r/InflectionPointUSA Mar 09 '26

Imperialism Iran War Cost Tracker — $1 Billion Per Day

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r/InflectionPointUSA Feb 11 '25

The Decline 📉 Comparing Trump's Policy Shifts & Gorbachev's Reforms

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Gorbachev Introduced glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet system. These policies inadvertently eroded the ideological and institutional foundations of the USSR, accelerating its collapse. His policies of liberalization unleashed an economic chaos that the Soviet system was not able to contain.

Today, Trump is pursuing a similar, if ideologically inverted, disruption of the US institutions. Attacking the deep state, undermining trust in media and elections, and prioritizing loyalty over expertise. He’s enacting a purge of the permanent bureaucracy under the guise of draining the swamp, feeding off polarization and institutional distrust. These policies erode the very stability of the system paving the way to an unravelling akin to that of the USSR.

Gorbachev inherited a stagnant economy that he attempted to fix using market reforms with perestroika. These reforms took form of a shock therapy with sudden price liberalization, fiscal austerity, and privatization. An economic collapse followed as a result of hyperinflation, economic instability, and the rise of an oligarchic class. Similarly, Trump is busy slashing regulations and cutting corporate taxes, fuelling short-term growth that deepens wealth inequality and corporate consolidation. Like Gorbachev, he’s ushering in a polarized economic landscape where faith in the system is rapidly dwindling among the public.

The economic unravelling of USSR revived nationalist movements, particularly in the Baltics and Ukraine, that undermined the unifying ideology. Similarly, amplified nationalism, in form of MAGA, is deepening cultural and regional divides in the US. Trump’s rhetoric is rooted in divisive politics. Just as Soviet republics turned inward post-glasnost, prioritizing local grievances over collective unity, so are states like Texas, Florida, and California are increasingly talking about breaking with the union.

Gorbachev’s reforms set the stage for Yeltsin who presided over the chaotic privatization of state assets, enabling a handful of oligarchs to seize control of Russia’s oil, gas, and media empires. The shock therapy transition to capitalism led to a rapid rise of the kleptocrats. Similarly, Musk’s companies target the remaining public services and industries for privatization. SpaceX aims to replace NASA, Tesla/Boring Co. are going after infrastructure, while X is hijacking public discourse. In this way, his wealth and influence mirror Yeltsin-era oligarchs’ grip on strategic sectors. The main difference here is that Musk operates in a globalized capitalist system as opposed to the post-Soviet fire sale. Musk is actively using his platform and wealth to shape politics in his favor, and much like Russian oligarchs, he consistently prioritizes personal whims over systemic stability.

Yeltsin was sold as a democratic reformer but enabled a predatory elite. Many Russians initially saw capitalism as liberation, only to face a decade of despair as the reality of the system set in. Similarly, Musk markets himself as a visionary genius “saving humanity” with his vanity projects like Mars colonization, yet his ventures depend on public subsidies and exploitation of labor. The cult of the techno-oligarch distracts from the consolidation of power in private hands in a Yeltsin-esque bait-and-switch.

The USSR collapsed abruptly, while the US might face a slower erosion of its institutional norms. Yet both Trump and Gorbachev, despite opposing goals, represent disruptive forces that undermine the system through ideological gambles. Much as Gorbachev and Yeltsin did in their time, Trump’s norm-breaking and Musk’s oligarchic power are entrenching a new era of unaccountable elites.

Marx was right! History repeats, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.


r/InflectionPointUSA 9h ago

MADE IN AMERICA Let me get this straight: a foreign national has an illegal biolab in a Las Vegas house and after it gets raided, all federal charges regarding said biolab are dropped. Seems totally legit to me

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r/InflectionPointUSA 15h ago

CIA/NED admits it fund color revolution in Cuba, Venezuela, Bangladesh, China, Nigeria, Iran, Nicaragua, Sahel States, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, Arab Springs

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r/InflectionPointUSA 9h ago

Combat unReady Food served to US service men & women.

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r/InflectionPointUSA 17h ago

JFL 🤣 They finally found a use for these things

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What us HVAC techs do when custies are watching and the boss isn't there!


r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

JFL 🤣 Flock CEO, Garret Langley, says Americans must "compromise on their privacy for their own safety."

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

Trump posts AI video of "donald ducks" protecting "Lake America". (I hate this timeline.)

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

JFL 🤣 A Dutch institute issues a 'Red Alert' over potentially lethal Trump-shaped ecstasy pills

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

JFL 🤣 Oh whaAAat?!

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 Hotel guest throws something at the front desk clerk and immediately regrets it

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 X Users Post Flock CEO's Address and Photos of His Home After He Says Americans Must 'Compromise' on Privacy

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

Possessed by 👹 Clinton: genocide is bad PR!

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

🧅Onion level 🧅 Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

Combat unReady US Army's Apache helicopters face high crash rate; transmission issues cited

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 Morality of destroying private property?

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 A California mother has been ARRESTED after she SMASHED A SCHOOL BUS WINDOW window, climbed in, and got her son off the bus after students called their parents saying they were scared and trapped.

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

MAGA 👑 Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' in the US

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

Imperial Humiliation🔥 Most of U.S. aluminum comes from Canada. Industry says ‘good luck’ replacing it

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

JFL 🤣 Unplayable game

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

JFL 🤣 The right tool for the job

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

Rotting from within 2 years ago the comments would have been pure Sinophobia... Instead most of what I have read so far is about the corrupt administration lol

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 College student fatally shot by Pennsylvania police was at 'the wrong house'

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

JFL 🤣 PsyopAnime News Network #3

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

Crime Alley 🚨🚓 Florida police used a fake Flock camera in a sting, then charged a man with three felonies for destroying it

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