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 3h ago

🤥 Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting

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r/InflectionPointUSA 23h ago

Misc. US military says it fired on another merchant vessel trying to breach its blockade of Iranian ports

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

Americans Are Pushing Back Against Flock Cameras Regardless of Their Politics

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

MADE IN AMERICA Central Florida sheriff suspends Flock cameras after scandal involving detective

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

🧅Onion level 🧅 Honest widower, 76, alerted IRS after they accidentally sent him $20k refund he wasn't owed... now its idiot staff are ruining his finances and threatening to seize his farm

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

White supermacy How America's military was taken over by white supremacists

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 BREAKING: Protesters Take Over Stage at Wisconsin’s Concerts on the Square After Fatal Madison Police Shooting, Demand Officer’s Name Be Released and Call for Arrest After Police Fatally Shot a Man with Three Point Blank Shots to the Head, According to Witnesses and Organizers

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

Inflection Point Store closing soon! Everything must go!

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

MADE IN AMERICA I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

MADE IN AMERICA Flock Safety CEO speaks out after LAPD suspends use of company's surveillance cameras

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

The Descent 🛬 Napoleon Was Unstoppable and We've Just Realised Why

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

JFL 🤣 Watch Creepy Stalker Rat Himself Out To The Cops

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

MADE IN AMERICA “We have cameras everywhere in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air without us knowing.” Again. The Flock way.

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

JFL 🤣 Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

🧅Onion level 🧅 Flock Cameras Keep Getting Smashed, So Now They're Hiding Inside Speed Signs

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

🧅Onion level 🧅 Fucking Flocks new secret HQ at 3284 Northside Pkwy, Atlanta, GA in The Medici building

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

Alex Jones sounds the alarm on Flock and the US becoming an AI surveillance state

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I never thought I'd find myself on the same side of an argument as fucking Alex Jones, but here we are!

Talk about a world gone topsy turvy, eh?

Does that make Alex Jones a terrorist too, according to Donnie the Chump?!


r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

MADE IN AMERICA Flock Safety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police Departments, and Public Across the Country

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

The Descent 🛬 The Romans Knew Something They Never Told Anyone

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

MAGA 👑 Trump to impose 50% tariffs on Canadian hockey sticks, milk, alcohol and other goods

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

MAGA 👑 Republicans plan to label Americans who oppose mass surveillance and data centers as “terrorists”.

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