My problem with the master-planners is that they are prone bury provable, shocking facts that we should all know about amongst the manure of UFO sightings and lizards.
The way I see it is there is no master plan but there are people whose super power is that they are permanently poised to plunder the public purse when things like Covid happen. From that point on clarity is their enemy. The more opaque and confusing things are the longer they can keep plundering. They don’t hate you and me, it is just that they absolutely do not give the slightest #### about us.
I am a serious believer in the same being the case but amplified a thousand fold in the US. There are some seriously impressive politicians in the US but at the very top, regardless of the party, it is all about protecting the elite. Invent a threat. Panic or bully the government (tax payers) into funding it. Use that money to dish out contracts to the usual suspects and mates' companies, take a back-hander, a donation, and lo and behold everyone is happy - even the public are happy, because the government is keeping them safe.
Oh I am off on one here . Bail out!
I am of the political persuasion that suggests I should be voting Joe Biden and sorting him out later if I don't like it. But I can't. If I was forced (emphasise forced) to choose between Biden and Trump I would vote Trump because:
* Trump is a more transparent liar. He knows we know he is lying. Biden thinks he hides it.
* Trump had some good policies. Some so good that no other politician of any persuasion would have proposed them. Biden's policies are less impactful, and some debatably as harmful as some of Trumps lesser ideas if you consider that doing nothing (Biden) can sometimes be worse than doing something crap (Trump). Some of Biden's policis are blatantly about nothing more than gaining votes at the next full or mid-term election. Whereas Trump would know you know he knew you knew what it was all about if he did that kind of thing, Biden looks like he thinks you think he is doing things because he is a good guy.
* Neither Trump nor Biden are meant to store top secret documents. Both have done, and that is the crime in nutshell. The fact that Biden said 'have them back' as against Trump's 'what documents?' shows one is a bigger nob than the other, but the crime is the same. So I think it is unfair that Biden is not in the dock too. Get rid of the pair of them.
* Ukraine. I don't trust Putin. (Point of note that he keeps a lid on a country with 190 ethnicities and ought to be handled with care not wishtanding the invasion of Ukraine.) Zelenskyy - something is not right about him. Meetings with BlackRock etc about divvying the future of Ukraine. I do not know what Trump would have done but Biden loves it, blocking attempts at a truce while pumping money from taxpayer to the usual suspects. But it is not only the US taxpayer who foots the bill, we in Europe are paying a big price for a proxy US v Russia war through higher bills. No matter who (if anyone) wins we in Europe is guaranteed to lose out.
I am sure you get the idea and can write the rest yourself if you got this far.