There's a reason the Trump Administration isn't fighting the pandemic.

It's the same reason the cabinet is populated with people expressly opposed to the missions of their agencies.

Trump isn't there to help anyone. He's there to destroy government as a means to govern.
Trump isn't president. He's an anti-president. His only mission is to remove government as an impediment to rampant corruption and profit.

He's not going to use his resources to help you. He's only concerned with using them to help himself.

Stop expecting anything else.
People have it all wrong. We're all thinking of nations like the ones we've grown up in, the ones in our history books.

There are no nations to people like Trump and Putin. Nations are only cogs in a giant machine of profit and grift.

They're playing an entirely different game.
Everyone wants to talk about treason. About betraying countries. These require ideologies of patriotism and respect for laws and basic decency.

Ideology is extinct for Trump. It's why he can be on three sides of one issue. Politics is a nuisance, a facade he has to keep up.
Trump isn't an agent of another nation. To him, there are no nations, simply bases for profit and power. We're in the past, expecting him to behave like a normal politician, an actual president.

We're rubes to him. Relics of an old age he can continually sell on nostalgia.
Make America Great Again is the same fake promise Putin made to Russians desperate to resurrect the USSR.

It's just a nostalgia trap hiding a hypercapitalistic corporate raid of government by criminals looking to capitalize off outdated notions in a globalist system.
To get out of this crisis, we have to do two things at once.

Understand that Trump and Putin are playing a game that takes place beyond our concept of nationhood and politics WHILE ALSO continuing to protect our concept of nationhood and politics.

It's difficult by design.
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