I could see it being a move of desperation to hold on to power. I’ve never seen an American President so infatuated with dictatorial oppressive regimes and their “leaders” (aka rulers). I guess no one wants to admit we are in a caste system, with our rights as citizens of democracy being continually stripped in the name of the almighty dollar. I say this as someone with considerably above average means. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of corruption in our government that is so deeply ingrained that it will be extremely difficult to ever eradicate. The day of reckoning will come when we have spent ourselves into oblivion, bankrolling private jets and golf trips for our self-serving politicians, only to have ignored the fact that American influence is rapidly declining globally.
As international capitalism continues to be perverted with an unquenchable thirst for money and power among our nation’s wealthiest, eventually the majority of the world will become impoverished and left in ruin as the world’s elite flee to the relative safety of whatever corner of they world they’ve bought for themselves. In the age of the internet and global interconnectivity, one’s national alliance, especially those with nearly unlimited financial means, becomes irrelevant.
Ultimately, however, the exploitation of the majority of humanity for the ultra-ultra-wealthy will be a travesty for the entirety of the human race. When we are all reduced back to meeting basic survival needs - finding food, clothing, shelter, and water, and when the world’s fiat currencies are finally (once again) exposed to be what they are (a massive wealth-transferring pyramid scheme and ultimately a worthless piece of paper), we’ll really see who has the grit to persevere. I’m willing to bet on yet another iteration of history in which the ordinary citizens and fabric of our collective nations rise against blatant oppression and demand liberty. And so the cycle repeats....