“Power and money of course do drive people crazy. So why shouldn’t people gain power and wealth through being crazy?” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005.

America is in the grips of two absolutely crazy men who have acquired power and wealth by being screw balls. The entire world, America included, will pay a heavy price for the re-election of Donald Duck, sorry, Trump as the current President. Millions will die prematurely globally in the four years the American leaders are in power.

Surprisingly, that is exactly what the two of them want. When Trump campaigned on the promise to Make America Great Again, the Americans the rest of the world thought were intelligent were not asking questions and did not take a proper look at the man who was making all those promises. Hitler also vowed to make Germany great again. Germans failed to ask the right questions; and they did not pay attention to the pledge to implement a final solution to all German problems.

They heartily elected Hitler; and at the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins, over 70 million people died worldwide and the Holocaust terminated the lives of 6 million Jews – all in the bid to make Germany great again. When Trump packed people into Air Force transport planes to be deposited in various countries, sometimes not their own, as those forcefully sent to Panama, the US President, like Hitler, knew in advance, what would be ultimate fate of those people – DEATH.

“Power tends to corrupt; and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Great men are almost always bad men” – Lord Acton, 1834-1902.

Most people quoting Lord Acton seldom go beyond the first line. The second line is just as potent. Human history always ascribed greatness to the most heartless butchers of people – Alexander of Macedonia, Catherine of Russia, Napoleon, Elizabeth I, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Genghis Khan of China etc. There are very few monuments erected for peacemakers. Our world has always rewarded mass murderers. Kill one person and you are a criminal; gas 6 million to death, and a Musk will sooner or later show the Nazi sign of approval.

The minimum to be a killer is one; there is no limit you can get killed to be a hero. When Trump ordered the closure of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, established on November 3, 1961, through the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, by the Kennedy Administration, he and Musk had the data with which to plan legalised genocide on a scale even Hitler would envy. They knew how many people were employed, directly and indirectly, by the agency; they were aware of the over 200 million individuals worldwide benefiting from the programmes administered by the USAID. A

bove all, they have a rough idea how many millions will die very soon, without firing a shot or building a gas chamber, merely by deleting USAID. They went ahead and did it because that unprecedented calamity is precisely what they want – DEATH. When Trump took steps to drastically cut US support for Ukraine, including sharing of satellite gathered intelligence, he knew what would follow. The first country which was part of the dismantled Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, seeking freedom, Trump was not only repaying the Kremlin for favours extended to him in the past; he knew what would follow in Ukraine – DEATH.

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“Having power destroys the sanity of the powerful. It allows their irrationalities to leave the sphere of the dream and come into the real world” – Saul Bellow



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