My Final Analysis On Trump vs Putin: Folie à Deux

Putin is psychotic and delusional, he doesn't do the internet thing, he only listens to his incompetent and crooked advisors who shamelessly feed his delusions -and have done so from the outset when they told him, that yes, of course Ukraine could be conquered in three days - which is why the tank crews had three days of food and their dress uniforms with them, for the victory parade in Kiev... Trump is stupid, greedy, and hopelessly corrupt - but he is very cunning, which is why he has allowed himself to be catfished by Putin, chasing after the illusory "business deals" kept just out of reach by Putin, just like the fake mouse on the end of a fishing line. And Trump is stupid enough to never figure out the game - and hasn't for the last 15 years. So we have two delusional and psychotic leaders playing a game with each other, and it will continue until the incompetence and corruption destroys both governments.

Trump has been problematic/notorious for a long time, he's had dubious ties and got his wealth by dubious means and rather quickly, by sharp dealing, and by corrupt government. Trump is enough of a polarizing figure that it's hard to find detailed reporting on him that hasn't got some sort of bias behind it, that's the trouble with journalism today, too much opinion stuck in the reportage.

Trump is big on "trade with Russia" because he thinks he has the potential to make a lot of money there - there's a long history of that - https://www.americanprogress.org/article/cracking-the-shell/ - and he wants to keep Putin on side, because the only way Trump can get any money is with Putin on side - he's a bit like Putin's stable of oligarchs in that regard. Putin used the nuclear threat to condition and limit Biden's response, Putin uses the promise of riches to control Trump, and while Trump may be fooled by Putin into thinking he's a friend, Putin isn't and never has been... Trump is just another useful idiot.

The reason I voted for Trump - and stuck a yard sign in my yard - was that the Democrats had outdone themselves with Harris, a corrupt incompetent who would have been Obama's puppet - and along with DEI and the rest of that Maoist crap, I'd simply had enough. Trump has come thorough quite well on his border policy, will hopefully be able to kick the illegals out, starting with the gangs - all brought in by the Democrats, and is doing his best to get rid of the racist DEI policies. My trouble with Trump is that he is too easily suckered by Russia and China, one run by a crypto-Communist, Putin, the other by the still very vicious CCP... and both are out for world domination. As compared to those, I prefer Pax Americana.

Both Trump and Putin are big proponents of crypto-”currency” schemes:

Trump: “Then there’s Trump’s sizable stake in World Liberty Financial, a crypto exchange backed by his family. A Trump business entity owns 60 percent of World Liberty and is entitled to 75 percent of all revenue from coin sales. Eric Trump and Don Trump Jr. are actively involved in the management of the company. The Trump family is currently entitled to about $400 million in fees. But at the center of the family crypto operation is a far more powerful instrument: USD1, a dollar-pegged “stablecoin” – a cryptocurrency designed to maintain a fixed value by being backed one-to-one by traditional assets like U.S dollars or Treasury bonds. USD1’s market capitalization stands at more than $1 billion.

What USD1 actually represents is a private money-printing machine tied directly to the Oval Office. Trump’s financial disclosure form shows the family holds at least a 28 percent stake in USD1’s managing entity, with additional holdings spread across shell companies controlled by Trump Organization affiliates. That money-printing machine is being operated by his son Don Trump Jr., and Zach Witkoff, co-founder of the aforementioned World Liberty and son of Steve Witkoff, Trump’s handpicked Special Envoy to the Middle East. The potential conflicts of interest here are mind-boggling. The two princelings were last week in Abu Dhabi to ink a lucrative and rather murky deal. They were there to witness state-run Emirati fund, MGX, agree to use USD1 to pour $2 billion into Binance, a crypto exchange long known for breaking the rules. Under its founder, Changpeng Zhao, Binance routinely ignored US sanctions and anti-money laundering laws. Zhao eventually pled guilty to federal charges, stepped down, and became a convicted felon.

And now, a year later, a sitting US President is helping to funnel billions into the platform via his family’s crypto product. According to analysts familiar with the deal structure, Trump-linked entities could stand to gain hundreds of millions in fees, equity exposure, and token issuance linked to Binance’s rebranding and relisting efforts.” https://thespectator.com/topic/funding-donald-trump-billion-dollar-crypto-empire/

Binance, of course, like any other business in Communist China, is effectively controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and Trump is a “close friend” of President Xi, who is the head of the CCP - or that’s what Trump has been led to believe. And USD1 could easily become the US Central Bank Digital Currency, if Trump gets his way with the Federal Reserve Bank. And Trump would blow Elon Musk away as the richest man in the world… maybe that’s why they don’t get along so well any more.

On Putin/Russia’s part, we have:

The digital ruble is the implementation in Russia of the World Bank’s/WEF global project for Central Bank Digital Currencies. As for the question: “where does it say that the Bank of Russia intends to replace cash?” There is a direct answer—in the statements of the top officials of the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Russia.

Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Aleksey Moiseev: “The digital ruble is a replacement for the cash ruble.”

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The digital ruble will eventually replace cash, but the transition period will be long, said Sergey Shvetsov, First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. […]

A financial analyst with many years of experience in the management of commercial banks, Alexander Lezhava, echoed our assessment: “Why is the digital ruble dangerous for all of us? The fact that, unlike all cash / non-cash systems that exist today, it is programmable … The central bank will have complete financial information about each of us.”

Experts believe that the introduction of the digital ruble will lead to total control by the state. Each ruble will have its own code—an analogue of the number on a banknote. If each ruble is marked, this means that there will be no problems tracking absolutely all monetary transactions of Russians—the authorities will be able to find out where the citizen received the money, to whom he sent it, what he paid for, what he bought.

A different local media outlet reported on March 24:

The global financial elite is going to introduce digital money into circulation.The well-known Russian economist Valentin Katasonov told DEITA.RU about the implementation of a real scam of the century, when the top of the “golden billion” will replace the usual fiat money for everyone…Also, as the expert noted, the most important aspect of the scam will be depriving people of the right to secretly spend money, because with the advent of their digital counterparts, all human transactions will be under complete control by the operators of the new system.

"But the digital ruble is different"

In fact, you can, if you want to, easily find out that both Trump and Putin are WEF-style globalists - by their actions, not by their words. Both pushed the notorious “vaccines”, both are pushing digital crypto-”currencies” out of which they’ll be able to skim off billions - and effectively silence dissent, and both of them have inner circles of oligarchs and buddy-buddy clubs - Putin has his Valdai Club with its exclusive membership, and Trump has (through one of his sons) his exclusive “Executive Branch” club:

“ On the ground floor of Georgetown Park, Donald Trump Jr. is putting the finishing touches on his invitation-only club, the Executive Branch. When the doors open, reportedly in the next few weeks, it will become Washington’s new power hangout. Cabinet secretaries will mingle with tech billionaires and foreign investors, each having parted with $500,000 for the privilege. The launch party last month included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson. David Sacks, the President’s crypto and AI czar, proudly announced himself as member number one. This tableau – celebrity, politics, profit – perfectly captures the Trump dynasty’s particular brand.

“I’m a private citizen who has been a businessman my entire life,” protests Trump Jr. when questioned about potential conflicts with his burgeoning empires. This line, delivered with increasing frequency since his father’s January restoration to the White House, helps explain the explosion of Trump familial recent business deals: Middle Eastern property developments, defense technology startups and ventures orbiting Elon Musk’s commercial universe, all expanding at a pace suggesting opportunity measured not in mere millions but billions. When the press drew unflattering comparisons (one likened him to Hunter Biden,) Don Jr. fought back, telling CBS, “It’s laughable that the left-wing media thinks that I should lock myself in a padded room and cease what I’ve been doing for over 25 years to earn a living and provide for my five children.”

At one level, his defense is sound – Don Jr. is indeed a private citizen who just happens to be the son of the president of the United States. (And in his own words, there is a big difference between him and Hunter Biden: “He’s also a felon crackhead and I’m not.”) But the chronology is rather telling. Just six days after the election, Trump Jr. joined the investment firm 1789 Capital, which managed $200 million. Within three months, the fund had raised $500 million and announced plans to amass $1 billion by summer. The reason for this sudden success is not hard to fathom: when this Palm Beach outfit invests, it offers something far more valuable than capital – the unspoken promise of presidential proximity. With Trump-branded properties materializing across Qatar and Saudi Arabia in perfect harmony with diplomatic visits, you have to wonder: has America ever witnessed such a brazen fusion of presidential access and private enterprise?

The answer, at least sort of, is “yes.” Hunter Biden’s hobbyist paintings were supposed to be listed by a New York art dealer under an ethics agreement that, as a candidate, Joe Biden claimed would ensure Hunter and himself would be unaware of who purchased them. Soon after Biden won, though, people were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for the artworks, previously deemed valueless, and it turned out Hunter did know who bought them. One such buyer, influential California Democratic donor Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, was appointed to an influential government commission by the president.

Yet even if the Trumps are swimming in a pre-existing swamp, the contrast of 2025 with the first Trump administration is stark. During Trump’s first tenure, the family maintained at least a pretense of separation between government and business – Don Jr. and Eric supposedly managing the Trump Organization while their father governed, with Ivanka and Jared accepting official roles in the administration. The opposition naturally criticized this arrangement, pointing to foreign diplomats booking Trump hotel rooms and the President’s frequent visits to his own properties.

But that earlier approach now seems quaint compared to the machinery of influence operating today in plain sight. Where the first term featured clumsy attempts to navigate ethics concerns through nominal business trusts and promises of no “new deals,” today’s operation has done away such pretenses entirely. The family’s first-term education taught them a valuable lesson: the political consequences of conflicts of interest don’t really matter if supporters remain loyal. This time around, there’s nothing to lose.” https://thespectator.com/topic/donald-trump-jr-gold-rush-executive-branch-business/

This is the problem spoken of in Anti-Federalist Paper #9:

and the rest of the Anti-Federalist Papers - that consolidated, centralized governments, which concentrate power in one person, or a small group of persons, eventually abuse and rob the people that put them in power in the first place.

Giving any person absolute power over another is a very risky thing, and all too often the consequences for the person with the lesser power are disastrous. It’s the sort of power that attracts psychopaths and pedophiles - people without conscience, morals, or accountability to a higher power - to it, like moths to a flame. “Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely”, as Lord Acton put it.

And this is the problem which the original American Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, was designed to solve. It put in place a government with very limited and enumerated powers, it established no permanent bureaucracy - and it did not distribute financial or other gifts from one group of people to another. It left people alone for the most part, it functioned solely to mediate disputes between the set of republics and states which made up the “united States”, and formed a common defense against the rest of the world, and that was about all it did. It could be run out of a single building at very little cost - and was, for the most part.

And because of this limitation on powers, there was not much influence to be bought - or sold. Now we have a tyranny of grifters and con artists and organized crime, both here and in Russia - the difference being that here in the US, it’s bipartisan, whereas in Russia, there’s only one party.

It’s really time to put an end to these carnivals of greed, corruption, and incompetence, at least here in the US. It’s been really bad since the end of Reagan’s terms in office - it doesn’t matter if it’s the Bush family, the Clinton family, the Obamas, the Bidens, or the Trump family, it’s not what the original intent, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence or our original Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, was. We need to return to that system - and with luck we will, when the current system finally runs itself out of money - and people start resisting and fighting back against the robbery by our corrupted and incompetent elites, and their wholly-owned governments, both here and in Russia.