How is it not on the nose? Social Engineering against something is still social engineering. It doesn't matter if you can spin it positively or negatively
Absolutely still objectionable, but there isn't literally an expenditure just for Large Scale Social Deception. They're justifying it as a defense against Deception. It was funny when I thought LSD was its own item but reality isn't quite that based.
the last stupid game I played that was made in Russia was a King’s Bounty rehash that was worse than the Sega original and basically a flip of stolen Warcraft assets
Russians are overrepresented in the modding scene for a lot of (American) 90s PC games. Not that that disproves your point about their lack of soft power...
I don't know exactly which presidents Trump has taken inspiration from, but I hope Roosevelt was one of them. When it comes to his immigration and foreign policy I'm reminded a great deal of what I had read of him. If you're going to be here, you put us first and make us the best on the planet.
WWI destroyed Roosevelt, personally and symbolically. TR loved war. He thought it would forge the new American race (minus blacks, he considered them unassimilable). If you read his memoir of his experience in the Spanish-American War, he resigns a high ranking administration job to go personally, he sees people shot right in front of him by snipers hiding in trees, he has to watch his men languishing with fever long after the fighting is over (I think the majority of Rough Rider casualties), and worst of all, no one even gets to ride their horses because the war takes place in a fucking jungle on an island (Teddy brings his anyway). But it sure sounds like he loves every minute, he sounds like a genuine psychopath, in a good way (maybe).
But then he loses his son in WWI, and by all accounts from that point on he's a shell of his former self. But it's very clear that whatever his personal stakes, war isn't fun anymore. WWI is grinding trench warfare, it's shell shock, it's getting gassed by novel chemical weapons. I think it's maybe the lunatic end point of Napoleon's innovations, but if Napoleon was the beginning of the end for glorious war, WWI puts it entirely to rest. This is symbolic of many ways in which modern society could not accommodate a Teddy Roosevelt, he simply would not fit into our times. It's unbearably sad and completely inevitable.
Anyway, no Trump is not modeling himself on TR, at least not in any way you should credit. TR got an asthma diagnosis and spent the rest of his life proving that it could literally not stop him from doing a single thing, and bullied his way into danger. No one should be chastised for not living up to that, but I'm not going to hear anyone compared to him if they avoided the military, unless it was because their country was at peace so they signed up as a mercenary in Africa instead.
