They call him TACO Trump now, but Vladimir Putin called it in 2017. American presidents might cluck and strut when they're running for office, but they all chicken out once they suit up. As Vlad the Revealer said back then,

I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

Ain't it the truth? Trump clucked about how he'd end the Ukraine War in a day, but six months later, it's his war now. The men in suits gathered around, plucked the old cock, and made him TACO Trump. Trump Always Chickens Out.

The Pointless Presidency

There is actually no more point speaking to an American president than to the Ronald McDonald. Since Ronald Reagan, they've been actors, and Trump is just the dumbest Reagan reboot imaginable.

Even a loose-cannon clown like Donald Trump gets grounded when the suits gather around. As Putin said, when a person is elected they may have some ideas, but then the men with briefcases arrive… And what do those briefs say? That America is at war with Russia, and always has been. At this point they're just attacking Russia on muscle memory. Even the old Cold War heads said NATO shouldn't keep expanding, but imperialism has its own impervious energy. Elections don't change this any more than advertising changes any other programming on the TV.

American elections are, in fact, just public bribery festivals, the selling of the President. Like the book, except no one reads anymore. American politicians openly take bribes (white word: donations) and then use them to literally advertise how well bribed they are, in public. Even a rich citizen like Trump can't pay for his own election campaign, and if you're not paying, you're the product, innit? Trump 45 is no different from Trump 47, or More Senile Reagan (46), or Black Reagan (44). Trump is rolled off the same assembly line from the same military-industrial complex doing the same things. Simultaneously militarizing the world and deindustrializing America, which doesn't actually make sense, but fuck it, as long as it makes money.

Generalissimo Dwight Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, after he'd already crossed the Rubicon himself and left this turd on America's doorstep. Ike (I don't like) said, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” This wasn't a warning, it was a promise. Perhaps the last promise an American president delivered on, though he didn't mean it that way.

Ike qualified his statement, singing Scarborough Fair, saying, “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals.” If you believe that, I've got an acre of land “between the saltwater and the sea strands” to sell you. America was not even a basic democracy back then (if you could colored people) and is now basically braindead. As Osho said, describing America's Democracy™, “Because democracy basically means… government by the people, of the people, for the people… but the people are retarded.” Forget the people even, just look at the president. They're not sending their best, as Trump said.

The further fact is that America, since its genocidal founding, never had peaceful methods and goals. It was always war and after World War II, it was war on the world forever, that's how America made its bones. War is all America is, it's all it knows, and at this point it's killing on muscle memory alone. ‘After’ World War II, America took up the mantle of White Empire and continued colonization, only rebranded as Freedom© and Democracy™, in the typical smooth-talking American way. Like aw shucks, just helping out, while girding the world with military bases and helping themselves.

Putin Calls White Empire

Putin called this as well, when he said in 2024, “The point is that this so-called ”golden billion“ has been practically parasitising on other peoples for centuries, 500 years. They tore apart the unfortunate peoples of Africa, they exploited Latin America, they exploited the countries of Asia, and of course no one has forgotten that.”

He pointed out that America inherited and enforces this continuing state of affairs, saying, “there is a very strong desire in Western elites to freeze the current unjust state of affairs in international affairs. They've spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must realise that the vampire ball is ending.” This aptly describes ‘post’ war America, which continued waging war on the world, only calling it a ‘cold’ war. This described only their hearts, and their love of cold hard cash above all.

Putin said this but he didn't always know it. After the fall of the USSR he naively thought he could work with America, as did many Russians. He might have joined White Empire if they'd have him, but like Hitler, they saw Slavs as beneath them and fit only for servitude. As Putin said in his most recent (2025) interview,

It was clear from the early 2000s. Yet we had illusions, I did too, which were about the following. Me and many other at the time believed that the problems and relations between the Soviet Union and the so-called West [White Empire] were primarily ideological differences. On one side, a communist regime which was considered by many as tyranny, the other, the democratic world led by the United States.

Strangely enough, I worked for almost 20 years in the Soviet Union’s intelligence, I also thought that the main contradictions were of an ideological nature. But the Soviet Union collapsed, there was no communist regime, yet the dismissive attitude towards the strategic interests of the Russia Federation remained not just dismissive, but it was all tied to the clear desire to achieve geopolitical advantages. Moreover, even when I became President, I didn’t understand everything right away.

I began to convey to my Western collegues, look you do one thing and say another, here is the proof. Then I presented this proof. They nodded and said, yes yes, we’ll sort it out now. And nothing happened. It was quite the opposite. It became obvious to me that ideology might have had some significance but essentially all these contradictions are based on geopolitical interest. That was the main thing.

Geopolitical Interest

This is an important point. If you look at the enemies of White Empire, they have wildly different ideological systems—Islam in Iran, communism in China, and honestly capitalism in Russia. All they have in common is that they assert their own sovereignty. What unites the enemies of Empire is simply their independence from Empire. Independence is the problem, not any particular ideology. You can, in fact, have any ideology you want—from Al Qaeda Islamism to dictatorship—Democracy™ is a marketing slogan, not a real thing. Just don't have any ideas of getting independent. For that, White Empire will coup, besiege, and bomb you mercilessly.

I'm old enough to remember when Putin was not evil, when they thought he was someone they could ‘work with’. But then it became clear that he was actually working for his people, and that they cannot forgive. What the Empire calls autocratic is simply any leader who doesn't bow to their authority. They trademarked democracy, don't you know? And then the propaganda against Putin started, and the build up to war. And now he we are. Putin called it.

You may think this is a hagiography of Putin, but of all the Resistance ideologies mentioned, his is my least favorite. It's basically just capitalism, but with a government that gives a shit about its people. I don't want to be ruled by Vlad and he doesn't want to rule me, which I respect. As Putin said, “I am simply working in the interests of Russia, in the interests of our people. But I don't feel like I'm some sort of master of the world's destinies. Believe me, nothing even close. I am just doing my duty to Russia and to our people, who consider Russia their Motherland.”

That's it. I quote Putin not because I'm a particular fan of his ideology, because we're beyond ideologies now, aren't we? It's just interests, the interest of the White Empire in maintaining authority over everyone, and the interest of ‘authoritarians’ in running their own countries. This is the central conflict in the world today, and Vladimir Putin is central to it. The difference is an Empire that somehow has an interest thousands of kilometers away, and nations trying to exist within their own skins. Putin is a global leader in this, simply existing where he is, and trying to improve the lives of his own people.

For this, Vladimir Putin is widely condemned by the Empire, but at this point—two years into a livestreamed genocide—you should take every condemnation from these vampires as a reading recommendation for humans. We're beyond ideological arguments now, aren't we? Especially from shadowy men in suits that rape children at home while killing them abroad.

You don't have to agree with Putin on everything (I don't), but he's just trying to preserve his independent homeland, which we should all aspire to in our own homes, in our own independent ways, of course. Empire just repeats his name over and over and expects people to salivate like dogs of war, but as they say in southern America, that dog don't hunt anymore. At least not round here, in the Global South. Putin's truthin sometimes. Just listen to him for yourself.

• 2017: Men In Suits Interview
• 2024: Vampire Ball Interview
• 2025: No Ideology Interview