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 Hmm, you do have good insights.  Some of these statements I agree with, others are pushing it.

The first paragraph on trump I accept your arguments.  I'm just not pushing that as "the sole truth", as the arguments against it are logical as well.  Trump certainly picked deep state people in his cabinet/staff.

As far as the deliberate decline of the US empire, I disagree with.  In fact, I think most war/coups in the Middle East, South America, and even other places has been over the forced sale of oil in US dollars.  And actually Wikileaks has been some of the sources we've backed these claims up with. (such as Libya)

But even without Wikileaks, Iraq's timing and Venezuela coups are great examples of "sell oil in USD or die"

I agree with you that they want one world government, but I think the path towards that is dominance of the petrodollar empire & IMF/World Bank.