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No, but they helped get him elected.
Not sure they did it on purpose, and it only affected the stupidest of Democrat voters, but any argument that the genocide in Palestine didn't impact our election is not being honest.
Sure, I mean people made the argument with Russia too for his first term. I still think it's absolutely insane to conclude that Russia controls western governments.
Of course, and I never made that argument. I can't give an educated estimate, but folks more knowledgeable than me on US sentiment and voting habits say that this one issue could have massively shifted the election. You could probably even made a case that the democrats would have been a better ally to Israel in the grand scheme of things.
Maybe not governments in general, but Trump and his party specifically, doesn't seem too insane.
I really don't see the need to try to see some dark unilateral control, when it's across the board the exact same thing we've identified for literal centuries: The shifting alliances of powers whose interests are aligned.
The sad irony of conspiracy theorists is that it's not paranoia (alone) that leads them into those rabbit holes, it's naivety. They think that there are dark forces that hijacked their otherwise fine institutions, but refuse to recognize that those institutions were never meant to serve them in the first place. Trump and his entourage aren't a cancer on a previously healthy organ, they are a healthy part of a parasite.
I'm not suggesting that America before Trump was a paragon of virtue. But our corrupt leaders and wealthy oligarchs made America powerful to serve their own ends.
Trump is not serving the ends of American oligarchs. He's serving the ends of Russian oligarchs.
He would honestly be dead if that was the case. He's in the white house celebrating how his friends made out like bandits out of the stock dips. Again, allegiances shift, it's a balancing game. He's serving oligarchs in general, the nationality barely matters these days, he's not supporting some Russian/Israeli/American local bourgeoisie, those are extinct. I don't know why you guys think nationality matters at all, they're allied to money. Imperialism is the current order, and modern capitalists are greater internationalists than your average commie.