You’re right that Trump can play the game. He has proven that, I do agree.
It’s just that if I were president, and I were in a democracy that in all practical terms, means all decisions are ceded over exclusively to myself as president and our elected representatives who all piled up in factions on the Hill, and if I consider my base voters, I would not increasingly promote foreign and domestic confusion at the same time, I am confusing my foreign and domestic friends. Sun Tzu, not withstanding.
Thinking for a moment in terms of “wars” for example. Americans are wholly against funding the war in Ukraine, and certainly absolute with No Sale for American sons tramping around in any battle for Ukraine, or paying any price for NATO’s dirty tricks ops against Russia, lined up with their antagonist stupidity against Russia.
We need only remember our own reaction to tiny Cuba with a Big Crisis. Neither Russia nor Cuba were at liberty to crush Cuban speech in Florida, or to disappear Russian Orthodox Churches there, harass their unarmed people with battalion rule, as the AZOV. The two oblasks were after all a Federation of Russia.
Gaza is an issue. The conscience becomes cinged after so much killing, in a space so tight and filled with unarmed civilians who are cannon fodder for both sides. Needs to stop.
The Epstein flip is weird, to me. The anger that day, when Trump incinerated the reporter for inquiring about Pam brushing off the ENTIRE case, blew me away. No one saw that coming.
Funny that it caused him to publicly say that Virginia “was stolen” from the MaraLago spa.
I don’t believe that was very common knowledge, and not sure the Giuffre family had heard it, or heard it put that way in those terms.
So now, he’s magically, “over it”, read the tea leaves and is ready to launch “Everything”, but for distinguishing those “innocent” apart from the salacious.
It’s actually the global money exchanging that I find most interesting, at this point. Ghislane got justice. Epstein is dead in justice.
The Victims were led into the arena by Ghislane. A deal on her charges or her penalties will turn people away from American Justice of the rich and famous. No Deals.
We have adopted the Russian word for Operational Deception,
Maskirovka.
Maskirovka involves deceptive measures including concealment, imitation with decoys and dummies, maneuvers intended to deceive, denial, and disinformation.
One of the primary tenants of Maskirovka involves showing the enemy what they expect to see while you do something else.
PDJT seems to be a master of Maskirovka.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)