With a senile president, officially, you don’t know who to communicate with and negotiate with. The deep state is still there running things, but they’re like a shadow looming over. Just like you can’t deal with a senile guy, you also can’t deal with a vague entity found on the limits of what’s definable.
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Putin still thinks the world runs on spheres of interests like it used to in the late 19th century.
It doesn't?
No it doesn’t. There’s just America’s interests among the western countries. Everyone else follows along.
Whereas in the late 19th century, you had the European powers making alliances and counter alliances and shifting alliances 3 times a day like it’s a chess game, and each country’s interests were independent of the other.