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Where is Trump?

Usually flapping his veneered gums for the major media with some contrary nonsense or other, Trump seems to have taken a break. Instead we have Lindsey Graham and his sidekick Blumenthal in Kiev, prancing perversely braying for war, while typically ejaculating over the remains of Gaza, at the behest and self-pleasure of their Wall Street handlers.

So. Where is Trump? Is he just embarrassed and in hiding? Trump ran on the platform of being a 'peace candidate'. Trump featured Tucker, Tulsi, RFK Jr, and even Hulk Hogan in his attempt to convince voters that he is one of the people. Trump even invited local Muslim leaders to speak at his campaign rally in Michigan before the election. Trump promoted himself as being a defacto Libertarian 'free market' rogue, who can stand up to the Deep State and CIA/NSA cancer that infests the US political system.

Trump promised to end the US proxy war on Russia, waged via the Kiev proxy monstrosity that Jack - er, ahem, Joe built. And to end the genocide on Palestinians being perpetrated by a war criminal occupying "state". Trump promised to release all documents relating to JFK's assassination; about Epstein's improbable self-immolation; and with Kash Patel as a side-show producing all the dirt on a certain intensely corrupt mountebank -- popularly known as Joe Biden. Trump promised to cut the rot out of the governmental cancer infesting the Beltway, until 'DOGE guy' Musk showed up at Trump's office looking vacant, sporting a black eye... while both stared at the oval office ceiling.

So Trump must be very embarrassed now. Because the current Merriweather Post mansion inhabitant prima donna Trump did nothing as promised.. with one single possible exception of partially dismantling the USAID regime change operation, a highly criminalized federal government/CIA blight on the world.

Trump is a failure... but that is not entirely his fault. There is very little that Trump or anyone can do about the Be'elzebub state that the political system of the former United States has morphed into, over many decades.  Certainly since 22 NOV 1963, but even long before. A massive wall of opposition exists from Wall Street and from very powerful Oligarchs, who oppose any attempt to reform the deadly warmongering profit machine that is the US today.

Anyway, if it is true that the Kiev regime had been planning this idiotic attack on Russia for eighteen months, then Trump and his staff must have known about this attack. Assuming this was no ad hoc idiocy inspired at the last moment by deranged SBU/Zelensky staff, then the United States was fully aware of this attack - and so was Trump...  who increasingly looks like a cardboard cutout for the Deep State.

So, take it as given that Trump knew about these incredibly stupid AFU drone attacks on Russia, from inside Russia, well before they happened. In conclusion of that, let's face it: the United States is at war with Russia. Why not admit that? We must. And Trump is doing nothing to effectively end it. Why? Because Wall Street's MIC/Deep State will not allow him to do so even though the people of the former United States overwhelmingly voted for that.

And Russia's leadership cannot be let off the hook either. Russia is well aware of the psychosis that rages deep within Washington. And yet by complying with an START treaty obligation - a treaty with the US who is at war with Russia - Russia allowed its TU-95 aircraft to sit exposed on the tarmac for Kiev to attack. Why does Russia comply with any treaty by an enemy sworn to destroy it, since April of 1945? Why does Russia trust the mad dogs of the Beltway under any circumstance, for any reason? The foregoing defies all logic.

Meanwhile, let's think of ideas about how Russia might respond to Kiev's lunatic attack. Despite a number of asymmetric kinetic ideas (not including the SMO for brevity) there is no point in writing about them -- with just two exceptions. What if... is it possible for western GPS systems to be jammed? Technically I have no idea, but have read about the possibility. And how about the same for Starlink?

A non-confrontational asymmetric option might be for Russia to end Turkstream gas flows to Europe.  Likewise the west's LBMA gold market is vulnerable and BRICS might take a more aggressive position versus the dollar US than it has heretofore.

Another 'peaceful' option would be to target Wall Street via bitcoin. Wall Street and Trump are champions of bitcoin. Hacking bitcoin would expose major US corporates and Exchange Traded funds -- and Bitcoin trusts -- to Wall Street disaster. Even though only a few bitcoin "whales" control its price as a derivative of fiat currency [1], fully two trillion in USD represents the BTC market capitalization.  To hack away two trillion USD in bitcoin - which I believe is potentially possible as time progresses - would certainly crash the crooks on Wall Street via their Dealer Bank bitcoin shares and ETF's; for example Xtrackers Galaxy Physical Bitcoin ETC Securities and JPM bitcoin ETF. [2]

Of course, none of the above explains about Trump, where he is, or what he is doing.  As the Mussolini-like leader  -- or so he seems to appear -- hopes to Make America Great Again, now Trump seems to have disappeared.

As written above, personally my hunch is that he is ashamed. Trump is ashamed that he cannot look down tin-pot bought-off politicians like Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal. Trump is ashamed that he cannot rule as he hoped to rule; ashamed that instead of making America great, he is forced by the true powers that be to eventually lead the USA to virtual financial and militarist oblivion.. and even Joe Biden could not compete with that.

So.. where is Trump after all?

[1]  Cointelegraph quote: The top 2% of Bitcoin addresses control over 90% of its supply, but most of them are cold wallets and exchanges. This means the actual number of individuals with whale-like influence is far lower than raw address data suggests.

[2]  Even so, where Washington sees any sign of influence that it cannot control (or cannot control the public narrative) as being a "threat to national security", such a strategy will contain inherent risk.

Steve Brown

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