Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Keep it up, Ted.
That silhouette is going to be you.
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The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
Phillips P. OBrien
Nov 22, 2025
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-long-con-comes-to-an-end
Yesterday, Friday 21 November, ended up being one kind of day but it was supposed to be another. 21 November, in case you had forgotten, was supposed to be the day that the Trump Administration levelled crippling secondary sanctions on Chinese, Indian and Turkish companies that buy Russian oil. Indeed, the Treasury Department even hinted earlier this week that those secondary were ready to go. It capped off six weeks of a frenzy of reporting about how Trump was going to really hit Putin hard. Piles of articles (many of which had a fundamentally flawed understanding of the oil markets) were written about how Trump’s sanctions were real this time. Even The Bulwark, fell for this con, and we saw a hopelessly naive article by Cathy Young about how Trump really was going to hurt Putin this time.
Well, yesterday came and went and, drumroll please….no secondary sanctions have been announced. Now, Chinese, Indian and Turkish oil companies can get back to business buying as much Russian oil as they want/can. Soon Russia will be making more than they were.
btw, the Chinese probably never stopped buying Russian oil, but that is a piece for another day.
Instead, what actually happened on November 21 was that the Trump Administration came for Ukraine—as they always intended to do. The Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, a very close associate of VP JD Vance, went to Kyiv and tried to bully the Ukrainians into accepting Trump’s 28 Point Plan to neuter Ukraine. Driscoll formally presented the plan to divide Ukraine now, and end it later, and the reality of what Ukraine and Europe was facing finally sunk in. Here was how the Atlantic story on the meeting began.
Quote:The most depressing thing from the above story was that the diplomat was surprised at what the administration was doing; or I should say that the unnamed diplomat had fallen for the Trump Administration’s long con. The long con was that they would ever do anything meaningful to hurt Putin and help Ukraine, that somehow they were honest brokers in this war. They never were. They have always wanted Putin to get the best deal possible and they have always wanted to severely weaken Ukraine. Whatever steps the administration took to seem to help Ukraine were performative; steps that were designed to make it look like they would be tough on Putin, but in the end never were more mirage-like than anything else.
Dan Driscoll kept everyone waiting. The United States secretary of the Army had been due to arrive earlier today at the U.S. ambassadors residence in Kyiv to speak with diplomats from NATO member states. The guests were eager to hear about the 28-point peace plan Driscoll had delivered on behalf of the Trump administration to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But what they heard when Driscoll finally got there left some of the Europeans infuriated. “I feel nauseous,” one diplomat told us afterward. “It’s like the world is shattering around us, and we are watching it in real time.”
Such were the oil sanctions. They caused endless speculation about how much Russia was going to suffer, how tough Trump was going to be etc. However, if there are no secondary sanctions (and right now they look rather unlikely) than in the end they are irrelevant and if anything provided a short term burst of revenue to Russia in late October.
Something similar happened with weapons sales. Yes, after waiting almost half a year, and ending US arms aid to Ukraine, the Trump administration did a small maneuver and set up PURL (NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Replacement Lists). PURL sounded great, if a rip off for Europe, as it allowed European states to purchase at full cost US weapons which could then go to Ukraine or could replace existing weapons which would go to Ukraine.
And what happened with PURL? Well, much like with sanctions, it was launched to great fanfare but
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Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Zelensky.
Nobody cares.
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Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Zelensky.
Nobody cares.
Point to the dipshit nobody cares about Gilligan. Correct...
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You're going to be ended if you stay in my country.
You'd better start running.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You're going to be ended if you stay in my country.
You'd better start running.
Your entire world is here and in your back yard. let me guess, your internet security is free? You don't even make enough money to pay for a haircut. My bet is you do it yourself. Or daddy is still doing it for you.
That said, who am I? And how are you planning to end me? God your stupid. Point to stupid Jack. Again, correct,
Hey, your buddy signym has run for the hills. Too funny...
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I don't have internet "security".
If you have a VPN and think it's protecting you from anything, you're an idiot. The only thing that VPN ever saved you from was me knowing where you live.
The only service VPN actually provides customers is bypassing countrywide copyright issues that prevent you from watching shows that are only available on streaming services in other countries.
Pay for it while you can. There's already talks of banning VPNs.
Oh, and yes. That's a good bet. First time you've been right about anything in 2025. I do cut my own hair, when I'm not just letting it grow out.
I don't pay anybody to do anything that I can do for myself, which is most things.
You wouldn't understand that since you can't even wipe your own rotten asshole.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't have internet "security".
If you have a VPN and think it's protecting you from anything, you're an idiot. The only thing that VPN ever saved you from was me knowing where you live.
The only service VPN actually provides customers is bypassing countrywide copyright issues that prevent you from watching shows that are only available on streaming services in other countries.
Pay for it while you can. There's already talks of banning VPNs.
Oh, and yes. That's a good bet. First time you've been right about anything in 2025. I do cut my own hair, when I'm not just letting it grow out.
I don't pay anybody to do anything that I can do for myself, which is most things.
You wouldn't understand that since you can't even wipe your own rotten asshole.
A VPN is not internet security. It provides some security, but it is not a security program. Don't you know anything?
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