"The Breaking Of Trump’s Prefrontal Cortex"
by Stucky
Excerpt: "When high-level security advisers emerge from an intelligence summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris confessing to a literal “sense of vertigo” - looking down into the abyss of simultaneous, systemic collapse across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and domestic Western energy markets - the crisis has passed beyond standard geopolitics.
The epicenter of this vertigo remains Washington. But as constitutional attorney Robert Barnes laid bare in an extraordinary, forensic dialogue with Alexander Mercouris, the man sitting in the Oval Office is no longer the transactional, realistic dealmaker of 2016. The pragmatic populist who understood that the Middle East was “just sand and blood,” who solicited multiple dissenting opinions, and who built a broad working-class anti-war coalition has been replaced by a figure consumed by messianic grandiosity and neurological decline.
The modern Trump does not operate with a “Plan B.” In his disordered psychology, Plan Bs are for losers. Surrounded exclusively by sycophants, having systematically purged every anti-interventionist realist - from Joe Kent and Tulsi Gabbard to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Michael Anton - Trump has retreated into pure fantastical thinking.
As revealed in leaked interviews for the upcoming volume Regime Change, Trump had aides print out lists of historical figures he demanded to be compared to: not Washington, not Jefferson, not Lincoln, but Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Napoleon, and Stalin. He genuinely convinced himself that in a single year, he could conquer the Persians, defeat the Russian army on the steppe, and cow China into submission.
Instead, he has walked into an unmitigated strategic catastrophe: the most unpopular conflict in American history, an unravelling economy crushed by $6.20 diesel, and an impending midterm wipeout that will leave his presidency facing certain impeachment and potential removal."
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