This is another distraction to take the attention off the tremendous economic and child sexual assault at the hands of MAGA’s elite and other upper class sorts.
I doubt the US is going to do any “puppet state” stuff because of the current financial crisis the US is facing under the sloppy management of the Republicans combined with how perpetually expensive puppeteering is. Trump’s “we’re taking control of Venezuela’s oil” is neither a profitable nor sustainable goal; it’s just an idiotic thing Trump is saying because he knows how profoundly stupid the whole MAGA movement is (the whole thing was forged in profound stupidity). The distraction is to try and make them think “we’re taking control” equals money bags for them; and the goal of the distraction, is that they’ll either forget or tolerate the fact that he’s a massive pedophile and child rapist while believing that he’s going to make their lives better… just after a little while longer of making things worse.
The only realistic outcome of this direction is a big bill for the already suffering American population so that a few billionaire mining company shareholders can get slightly wealthier… most of those aren’t even American.
The problem with Trump is that he’s an idiot. He has no idea how to run a prosperous country, only how to please the people who are exploiting it; again, many of those exploiting the situation are not American. Trump’s not in it for the US, he’s treated the country like shit, harassing people with ICE brigades, threatening the US’s own cities. MAGA is just cult of those stupid enough to believe Trump is their messiah. This is demagoguery 101, and tyrants have been pulling this same game going back all the way to Archaic era Greece. And that’s really the big flaw with democracy, when stupid people gather in large numbers, they generally throw up some sort of cult of personality, and the ones they follow aren’t the intellectuals, they’re the idiots. Demagoguery eroding a country into an impoverished tyranny in a nutshell.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
