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 2h ago

Possessed by 👹 Ex-HUD official claims trillions spent on underground bunkers

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4h ago

Imperial Hypocrisy United States of America🇺🇸 is a 'Democracy' and not an 'Authoritarian Dictatorship' like China🇨🇳

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

MADE IN AMERICA Susan Sarandon said she’s still had movies taken away recently over her outspoken support of Palestine

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r/InflectionPointUSA 18h ago

Inflection Point; Sooner AND Worse Than Expected Melting glaciers an 'immediate' climate risk: author of UN report

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

The Descent 🛬 Video from the front of Miami/Amazon B-767

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 To name a place in the US where there hasn't been a mass shooting

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

The Descent 🛬 Pictures of the crash in Miami of the Amazon cargo jet

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

Incompetence Don't Share This.... LOL

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

MADE IN AMERICA Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss (D) was allegedly on audio saying his campaign "only exists" to put Israel first. WaPo confirms the audio is not AI or manipulated as Moss claims.

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

The Descent 🛬 The moment Prime Air Boeing 767 overshots the runway at Miami International Airport - September 6, 2026

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

ICE Learning From the "Best"

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The thing about this cartoon is how close to reality it really is; American law enforcement have been receiving training from Israelis for decades now. I think that training has contributed to countless cases of police brutality and murders of citizens by police officers.


r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

Imperial Humiliation🔥 Why the U.S. Military Just Activated the Training Ship Empire State VII to Sail to Doego Garcia

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

Call for a general strike if elections are manipulated

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

JFL 🤣 An American hero

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

To uphold the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

JFL 🤣 It was supposed to be comedy, not prophecy.

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

JFL 🤣 A Guy Just Rolled up to the Sheriff with a Pickup stacked like a scrapyard of Flock Cameras and an American Flag Hanging off the Back.

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

MADE IN AMERICA US House passes bill penalizing universities that participate in boycott of Israel

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

Combat unReady Major newspaper in Israel casually floats enlisting young Americans for a ground invasion of Iran by leveraging freedom from their high amount of debt

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

MADE IN AMERICA To consider a loyal replacement for the head of the U.S. Army..

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

Possessed by 👹 CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 Georgia cops "feared for their life" and shot a baby donkey at an animal sanctuary

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

Widow of airman killed in Epic Fury denied death benefits as Iran conflict ‘is not a war’

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Astonishingly short-sighted.

No one should go to war for these MotherFuckers ever again.

Seriously; refuse to sail the ships, fly the planes or drive the MRAPs until whoever made that decision sees how badly they fucked up.