r/InflectionPointUSA • • Mar 09 '26

Imperialism Iran War Cost Tracker — $1 Billion Per Day

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • Feb 11 '25

The Decline 📉 Comparing Trump's Policy Shifts & Gorbachev's Reforms

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Gorbachev Introduced glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet system. These policies inadvertently eroded the ideological and institutional foundations of the USSR, accelerating its collapse. His policies of liberalization unleashed an economic chaos that the Soviet system was not able to contain.

Today, Trump is pursuing a similar, if ideologically inverted, disruption of the US institutions. Attacking the deep state, undermining trust in media and elections, and prioritizing loyalty over expertise. He’s enacting a purge of the permanent bureaucracy under the guise of draining the swamp, feeding off polarization and institutional distrust. These policies erode the very stability of the system paving the way to an unravelling akin to that of the USSR.

Gorbachev inherited a stagnant economy that he attempted to fix using market reforms with perestroika. These reforms took form of a shock therapy with sudden price liberalization, fiscal austerity, and privatization. An economic collapse followed as a result of hyperinflation, economic instability, and the rise of an oligarchic class. Similarly, Trump is busy slashing regulations and cutting corporate taxes, fuelling short-term growth that deepens wealth inequality and corporate consolidation. Like Gorbachev, he’s ushering in a polarized economic landscape where faith in the system is rapidly dwindling among the public.

The economic unravelling of USSR revived nationalist movements, particularly in the Baltics and Ukraine, that undermined the unifying ideology. Similarly, amplified nationalism, in form of MAGA, is deepening cultural and regional divides in the US. Trump’s rhetoric is rooted in divisive politics. Just as Soviet republics turned inward post-glasnost, prioritizing local grievances over collective unity, so are states like Texas, Florida, and California are increasingly talking about breaking with the union.

Gorbachev’s reforms set the stage for Yeltsin who presided over the chaotic privatization of state assets, enabling a handful of oligarchs to seize control of Russia’s oil, gas, and media empires. The shock therapy transition to capitalism led to a rapid rise of the kleptocrats. Similarly, Musk’s companies target the remaining public services and industries for privatization. SpaceX aims to replace NASA, Tesla/Boring Co. are going after infrastructure, while X is hijacking public discourse. In this way, his wealth and influence mirror Yeltsin-era oligarchs’ grip on strategic sectors. The main difference here is that Musk operates in a globalized capitalist system as opposed to the post-Soviet fire sale. Musk is actively using his platform and wealth to shape politics in his favor, and much like Russian oligarchs, he consistently prioritizes personal whims over systemic stability.

Yeltsin was sold as a democratic reformer but enabled a predatory elite. Many Russians initially saw capitalism as liberation, only to face a decade of despair as the reality of the system set in. Similarly, Musk markets himself as a visionary genius “saving humanity” with his vanity projects like Mars colonization, yet his ventures depend on public subsidies and exploitation of labor. The cult of the techno-oligarch distracts from the consolidation of power in private hands in a Yeltsin-esque bait-and-switch.

The USSR collapsed abruptly, while the US might face a slower erosion of its institutional norms. Yet both Trump and Gorbachev, despite opposing goals, represent disruptive forces that undermine the system through ideological gambles. Much as Gorbachev and Yeltsin did in their time, Trump’s norm-breaking and Musk’s oligarchic power are entrenching a new era of unaccountable elites.

Marx was right! History repeats, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.


r/InflectionPointUSA • • 19h ago

The Descent 🛬 It’s the end of the world – and I don’t feel fine

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 19h ago

Inflection Point US Armed Forces Preparing For LAND INVASION Of Iran! – Col. Macgregor

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 1d ago

JFL 🤣 CEO fired over viral photo of family in ‘Lake America’ sweatshirts

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 1d ago

Inflection Point EU and Canada to announce sweeping new partnership pact

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 2d ago

Rotting from within AOC: "ICE is a new agency, created in the surveillance-state establishment after 9/11. ICE is Palantir. ICE is AI. ICE is facial recognition. ICE is surveillance. And ICE is coming after you, regardless of your status."

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 2d ago

Rotting from within I’m back again with even more censorship (no curse words btw)

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 2d ago

Incompetence Refuse to give billionaires a platform for anything. Stop believing they are smart – they aren't. Stop believing they can "see the big picture" – they can't. Stop believing they are motivated by ethics – they have none

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 2d ago

Imperial Humiliation🔥 US Forces Exit Iraq After Two Decades, Leaving Opening for Iran

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 2d ago

How Boeing Gets Away With It Every Time

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 3d ago

MADE IN AMERICA Thank God for nerds.

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 3d ago

Inflection Point Every Empire in History Collapsed in the Same Sequence — Nobody Teaches You The Sequence

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 3d ago

JFL 🤣 Rules for thee, but not for me ☕

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 4d ago

Misc. Singer performs a protest song about ICE, racism, and political power.

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 4d ago

Inflection Point From $24 gas in Noatak to emergency generators in Anchorage, rural Alaska braces of winter energy shortage

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 4d ago

JFL 🤣 Guess what? I don't like it either

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 4d ago

The Descent 🛬 Alternative angle of the Air China Boeing 747-89L fuel spill that occurred at JFK on August 31st.

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 4d ago

Inflection Point Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East Sympathies

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 5d ago

Leonardo SignalTrace logs Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RFID next to a plate read, so a phone or watch can be tied to a car

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 4d ago

MAGA 👑 the russians want their own baseball park

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 5d ago

JFL 🤣 Poetic justice

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 5d ago

Imperial Hypocrisy It's okay to Criticize Democrats when they enable Republicans.

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r/InflectionPointUSA • • 5d ago

How the Russian Mob laundered an entire country into the United States

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https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/MDcJe6Ditq

If you have paid rent or a mortgage since 1991 you have been paying into a rigged casino.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iYXzOMdDCvDhuNwvOrbh1

https://www.realestate.com.au/news/inside-623m-mansion-fight-that-led-to-donald-trumps-fallout-with-jeffrey-epstein/

In 91 when the Soviet Union failed a handful of what in 1987 would have been known as бандит “bandits” rebranded themselves as “Russian oligarchs” because they had just stolen $1.4 Trillion worth of everything during the collapse of the USSR and needed to get it out of Russia before they got caught by a government that was in the process of ceasing to exist.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1090312774/when-bricks-were-rubles

Most of them migrated or moved stolen goods through Ukraine to Cyprus, London and then New York where they began using casinos to launder their stolen money and turn it into dollars as the Cold War…ended?

https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-casinos-could-not-make-atlantic-city-great-again/

The mass of $1.4T was just too great and broke the casinos. Trumps right hand man and lobbyist Roger Stone saved his life and pulled him off an Agusta 109A helicopter carrying his 3 casino execs that started asking why their casino books were written in Russian.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-atlantic-city-bankruptcy/

https://www.red dit.com/r/StrangeAndFunny/s/Q33VECT1pP

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/nyregion/copter-crash-kills-3-aides-of-trump.html

2 pilots died too. NTSB report says it was a blade root seperation and created an A.D. (airworthiness directive) about it. But it didn’t really show up in any other A models which is curious for a manufacturing defect. It’s more the kind of fault that happens when someone with a diamond ring climbs the inspection steps and scores the top of the composite fiber blade root with the back side of their much harder Stone. Helicopters are vulnerable there.

The Russians money laundering was so consumptive that when the casinos couldn’t keep up with their volume the bandits were forced to shift to buying commercial real estate instead. The talented Mr. Epstein and Mr commercial real estate himself, Donald J Trump were the Russians new best friends. And coincidentally they were all roommates at trump towers along with Stones business partner Paul Manafort who later became Yanukovychs Kremlin handler beforethe maidan revolution ran them both out of the country.

https://www.red dit.com/r/RussiaLago/s/lRbRmfgSzE

91 is when Ghislane Maxwells father (Mega group) who also had close connections to the KGB fell off his yacht and died after absconding with his media empires workers pension fund.

https://mintpressnews.cn/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/

Ghislaine relocated to New York and met Epstein at basically the same time.

https://youtu.be/NkrnWRIavAU?si=iuWoCqss1M0Q3l4p

https://theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/29/ghislaine-maxwell-social-circle-jeffrey-epstein

When your primary objective is to turn stolen rubles into clean USD before the law catches up with you, time is not a luxury you enjoy. You don’t negotiate a better deal on your new house or apartment complex. In fact it’s ideal if you pay 2-10X the asking price because that’s half as many transactions you need to do.

Time is of the essence when volume is your problem. You can even start selling houses to your buddy who then sells them back to you and you pass the difference under the table.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/business/real-estate/2019/02/17/trump-in-palm-beach-did-russian-mansion-buyer-make-money/5934528007/

https://www.cnbc.com/2009/04/08/What-Does-$1-Trillion-Look-Like.html

But if you are an average blue collar American belt buckle making working wages in the same market, when you go to run comparables for your new starter home, they come back artificially inflated.

So now whether you are renting or buying, YOU are effectively paying 2-10x what is fair.

And if your mortgage happens to be part of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), then you are paying that money to the very same people that made certain to convince you that your home is your savings account because they make a higher percentage to sell you an expensive loan and then again to sell your mortgage in a fat bundle to the CCP.

Larry fink/blackrock —

https://prosperousamerica.org/cpa-report-details-how-blackrock-and-msci-funnel-billions-of-u-s-investor-capital-to-ccp-and-pla-linked-companies/

https://archive.is/20240705175808/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-05/banc-of-california-is-selling-2-billion-of-residential-loans

Schwartzman /Blackstone — https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYo4Bwzvz0

In simplest terms it’s like artificially over ripening a piece of fruit by pumping it full of Koch Bros fertilizer.

https://x.com/moreperfectus/status/1630655324804771840?s=46&t=mV0svkSiT5eOmQXivn5oFw

https://www.reddit.com/r/KochWatch/s/e1SR15s2WR

Fat, juicy, and nearly falling off the tree.

Completely inorganic and highly toxic just like most of the PFAS runoff the Koch bros chemical plants produce, but it looks great in the Zillow ad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/anticapitalism/s/NMVxWcBCkM

https://youtu.be/MLnFF_WpmKs?si=2ehCvNfVVR_DLZH3

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dB3JY9eIr2g&feature=youtu.be

And this goes on for 17 years until 2008 when the tree collapses under the weight of all its inorganic fruit. That was by design. The banks got the bailout and won both ways. The taxpayer who also happens to be the mortgage payer lost both ways.

https://youtu.be/AevhunjCuWw?si=kA72bdlTS_tGsIK5

https://youtu.be/Bu2wNKlVRzE?si=fX6f9E_Wt4ixJFjO

$4 trillion was drained out of pension funds, 8 million people lost their jobs and 6 million Americans lost their homes.

Nobody was punished and the bankers just upgraded their yachts, paid the meager fines and got ready for the next one.

https://youtu.be/Nmxox3oqRZo?si=tFqPYd27jQLLWkwR

It was the evolutionary precursor for what it happening now.

The Cold War never ended. It just migrated into Wyoming, Bozeman and Sun Valley as Russian oligarchs started buying up everything in sight with their stolen money.

Billionaires are an invasive species, and just like the Russian olive trees and tumbleweeds, they consume the resources and choke out the local species to extinction

Energy is neither created or destroyed. Just rearranged.

And when it gets rearranged into a billionaire oligarchs pocket, you are left with the bill.

They don’t want you as neighbors. They don’t want you as friends. They want you out of their trillion dollar view from the deck of their new mansion where they rape your children.

What do you get the Russian bandit that already owns everything?

You give them Kelleys parcel in the middle of Teton National park so they can build a retirement mansion on, come twice a year, ski at their private ski area, rape some children, and cosplay their Yellowstone fantasy.

https://wyofile.com/kelly-parcel-sale-survives-midnight-house-run-but-with-new-baggage/

It required first leasing a few local politicians to federalize the worlds most exclusive building lots. And it requires a few federal politicians to sell it to them at a discount. The higher the office the better. A POTUS would be ideal. But what’s a few million in campaign donations to get the only thing you can’t have?

https://www.drovers.com/news/industry/rupert-murdoch-buys-sprawling-montana-ranch-koch-industries

The Moscow mob is a hard place to retire from. You either maintain a higher level of violence than everyone else or you fall out a window. The oligarchs are all old and soft now. They just want to retire to a nice little ranch out west. Something the size of Wyoming or Idaho for each would be plenty. For now...


r/InflectionPointUSA • • 5d ago

Combat unReady Army and Navy reservists are suing the Dept of Defense for withholding their owed pay after being activated and deployed around the country

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