You say the people that really run etc….they did while Obummer and Sleepy Joe were in the Oval Office, but now Trump is, the US is no longer under their control…Putin never was…hence the war…Now Putin and Trump can combine to crush them……and Putin has no qualms, even if the Donald balks….I’d say they are pretty much done……
Plus the Globa’s have lost the vast bulk of their citizens.
