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ESSAY / Why are these overlooked leaders so hairy – like China, Russia, and America under Trump?




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

It was Ludvig Holberg who first used the word "usurpator" – (Epistle III) – in a Danish / Norwegian context, and just taking a look at the nature of the world is enough to emphasize the amount of them; the three largest are the American businessman and narcissist Trump, then the Russian intelligence officer and international law lawyer Putin, then the Chinese dictator, engineer and lawyer Xi.

Two lawyers and a poser of a businessman, but these divide the world between themselves, and what kind of games are they performing to hold their positions as leaders of their three great countries; it is a primitive form of state politics, and the status quo is more power, larger land areas, like this primitive form of state politics is about geography and topology.

As it is, and about quantities of weapons, of the formats of their various war machines – to paraphrase Deleuze and Guattari and their labyrinthine book A thousand plateaus – as if it's the size of the calibers and all the money behind that counts; not to forget all the ardent weapons engineers, the weapons producing factories; it is always the technological know-how that counts, never the humane wisdom that plays in and disarms these overgrown war machine inventors and their complainants, whether for monetary reasons (Trump) or for Slavic patriotic reasons (Putin) or for Chinese Asian new capitalist reasons (Xi), which really boils down to the same thing: to retain power, and that is the status quo.

To become frozen

The different strategies are simple and simple with the three leaders; none can withstand criticism from their satellite states, or other states; this is a game the three can; in the American phrase, of course, the statement "You get fired" counts, with the other two it is worse, there it is over and out; it is not just fired, it is more to be frozen and never again taken into the heat; it is almost as if they are reacting as Catholics, where grace is suspended, and where the mother church turns away in shame; In Putin's world and in Xi's world there is no mercy, there is unkindness, and the one who falls outside is done, not just kicked, but forgotten and gone for good – this would have been Trump's love, but the American system is stopping him. But nobody stops Putin or Xi.

Russia and China are in the pockets of these two usurpers, but the US is somewhere else, though Trump might have liked the US to be like Russia or China, not to forget North Korea, that's the good thing about America , that Trump cannot act as sole ruler; he would surely have loved to be there and told Creti and Pleti that they would be fired, and worse, if they did not come along and he spoke by mouth, as they do in China, Russia and North Korea, but the US Constitution is completely unanimous, and quite unlike Putin's Russia and Xi's China.

USA, Russia, China

What will happen in America when the youthful opposition realizes, as they probably have already done, that many of the major signal buildings in the United States are built by slaves, or their descendants; the illegal Mexican immigrants, for Trump's tower would not have been built without the Mexican illegal immigrants, which he will now block out, but how is the US going to survive without the Mexican immigrants – all of America is made up of slaves and illegal Mexican immigrants.

It is always the technological know-how that counts the human wisdom that captures and disarms these overgrown war machine inventors.

From Putin's Russia there are rumors that the commander of the Red Army lives on cabbage and has almost no income, as the natural household has taken over for regular salaries, as if the Russian state is broke, and what about the Chinese, which seems surprisingly rich, and trying to get hold of unusual minerals from around the world – China, which was always reserved vis-à-vis the rest of the world, is suddenly everywhere; but there is unrest in the country, and it is said that there are several labor disputes there.

None of these leaders can withstand criticism, why is China so hairy, like Russia is and like America is under Trump; why are all these three heads of state so hairy; Putin hates it so much that he gets, it seems, the criticism to disappear, and the Chinese introduce trade blockade, as it was for a short period against Norway because of the support of the Dalai Lama and the awarding of the peace prize to a Chinese opposition. And the same with the US president, all those who would not stop trading with Iran, were punished. Why are all these war machines so hairy, since they can shoot and kill everything; after all, all three of them love spit-lighters and can't stand criticism – even as powerful as they are, their common Achilles heel is the criticism.

It seems simply childish, and what should have been a touch of something deeper becomes simple again, when one thinks of the complexity of the world and what these three inept leaders are trying to do with us and the rest of the world and it strikes me; why do we find ourselves in it – as the EU's crass claim against Greece was also cynical and simple, it is not such a sophisticated state policy. It's as if nothing has happened since the Vienna Congress danced after Napoleon's fall; To put it mildly, it is not the world that opens, this is the world that closes. As usual, Shakespeare is right; the world has gone off the hook.

The usurpators of the law

In the strange and curious book A thousand plateaus (Deleuze and Guattari, 1980) state that the "war machine" evolves in the "striped" (grooved, grooved) room, and that this "striped" room has been instituted by the state apparatus; there is also a smooth room, and it is the sea, and since everything flows in this book, it is probably part of the "smooth" room – the "smooth" room also belongs to the nomads, the non-residents.

On the whole there is a lot floating here, but what is fixed, I think, is everything in the "striped" room, and it is guarded by the three-headed troll – it is the guardian of the law, into which no one but is where we are. We who want something else are still living in the "striped" room, and we won't get out.

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