I don't think they ever represented 1% of the population. How were you expecting to notice them?
I saw some in person, by chance.
There are videos of when they demonstrated in the streets of Kiev. I doubt most of them are still alive. Just useful idiots.
Maybe. I suppose some extremes are possible in some places sometimes. But then it should not take a war to take them out, should it? They could have been used for playing war on TV, as I mentioned. That much I can believe.
El Salvador was obviously much worse (if we believe the TV, because I have never been there) but it was fixed nice and clean with no war, and by who? Certainly the experienced and well organised Russians were nowhere around.
It shouldn't. But Russia also profits from war as much as NATO.
War is good for business, for everyone.
Bukele is an exception to the rule. Not your average career politician.
My point is, that if we take what people like Trump and Bukele are speaking or implying at face value, we are supposed to believe that they achieved what they achieved almost alone or in an allience with no more than a handful other public white hats. Since we have not seen them personally neither with guns nor shovels, it means they did it by speaking and writing, i.e. convincing masses of others to do the right thing. And bitcoin and things like oil prices were an unrelated random occurances helping them.
Well, it does not work that way. Let's take Bukele's case. There was a country hopelessly corrupt: every single citizen was raceteered by literal tatooed thugs. Killing loads of people every day. For decades. Police and army were all in with these mafias and gangs and couldn't and didn't do anything other than imitate their job, by still having some supposedly criminal prisoners and operating courts and all that while there were 2% of population holding hostage the rest. Politicians and bureaucrats were all the same.
Then comes in a naive faced Bukele, speaks great ideas, writes great papers, and in no time convinces the entire corrupt machine of bureaucrats, police and army to do the right thing, lose their bellies, fight the 2% and win like Steven Seagal in the movies without so much as a scratch on either side! And while magically having convinced these guys to drop all their bellies and corruption schemes, he fails to convince even the local media to be on his side. Because that is what the global narrative is and it must remain untouched. This is ridiculuous. There must be:
1. A much bigger alliance than a handful behing Bukele before he even starts
2. They must be very powerful at all levels and capacities to achieve what they did so smoothly
3. To have that power thay must must be incredibly richer and willing to spend than their adversaries.
The same applies to Trump and USA.
Nothing is what it seems at the first glimps.
JFK may have been in reallity much closer to what he appeared, and look how it turned out for him.
I don't think your analysis of El Salvador makes sense.
It's a very small country, you're comparing it to the US, doesn't make sense.
1. The problem was really easy to solve.
2. "without a scratch on either side"? I don't think so, high risk bet, he violated the Constitution, he risked everything.
3. Mainstream media is cancer and should be disregarded.
