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geopolitics (jē″ō-pŏl′ĭ-tĭks) noun

The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation.

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What do Putin, Trump & Netanyahu have in common? (infosec.pub)

submitted 11 hours ago by madeindex@lemmy.world to c/geopolitics@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45217727

When faced with domestic/personal political problems, an easy method to sideline & slowly solve them, is to start or escalate #war.

It shifts the public conversation, changes the legal & political environment /interests, eases expanded military action at home, & creates opportunities to reward & align with certain factions (oligarchs, corporations, #military leaders).

Here are my thoughts and analysis on the subject in the shape of a table.

What do you think?

Took me a while to make this :)

Please share if you think this makes sense!

*Focusing on recent / ongoing conflicts!

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You are putting in a single image the points that I've been relying-on & mentioning for awhile.

I can see why ideologues would be downvoting you/this..

It's accurate.

The 1 thing that you didn't mention, & that's probably best for you, is that there are 3 categories-of-game:

Positive-Sum Game - Win-Win Alliance
Zero-Sum Game - Competitive-Narcissism
Negative-Sum Game - Competitive-Nihilism

& that Putin & Netanyahu, as mass-shooters do, are definitely playing competitive-nihilism with competitive-narcissism in the mix, but the greater the destruction, the "higher their score".

Trump's playing the same game.

So long as nobody equals his career-destruction-of-the-ones-opposed-to-his-kingdom ( throughout the next few years ), then he's "won".

The de-naturalize-all-who-he-wants-to-ICE law he's sitting-on, waiting until he's got dictatorship ( then he can make everybody who isn't MAGA into "illegals", through already-ready law ), & the incinerators that he'll be having built at all the ICE plants, will be his domestic eradication program..

..but he'll be conscripting everybody he can for his wars-of-conquest, from annexing Canada & Greenland, for his "Greater North America" "manifest destiny", to rampaging on Central & South America, for imperial-expansion, or at least destroying intolerable-autonomy from his part of the world..

Yes, they're of the same basic nature, & they're playing the same category-of-game as their primary game.

The diff is that Trump's still progressing to his crystallization, whereas both Putin & Netanyahu have already got to theirs.

Millei's seeming to be willingly following in their footsteps? ( seriously: voting against the UN resolution on slavery?? )

Orban, too.. ( I don't bet 2-cents on the competitor being allowed to win the Hungarian election: Orban'll break that potential ANY way he can, to retain power. I hope the new guy wins, .. but the left has usually been too soft, lately, like the Democrats' "electing" of Harris.. mind you, her being a hard-line Netanyahu-backer sure as hell didn't help, but coasting on assumed-victory COSTS, & the left doing the same accommodating in Millei's 2nd election.. why protest, if you wouldn't vote against?? whatever )

I'm thanking you for the work you put into this..

Concise is a good thing, sometimes.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

Oh, just remembered..

You may want to use Solnit's identifying of how Kremlin-entangled Trump's people are https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/time-to-confront-trump-putin-network

& the evidence that he's been a Kremlin investment for decades..

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

AND how the Epstein files indicate that Epstein was working for the CIA, Mossad, AND the Kremlin, which is why he was untouchable, until he needed to be cord-strangled by "nobody".

There's a yt channel, Michael Franzese, a former mafia man, iirc the video has Epstein as a marionette, with a big dark hand being the puppetmaster above, as its thumbnail?

good grief he's got alot of videos on Epstein: that guy must really have got his goat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZPkD-ncqc is I think the one..

the FBI was ordered to back-off, because Epstein was an intelligence asset, which is why he was allowed "slap on the wrist" sentencing with 12h/day free-pass when the FBI wanted him put away..

But if they're all in the Epstein files, then that is relevant, too..

Trump's complaining about the "deep state" is gaslighting: HE is the evil deep-state, with Putin, Netanyahu, Epstein, & others all working together to murder uprightness from ruling our world..

The evidence is clear, but the pseudojournalism doing everything it can to push incredulousness at the actual-evidence, to push normalizing the gaslighting & calling-into-question the truth, it's sickening..

Whatever, enough.

I just want the "points & edges" of all such things as the usefully-terse work you did, to cut evil as deeply as it can, without making your life be under threat.

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