My point isn't that Trump is the exact same. My point is that, ultimately, he serves the same role, only at a different point in the decline of the US Empire. Time is not static, with each day and second that passes, the world changes, and these changes reinforce further changes. Quantity turns into quality.

If you look below, @lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca and I came to a relative understanding. I'm not trying to say there's nothing unique about Trump, my point is to draw connections to what is actually similar. This mirrors how Marx radically transformed how we understand capitalism, by looking at how it was similar to feudalism and connected to it, not just by looking at the differences.

As for the Krasnov jab, ultimately the narrative that Trump is a Russian puppet is rather baseless. The war in Ukraine would already be over, and Russia would no longer be sanctioned. It seems this narrative is trying to make Russia a scapegoat for Statesian imperialism, and make it seem like it isn't a core aspect of the way the US works.