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I keep thinking more and more about the following:

The inner circle around Putin considers him to be a ruthless, brutal, brazen, merciless, insecure, and cynical individual—someone who is extremely beneficial to them, allowing them to become ultra-rich, monstrous oligarchs, looters of enormous wealth and property, kleptomaniacs of the highest order. Their attitude toward Putin is purely pragmatic, selfish, opportunistic, and greedy. They have no illusions about what kind of ruler he is—just the most cunning, the most ruthless, the most bloodthirsty, and the most vile among them all. He outplayed them, seized power, took absolute control, and now they are entirely dependent on him, trembling before him. End of story.

At the same time, the elite surrounding Trump has developed an absurd, pre-modern, fanatical, and blind faith in his exceptionalism, in his incredible qualities, his colossal insight, his genius for power, his raw instinct for mega-risky ventures and actions, and his managerial drive—his ability to emerge victorious despite all the sins and transgressions he has committed. He seems almost as if he is "not of this world"...

At the core of this fanatical and blind faith lies a great deal of irrationality, paranormality, esotericism, cult-like devotion—a mad mixture of paganism, totemism, and shamanism. Precisely like the attitude of the high-ranking Nazi clique around Hitler (I am not comparing Trump and Hitler in terms of ideology or views, but rather the way their inner circles regard them).

And just as in Germany in the 1930s (we can add Italy in the 1920s), in the U.S. in the 2020s, this fanatical and blind belief in Trump’s "chosen" status is being transmitted from the top down—to the ordinary electorate. An electorate that is, by nature, short-sighted and easily manipulated, prone to rapid excitement, and ultimately left to pay the full price for the political orgy.

I still cannot figure out where this will lead in the U.S., but such manias, obsessions, delusions, and mental distortions within the elite, which then seep down the vertical into the common electorate, give birth to terrifying and monstrous phenomena and processes. In Germany, this later degenerated into what became "ordinary" fascism...

Very bad things are happening in the U.S. Very bad!
And these very bad things are still only in their early stages. Though their end is not yet in sight, in the end, they may turn out to be devastating for the country.
And, tragically, not only for it.

God, save America!
February 11, 2025