Summary
JD Vance’s confrontational role in Friday’s Oval Office clash with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy became a flashpoint for the US-European relationship.
Vance provoked Zelenskyy by accusing him of leading “propaganda tours,” escalating tensions before Trump joined in.
Critics suggest this confrontation was deliberately orchestrated to damage US-Ukraine relations, noting immediate and synchronized Republican messaging afterward.
European officials backed Zelenskyy while expressing concern that the US is siding with Putin. Following the meeting, Trump officials indicated they might cut all military aid to Ukraine, marking a potential collapse of the transatlantic alliance.
Safe to assume this is Thiel then? Or the TechBroFuedalists?
Is that the Vance faction?
I’m genuinely asking:
Why does Thiel/techbros want closer ties with Russia and to seemingly break the postwar imperial status quo?
Is there any Republican faction that wants to maintain it? I’m guessing maybe old hands like McConnell?
This seems to be the first big Flashpoint for the neoliberals to actually stand up and push back, via corporate media.
They want kingdoms.
A return to “the good ol’ days” of feudal lords, jus primae noctis, and plebs to work into early graves.
They call them network states.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was kinda a “fire sale” of government assets… They just got “sold” (effectively handed) to people who were favoured by the leaders of the time. This was how these Russian oligarchs came to be.
I think this is where the wind is blowing in the USA. Tear apart anything the government does and hand the responsibility for those things as private contracts, and to just hand those contracts to whomever seems like they’d be a good soldier.
Basically, rip all of the copper out of the walls, sell it at 10% market rate to the PayPal mafia, and then let them sell you copper-as-a-service.
I think its already too late for them to push back… They got lured in by market deregulation and if they revolt now, they see their capital in danger (seized, redistributed by force of policy, etc.).
Fascism and neoliberalism can also get along quite well.