[−]Choad_20261104 · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:11 UTC ·
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I feel like the entire current administration are the last bagholders in the musical chairs that were connected to exploits (CIA, etc) to arms traders and other nefarious dealers over the past 70 years involving necessary but nasty US activities that protected Americans. They are acting to protect even bigger unseen fish as well...who know who they are - likely some members of the opposing party as well. They were caught dead-to-rights as small time actors in the schemes and were offered a join-or-die proposition. On the way out: guaranteed pardons.
[−]cmrdporcupine · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:36 UTC ·
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It's pretty clear they're mostly acting in the interests of the oil & gas sector. Which is broadly international and not just American, and also heavily tied into Russia.
So, given climate change: absolutely antithetical to the broader interests of the population and explicitly short-termist.
Those CIA exploits directly led to events like 9/11 and the associated Forever War in the Middle-East. If they were trying to protect Americans, they did a terrible job at it.
In reality they were trying to protect American capital, and trying to expand its global imperialist influence through violence. If American investments were at risk due to democracies electing left-wing leaders, they would happily stage a coup to put an investor-friendly religious extremist dictator in place - which of course couldn't possibly backfire...
So, given climate change: absolutely antithetical to the broader interests of the population and explicitly short-termist.
In reality they were trying to protect American capital, and trying to expand its global imperialist influence through violence. If American investments were at risk due to democracies electing left-wing leaders, they would happily stage a coup to put an investor-friendly religious extremist dictator in place - which of course couldn't possibly backfire...