Rufus Shinra
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I believe your analysis is deeply flawed because you are projecting the Polish political situation on the US when they have nothing in common anymore: this isn't PR anymore, hasn't been for a decade or so. The thing is, the Washington caste has been brought into the absolute, undisputable certainty that reality doesn't apply to them anymore, that they shape History through their will and that the rest of us will just study what they did. This isn't comparable to Poland, UK, France or whatever, because they have the combination of imperial hubris and a sanctuary History that doesn't rear its head with harsh lessons. Sorry to hammer this, but you cannot project what you are experiencing in Poland to the United States of America.Of course, everything they do is in support of their protestant fundamentals which are base for shaping their geostartegy plus of course, their own interests. Trump is an abberation in all these only in case of his cultivated public image of quintessential internet troll. On one hand no one can deny it was an efficient way. The same goes for their congress. As fallacial they may look like, some literal morons aside, most of that is a PR game mixed with radical chest thumping. It is vulgar, brash, anti-itelligent and aggressive, actually looking more like something from Spain, Weimar Republic or Italy, but it is thought out long term policy aimed on destruction of internall dissent to solidification of the rule. It is the same model you have now in Poland actually. Difference is only in fact that Trump was ousted after one term, in Poland not.
In US case it is a trend that actually is spinning more and more since 1980 and Reagan. Not that previously they were better, but this is the most recent and most important.
Also their internal documents and specialist revievs usually are meritoric and have zero religious or ideological context (aside ane sentence preamble about defence of democracy/way of life/position in world affairs, but frankly everyone put the same - Westerners usually use morals, Easterers peace and security/enviroment for growth), but these are executive documents for approved policies which in turn are based on cultural morals and norms which are cognitive lenses for perception of reality.
Their internal documents and specialist reviews aren't that useful either because unlike most democracies, the US goes fully with the spoil systems and the elected positions for the higher administration, meaning that those who write these reports aren't the ones taking in fine the decisions: remember that our countries elect a government when the US elects an administration, and this difference is bigger in impact than you might believe. No Sir Humphrey, no ENArques entranched in the system to bring rationality. The White House, for example, has in theory a scientific advisor group made of some of the brightest minds on Earth to give the sitting POTUS a geopolitical/scientific analysis of events and possible outcomes, but under Trump, for example, that council was left empty for more than 18 months. Biden? He hasn't been allowed to send more than half a dozen ambassadors since his election: there is NO United States ambassador to France at the moment, for example.
Everything you consider so much as granted to not even think about it? It is NOT present in the US. Their system is so dysfunctional at the moment that the rational safeguards, the necessary cogs in the machine, are not even broken but absent altogether, no matter who is sitting in the White House. Then there is the elephant in china shop of a GOP that has been entirely transformed by Trump, with even the veterans and the regular heads of the party machine entirely subservient to his vision.
To understand how fucked up the situation currently is, the ambassador list is a pretty good thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassadors_of_the_United_States
Order the list by "Confirmed" and see how many are blank:
Of all the Great Powers, the US only has one ambassador, to Russia. And guess what, the rest of the administration is in that bad a shape.
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