the origins of the conflict.
Yeah, point one reeks of liberal wishcasting. Biden did appoint Linda Khan, which was a good thing. However, in every other way possible, he stuck to his promise that “nothing will fundamentally change.” If I recall correctly, Harris never even committed to supporting Khan, if elected. Outside of Linda Khan, nothing from Biden/Harris indicated any real threat to their rice troughs.
Indeed, Stoller frequently complained that Biden never sought to advertise his victories against monopolies. It almost seems like Biden’s strength on antitrust was some kind of historical accident.
Around the time Biden stepped aside I read an article claiming that Khan was what Warren got to play her part in the 2020 primaries. I think that fits what we know.
I think it is even a little worse, not only did she not commit, her actions strongly implied that she would replace Khan, NYT covered it: “News that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and major Democratic donor, wants Vice President Kamala Harris, if she wins in November, to replace Lina Khan as chair of the F.T.C. provoked outrage on the left. Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, called it “unacceptable,” and Tim Wu, the Columbia Law School professor and former Biden antitrust official, demanded that the Harris campaign return Hoffman’s donations.”
Trump is an opportunity. It’s not he who has the plan, but the libertarian oligarchy which is using and trying to direct the chaos towards their goals.
I think Trump demonstrated again yesterday how his brain works, when after a round of golf and a few hours of getting flattered and cajoled by the Finnish PM, with a follow up call by Starmer to set the mould, he did a call with NBC news to say how “pissed off” he is with Putin for denying that Big Z is the legitimate leader of the Ukraine.
As Yves says, he’s very cunning but he’s not smart. I’d also say that he’s easily manipulated but quickly grows bored with flatterers who can’t keep up with his whims or who show the slightest weakness.
Indeed. It isn’t so much Trump’s plan as it is Musk’s (and the larger tech bro-oligarchs group’s) plan.
When it comes to Europe this plan may dovetail with the plan to re-arm Europe, but that I think comes more from Trump and his sense that the vassal’s aren’t doing enough to support the empire. I still don’t think that the plan is “Europe needs to “grow up” and stop operating under US policy domination” but rather that the US wants a EU military that it can order about. JD Vance sure sounded on that Signal chat like he wanted a EU navy to send to the Red Sea.
I don’t think it will work out though. It is one thing for EU to pass a budget and another to actually create an effective military. If past performance is measured the last couple of years has been more rising prices on existing production then increased production. With the US empire’s tailspin events may make current plans obsolete quickly. And if it does work, insisting that the vassals are better armed so that they can guard the borders of the empire rarely works out well.
I would argue a slight tweak….he is micro-smart, as in dealing 1 v. 1 with a principal re. X micro item.
Trump, and his circle, are at best naive re. macro structural social, political, economic trends
I think that formula is a good way to put it. However, I wonder if it’s possible that there is no coherent group of people who have “a plan” in the sense of an intentionally designed strategy toward a meaningful goal. Perhaps there are just confused and somewhat dimwitted people in charge right now, who don’t really know what they are doing, even having difficulty figuring out how to advance their own interests. (Just from listening to Howard Lutnick, for instance, I don’t get any idea of what his goal, strategy or tactics are, everything he says seems contradictory and nothing but slogans.)
I *feel* as though even Project 2025 is just a “random” wish list of the most extreme elements of our society, without any vision for a unified outcome. Critics of Project 2025 are probably better at figuring out the unifying threads than the people implementing the project. Intellectually, I don’t think that is right. I believe the reactionary anti-New Deal right does have a coherent program, but it really *feels* like everything is in shambles right now.
For example, it seems the Trump administration is spending energy on tiny little things like the New York City congestion pricing program, or getting New York to publish data on Subway crime (which it already does), etc. Has Trump pardoned scammers and intervened in small cases of internet lowlifes? This all seems too ridiculous to believe.
Trump does have dreams and desires. Dreams and desires of vengeance. His dream is to turn America into a Big MAGA Sh!thole to match the Sh!tholes inside his own heart, mind and soul. He wants to tear America down to his cultural and moral level and so do his MAGAnon worshippers, so they can rub the rest of our faces in their own feces.
Trump and his worshippers ( the tire irons in Big Techbro’s hands) live to embody the spirit described in this article by Mark Ames.
https://exiledonline.com/we-the-spiteful/
Which means that the best way for the rest of us ( those of us with enough cultural and knowledge-quality to be able to do so) live out the spirit of this other Mark Ames article . . .
https://exiledonline.com/elite-versus-elitny/#:~:text=This%20article%20was%20first%20published%20in%20The%20eXile,act%20like%20hicks%20and%20get%20away%20with%20it.
Cry MAGA cry! Cry MAGA cry! Cry MAGA cry! Cry MAGA cry! etc. etc. etc.
( Meanwhile, what actual power do we tiny little individuals have if we pool and focus our tiny little individual actions, to tear down and destroy the actual digital companies which are pursuing their power agenda? Or at least degrade, attrit and weaken them enough for opportunitic opportunities to arise for taking them down with fatal headshots?)
Agreed. Trump has never planned anything and it’s always shoot from the hip with him. Those techbros, however, are a different story. I don’t think Trump has any natural affinity for the silicon valley types, other than the fact they they all like money. But there are plenty of other corporate types who fit that bill too. Musk, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc clearly would like to do some big social engineering projects. But let’s remember who embraced these types first – they were all liberal darlings at one point, and administrations under both parties shoveled plenty of taxpayer dollars at them to help put them in the positions of power they have today.
What Trump does have is the desire to stick it to those who tried to sink him. If you ask me, it was the Democrat party that drove Musk and Trump together due to all their social media censorship efforts. Trump doesn’t give a rip about Tulsi Gabbard or RFK JR either, except to know that the Democrats don’t like them.
Yves, thanks very much both for your introductory commentary and for this posting.
I agree with Murphy that the Techbros have to damage government to maintain their power and profit. It’s also their ideology (e.g., the Singapore model). However, I don’t agree that this is Trump’s plan. As Ian Welsh wrote, Trump doesn’t have a master plan. The Techbros (and others) are taking advantage of this. The best one could say about Trump having a plan is that it is to negotiate better deals for the US, whatever “better” means to him. This is not going well since so far it’s just bullying everyone.
Thanks for the links. I think Ian Welsh is right. I don’t see a plan here. Trump is already failing in several areas:
1. Project Ukraine – rather than getting us out, he’s getting stuck in the mud. Sinking fast like that tank in Lithuania allegedly with 4 US soldiers inside of it. Would anyone be shocked if he goes to Congress and asks for another weapons package, like Biden did?
2. Tariffs – Mr. Market is getting crashy.
3. Iran/Yemen – yet another war that will drain resources … how many millions does each B2 bombing run cost? There has to be a limit and the deficit is getting worse, not better, despite any trivial DOGE cuts that aren’t backed up by Congress, either.
Forgot to add, number 4, or 1(b):
How’s that minerals deal w/ Ukraine doing?
“There has to be a limit and the deficit is getting worse…”
Perhaps they will adopt Modern Monetary Theory but for all the wrong reasons and toward the worst possible ends.
Please forgive my naive and uninformed take on MMT but doesn’t it involve getting rid of interest-bearing debt and going straight for the printing press approach?
e.g., the government prints up all the money needed to cover the budget. Goodbye, treasury market, and goodbye US dollar as a reserve currency.
So while it’s fun to speculate on, I don’t see any evidence that we will depart from monetary orthodoxy anytime soon. Wall St. banks can rest easy!
Yes. Trust in a currency is essential to maintaining the dollar as a reserve currency. Once that diminishes the $30+ Trillion US debt becomes a real burden. Will the US begin to look like the USSR as it moved toward disssolution in 1991?
You might say that Trump plan is to favor “his” US champions. A very common and simplistic approach among right wing politicians. What is good for Google etc. (their owners) must be good for the US. No need to go beyond with the optics.
“A very common and simplistic approach among right wing politicians.”
And one of long standing. I was kind of surprised that he didn’t mention Grover Norquist and the plan to reduce government to proportions that would allow them to drown it in a bath tub, They have been talking about this since before there were “broligarchs”, the tech kings just got the opportunity to fulfill the vision.
The tech bros were going to maintain their power one way or another . They donated to Kamala in large numbers.
it is Peter Thiel who is behind this IMHO.
every Trump appointee has ties to Peter.
but Trump also has the religious libertarians who produced Project 2025 and the Wall Street libertarian asset managers backing him.
I dont know if Trump has a plan, but I believe these guys do. I am getting the same vib from Laffer that I used to get from my ‘just wait until Jan 6’ friends.
Religious libertarian, Wall St. Libertarian, isn’t that oxymoronic? I would think that these dudes are highly authoritarian, not libertarian at all. They just want the “freedom” to rape and pillage while everyone else is shackled with debt and poverty. The Wall St. Authoritarians and the Religious authoritarians.
yes my terminology needs some work.
more rules for thee and not for me for the religious group behind Project 2025. but the wall street gold bug types I maybe a little closer to the correct terminology. they’re more of the Golden Rule type.
Taleb: The only rational explanation: they are super-long GOLD.
Both the government and social media bros want to use each other to collect data. I didn’t and don’t care about the EU and USA’s half-assed anti-trust plans.
All the unsecure data collection is the problem. Whether it’s many annoying entities vs one annoying entity – all with the same bad ideas and unchecked bad actors – people face the same hell.
Considering faux “democracy” in Europe, ultra nationalists (nice term for neo nazis) controlling US propped Kiev, EU bellicosity why would US serve a nuclear trip wire (which is much more serious than funding NATO) for the olde continent?
Underwriting policy with thermonuclear weapons is very costly!
A lot of USAtians don’t understand just how prevalent Putin Derangement Syndrome is in the UK.
Yes and it’s even worse, Russo-phobia and Orientalism are deep-seated in “western” culture in general. This goes back many centuries. “Oriental Despotism vs. Liberal Democracy” and all that. The Romans differentiated between the Latin-speaking west and the Greek speaking east. Then the Great Schism of 1054. Then the Cold War pitted the evil, godless communist Russkies against god-fearing Christian, free-market loving, democratic west. We “good”, they “bad”
‘I would argue that the broligarchs are big force multipliers for implementing an extreme libertarian agenda’
Yeah, I can buy that. You look at Trump’s history and there is nothing much in it about allying himself with the techbros. If anything, they were his enemy the first term in office. But what does Trump want? I think what all billionaire’s want. Not paying any taxes with the Feds not having the means to go after them. No regulations or laws hindering them in what they want to do with a working population unable to have the means or the laws to challenge them. They call it freedom but for the other 90% it is servitude. The techbros have their own agenda but they would agree with these ideas – so long as it includes them. And there is their hypocrisy in not wanting to pay any taxes while taking advantage of roads, police, fire departments, etc. that taxes pay for. For them there is but one goddess and Ayn Rand is her name. So I would say that they are both fellow travelers who would have no qualms about ditching the US Constitution and imposing an authoritarian regime with them as the overlords. And Trump is using them to wreck the government which he feels is stopping he and his fellow billionaires from doing whatever they want.
I have read what must be dozens of essays, many by thoughtful people whom I respect, laying out what they believe is the method behind the madness. None of them agree with each other.
There is I think a psychological block that people have to entertaining the idea that Trump really is exactly as shallow, selfish, and irrational as he seems on the surface.
But what about the oligarch-broligarch-parasites who want to further asset-strip the place? Accumulating obscene amounts of power and wealth for doing very little must be “rational”, at least according to mainstream economic theory and popular belief.
I would agree that the DT himself shows signs of mental illness and cognitive decline. It depends on how one defines “rational”. It could be interpreted as kleptocracy, sadism, sociopath/psychopath disorders… but I’m not a psychologist.
Yep. My take, which is worth what you’re paying for it, is that Trump sees himself as the Great Man, the hero of his story, and he’s going to Make America Great Again in the manner in which he understands it. And that’s all there is to that.
And there’s opportunity for others to align with Trump, and enact their own agendas. Whatever Musk wants, it clearly seems co-compatible with Trump’s MAGA vision, of which Trump is the superstar.
It’s understandable that Americans who have hitched their wagons to Trump have to hope he really knows the way to the promised land of Californ-eye-ay through the Badlands while fending off the Indians, and around the camp-fires at night as the tumbleweed rolls past them and the wolves howl in the darkness around they console and encourage themselves that their guide knows what he’s doing.
Alas, those of us of a grown-up persuasion not raised on a diet of Hollywood movies know John Wayne wouldn’t have lasted a day in the real Wild West.
Heh heh, am I right this space left intentionally blank?
In all the dealings I’ve had with USians on the subject of Europe, it’s hard to think of more than a few who actually understood Europe, or made much of an effort to. Few even knew what the Commission was. What we’re seeing here, I suspect, is in essence the US deciding that it’s had enough of being used by the Europeans as a counterweight to Russia (and before that the Soviet Union) when it conceives its most important interests to be elsewhere. Project Ukraine has failed, and it’s time to salvage what can be salvaged, and make up with the Russians (or try to) because if you can’t beat them, join them.
Western political systems these days do not allow Grand Plans in reality, and the existential hole this creates more or less requires people to try to fill it with imagined Grand Plans of their own construction.
I would agree but the efforts to de-escalate tensions with Russia appear disingenuous and counterproductive, given the latest developments, and threats against Russia and Russia’s allies. I think most agree that the current US regime is packed with inexperienced and incompetent (and tragically laughable) figures.
There is no “grand plan” for Trump. Like previous U.S. presidents, he is simply rewarding his donors.
Since you asked about Trump’s Grand Plan, here is one view of some domestic issues.
Deep State removal, mentioned routinely outside the media, is a part of the Plan. That includes identification of extracurricular, bureaucratic and unofficial actors that undermine or counteract the voters. Examples abound like the USAID NGO frauds, ActBlue fundraising smurfing, and Biden’s registration of millions of illegals for voting and social security / disability benefits.
I would love to believe that fairy tale. If dude was serious about any of that, he would push hard to cut Israel off. That aint happening. He loves the so-called deep state and vice versa.
Millions of illegals voted? He said last time that millions crossed the border and voted for HRC, then went back across. People will believe anything. But where is the Evidence please
But it looks like folks enjoy being conned and abused by politicians of BOTH fraudulent parties. Same ol BS
Saving Israel for last, on record for a few years now.
Assassin’s target multiple times.
SSN fraud linked to voting is actively researched. An early participant is Capt. Seth Keshel. Scott Presler is also publicizing his research. Recently, the DataRepublican (small R) has also contributed materially on voting, USAID and other topical items.
Uncovering and publicizing the fraud, self-dealing, corruption and treason all target the Deep State and its supporters. Those are not the acts of someone loving them.
Evidence abounds beyond mainstream sources. Stay tuned.
Trump’s grand plan is to fly by the seat of his pants for as long as possible. Look out below.
I’m going to run with Occam’s razor here, and just assume, based on form, that Trump is just an idiot, doing idiot things.
Did the Kosher Nostra have a tighter grip on Genocide Joe than they’ve got on Benedict Donald?
Benedict Donald !, good one, even better than Orange Judas
In my view, he doesn’t have a ‘grand plan’, as such. More like do what his Israeli / Jewish handlers tell him, while keeping his business cronies happy.
MAGA is just an excuse to go on a ball and chain wrecking exercise – great in principle, but a disaster in practice. Remaking the government and deep state is easier said than done, because the corruption isn’t just in the organisations themselves, but in the many, many people in and around them.
Rather like an engineered virus. Sounds familiar?
Virtually all of the US government/deep state IS in the middle of the swamp, including Trump’s own crowd. Right up to their necks.