Trump just cares about trump.
Surely you aren't naive enough to think he is the only politician in the West who cares only about themselves, if true?
You know Adam Smiths concept of self-interest and the invisible hand and how it can help everyone via the butcher, the brewer or the baker? Well to me it is in degrees along a continuum.
Thus, EVERY politician today benefits to some degree, but some require the corruption far more than others.
Trump is wealthy. He didn't join politics to gain wealth as career politicians have. That as a function alone is vastly superior a situation.
So all politicians in the West today have some self benefit. Some politicians more than others. On that same token some politicians also provide more benefits for their
constituents than other politicians. This much is clear and it is the calculus voters are left with.
Voters will have to decide, "of the imperfect options which option ensures the best future for my country and my family".
The British Intel have had it wrong so many times that I cannot count and it hurts me because I know there are a few Mavericks in mi5 and mi6 who know better but they are caught in the hierarchy and those in the hierarchy are bending to pressure of the majority rather than taking what is most accurate, even if not from ideal sources. So reflexively they dislike Trump, he is more "unknown" and "uncontrollable". This is code for "we don't have sources on him"
This Groupthink is not unique to the UK but the U.S are more open to debate. John O'Neil for instance, was a compulsive FBI agent as he was obsessed with Bin Laden and his terror groups BEFORE 9/11. His problem was he was undiplomatic and unprofessional, he was his own worst enemy. Too flashy and arrogant at times.
Now, some skilled superiors could have listened more to him through tact and a focus on facts rather than his faults. This is also where British Intel continues to fail, because they are even more institutionalized a system. No new invention was ever developed without debunking to some degree the old technology. This is the same with intelligence. Evolve or perish.
So, the long and short of it is that today Russias successes have been largely due to UKs poor intel. They loved Obama. They loved him so much that under his time Crimea and the Spratly islands were taken. This is because the Brits, MUCH weaker today than in 1980 for instance, is deathly afraid of conflict, while the U.S being much stronger has been given intel that I presume is not in their national interests. China thus rose, Putin consolidated power and influenced European politicians while everyone was patting themselves on the back.
Again, back to Adam Smith. Americas success is ALL of the Wests success. Some Western nations don't understand this, or perhaps even selfishly (and foolishly) don't want this success.
If you don't believe me, don't watch videos today from experts on the Russian War, listen to the predictions from
some of the highest placed and best informed from 2-3 years ago. Listen to how wrong that have been. You can extrapolate this even further back, 10-12 years.
Certainly the war in Iraq altered Putins thinking as well, this cannot be overstated. However, world leadership has been absent for a long time and these uncreative, Yes Men (and womens) deficiencies trickle down through intel agencies.
