Collapse Is the Point: Trump as Known Russian Asset
- john raymond
- May 16
- 2 min read
The Moody’s downgrade of American debt is not just an economic event—it is a symptom. A warning flare sent into the black sky of a democracy under siege. The American system is crumbling, and the tragedy is not its inevitability, but its predictability. We are not watching a sudden collapse; we are watching the execution of a plan. A plan long in motion, deliberate in design, and devastating in consequence.
At the center of that plan is Donald Trump, a man whose every action must now be understood for what it is: the work of a Russian asset embedded at the very top of the American political structure. This is not hyperbole. This is not metaphor. It is fact—demonstrated through years of strategic alignment with Kremlin goals, from his assaults on NATO to his admiration for authoritarians, from his sabotage of Ukraine to his contempt for constitutional law.
Trump is pulling every pin from the structure of American power. Every institution that forms the backbone of U.S. legitimacy—courts, elections, federal agencies, civil rights, diplomatic alliances—is under sustained attack. He is not merely incompetent or erratic. He is waging a systematic campaign of dismantlement, weakening each bolt, loosening each joint, wrenching free the lynchpins of American leadership.
This is the fulfillment of his true allegiance. He does not serve the American people. He serves himself—and through himself, he serves Vladimir Putin.
Every betrayal, every delay in aid to Ukraine, every attack on NATO, every insult hurled at allies, every inch given to Russia, is not incidental. It is the strategy of a man who knows his power and survival are anchored not in American institutions but in the goodwill of the Kremlin. That is why he wages war not against America's enemies, but against its foundations.
And as the West teeters, so rises the Axis of Autocrats—Putin, Xi, Orban, and others who seek a new world order where truth is disposable, power is robbed, and cruelty is governance. Trump wishes to count himself among them. He envies their grip on power, their immunity to law, their ability to rule without consent. His fascist impulses are not hidden—they are projected, shouted, idolized. He speaks in strongman slogans. He rules through spectacle and fear. And still, the institutions hesitate to name it.
But we must. The slow erosion has reached a breaking point. Moody’s tells us what many have long known: that faith in the American system is deteriorating, that political instability is no longer a warning but a condition. The markets react not to speeches but to structure. And the structure is being hollowed from within.
This is not the story of a mismanaged country. It is the story of an infiltrated one. A superpower turned against itself, its leadership corrupted, its compass shattered, its people distracted by noise while the floor caves in beneath them.
The collapse is the point. And unless we see it—truly see it—we will continue to treat the symptoms while the felonious cause walks free.
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