This isn’t so much the case of Putin’s Russia as of Russia’s Putin....
Railsplitter Fella 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@Rail_splitter1
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Oct 14, 2026
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This isn’t so much the case of Putin’s Russia as of Russia’s Putin. Putin did not create the genocidal imperialism. He exemplifies it.
This is even more true for Trump and the U.S. It is comforting, but false, to think he is an aberration. Trump is America’s creation.🧵
This is even more true for Trump and the U.S. It is comforting, but false, to think he is an aberration. Trump is America’s creation.🧵
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There is a long arc that leads from the worst traitors and con men in U.S. history to Trump’s crimes. A long arc that leads from brutality, racism, slavery, white supremacy, know-nothingism, nativism, Jim Crow and the destruction of Native Americans to Trump in 2026. ⬇️
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From the secession of the Confederate traitors to the attempted overthrow of the U.S. federal government and Constitution. From the long history of propping up murderous sociopathic dictators to “cutting deals” with Vladimir Putin, and fawning over Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un. ⬇️
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From decades of essentially propping up Soviet power and condemning the “nationalism” of occupied nations who yearned to be free to Trump’s frenzied attempt to save Putin’s regime and make Ukraine capitulate. ⬇️
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From Charles Lindbergh, the Volksbund, George Wallace, Storm Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and the John Birch Society to Trump, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and the Nazi attire and tactics of Gregory Bovino. ⬇️
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From the Reagan era’s unbridled greed to Trump’s unbridled greed. From Nixon’s Southern Strategy, Reagan’s “welfare queen,” George H.W. Bush’s racist ads and Hillary Clinton’s “super predator” to Trump’s Haitians eating pets, ICE murderers and shackled people thrown into CECOT. ⬇️
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From the disaster in Vietnam to those in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran. From Kissinger’s war crimes to Trump’s and Hegseth’s. From electing one candidate with no experience on star power (Obama) to electing another candidate with no experience and lots of star power (Trump).⬇️
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From many decades of angry, far-right billionaires patiently plotting the takeover of America’s governments, federal and local, to angry, far-right billionaires buying Trump his election and themselves anything they need through laws and regulations. ⬇️
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Nothing is new. Just because some current deformities may be more condensed, concentrated and egregious than ever before doesn’t make them either aberrant or new. It makes them the logical outcome of a long history of such deformities. ⬇️
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These are highly uncomfortable topics for most. What does it mean for American democracy, its rule of law and its sanctified constitutional protections when Congress and a part of the judiciary commit a collective suicide, and when high crimes are committed with impunity?⬇️
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The question contains its answer.
I’ll only say that for the future of the United States, and by necessity the free world, it is existentially important to face the truth free from pseudo-patriotic indoctrination and delusions of exceptionalism.⬇️
I’ll only say that for the future of the United States, and by necessity the free world, it is existentially important to face the truth free from pseudo-patriotic indoctrination and delusions of exceptionalism.⬇️
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This isn’t a plea for resignation. The United States contains the seeds of its destruction just as it does the seeds of its greatness (the actual one, not the counterfeit MAGA version). The question is, which will be allowed to flourish and blossom.⬇️
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There is a group in Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang and Tehran ready to cheer for the first scenario, that of the seeds of destruction taking hold. With much local help, they’ve been assiduous gardeners. It’s up to millions of decent people to remove and burn the vile weeds for good.
