For quite some time the #Democrats have maintained that Russia meddled in the American elections of 2016 which brought in @realDonaldTrump as #POTUS.
Trump denies the allegation and the reports to make his election culpable of influence have not been as decisive.
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I'm starting to believe they were not wrong. In fact, recent developments suggest a conspiracy of epic proportions.
This is my theory:
Russia - a declining power has become the lackey to China. Putin made personal favours to Trump in that build up.
Ever since his inauguration, Trump has been withdrawing the US from its leadership of the Rules Based Liberal Order of which the UN is the centrepiece.
Trump at a meeting of the UN General Assembly said: the future does not belong to globalists but patriots.
Consistently presenting the argument of Make America Great and and America first, Putin through Trump has eased America out of its role of leading a Rules Based World Order.
Guess who's deliberately stepping into those roles?
China.
What agreements and Institutions have Trump pulled the US out of?
Paris Climate Agreement - more on this later.
Trans Pacific Partnership
#UNESCO | #UNHRC | #UNRWA
Trump even got the US out of: Arms Control Treaties with Russia
These are huge vacuums and if you are not seeing a pattern just yet, then pay attention. Trump has weakened NATO (a military treaty with Europe) by planning to defund and withdraw.
Trump intends for the US to leave the WTO.
Who does this if he isn't being manipulated?
As though these were not bad enough for the rest of the free world, the 45th president of the US defunded the WHO in the middle of the Chinese virus19.
It is curious to note that in the build up leading to the lockdowns, Trump had praised Xi's handling of the virus.
But as facts continued to leak in media tight Beijing and in an election year, the Donald began to change his rhetoric.
Make no mistake, the biggest player in a world where America is withdrawing is China.
With China's stand on human rights, press freedom, flexible conscience on the rule of law, abhorrence of civil liberties and its recent dishonouring of agreements in Hong Kong, one wonders what sort of world it would be when the CCP presents a Chinese World Order.
The last 75 years has not been any of perfection or an utopia but to discard this model for one where the new intended leader abhors the basis for the already made progress, then we can as well say goodbye to liberty, free trade and justice as we know it.
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