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But agent of all the world's reactionary oligarchy. Oil sheiks, pharma tycoons, techbros, and of course Russian mobster oligarchy in both business and politics. What flag they fly doesn't matter, it's all about the money. And power. And the ability to control the rest of humanity as chattel.
All having the desire to create their dystopia, end progressivism and diversity as we know it, and wanting to have their money roam anywhere and spend how much they want while the rest of the impoverished suffer further.
Despite some losses in Ukraine, despite embargoes and boycotts, Putin is still feeling like he's winning in the propaganda war that was very long in the making since Khrushchev, as he used all the skillsets he had as a master spy, and years or even months away from excitedly watching the US collapse in the mire of its own hubris.
edit: Can you stop talking about Trump doing this on his fucking own? Bastard got slotted as a candidate to become Iblis of the world by Roy Cohn, and just happened to dovetail with Russian geopolitical interests, specifically Dugin's concept of Russian world order.
You wanna know who's really gonna win this once the dust settles? China, which I'm sure if their idea of a New World Order prevails based on trade (with strings attached), will have dozens of developing countries and even some developed countries under its fold. And that's not a benevolent setup for the future, just yet another Gilded Age but with Xi Jinping characteristics.
Trump is nobody's agent. He is a demented narcissistic psychopath who craves attention and adulation. Since he has no understanding of love or friendship, the only tools he has at his disposal to get it is power and dominance. He wants to be a "winner", which to him means he needs to make everyone else around him "losers." By hurting them, by degrading them, by taking away their trappings of wealth.
There are other people who try to use Trump, because he's very easy to manipulate when you understand him. He has no principles or standards other than those I described, so there's lots of obvious buttons to press. The problem is that none of those buttons stay pressed. Even if Trump had the mental capacity to remember things from day to day it wouldn't matter to him because no deal or position he holds lasts longer than the moment he thinks of some way to get something "better." Trump can be manipulated in the same manner that a handful of mud can be manipulated. It won't stay in the shape you put it in and it's constantly slipping through your fingers.
Putin may think that he's responsible for Trump's actions, but only by coincidence and never in any sort of long-term strategic sense. And the reason Trump is in charge of America is because the Americans wanted him to be.