Nice Country, See. Shame if Something were to Happen to it

It’s not politics at all. Oh, there are people around Donald Trump using the power of politics to satisfy or pay off various political interests. But, no, not for Trump himself. For Trump, the United States government is just a business. And he’s CEO – with all the unchecked power that comes with it. The power, tops among other things, to expand the business: to buy assets, to intimidate, dominate and defeat competitors, to make more money. For Donald Trump, that’s what it’s all about.

Dominance and defeat of competitors is how you do business, isn’t it? It’s the American way. Trump has just shockingly scaled it up.

As he says: Who the hell gave Panama the income from the canal? A defeat for the U.S. We’ll take over again and get the revenue back. Greenland? Valuable minerals. We’ll threaten to take over. Or, how about a deal? A deal for their minerals in exchange for defense – or something more wonderful than they’ve ever seen. Their current owner is not doing a good job. We have the money. Their lives will be richer than ever before, richer even than they can imagine.

Ukraine? Now there’s a mineral rich area. Place we can buy. Gotta be for sale, exchange for some defense dollars. They already owe us billions. We need to get something back for that. Peace deal? Cease fire? Whatever. Putin can have his share. We’ll have three fourths of the land and the minerals. That’s what our world class tech companies say they want. I’ll close the Ukraine deal. Musk and Peter Thiel and my tech bros, they’ll pay me and the Party and the family. I can make sure of that. It’s all business.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/04/15/nice-country-see-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it/