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The predators will keep eating us until they crash the system whereupon the predators who run the system will start it up again and blame the collapse on the prey. That's how I remember 2008.

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At my age, I will never see it.

The principal beneficiary is not domestic...ithe BRIC nations want to overwhelm us. Devalue our currency. Steal our markets, assets, We are in this position becaause we were attacked by Russian psy ops. Trump is also backed by Saudi Arabian money.

More likely Trump will be a dictator on Day 1, like he says. Has a raft of executive orders ready to go. A huge probablity he will allege an emergency exists and try to become a dictator for life. https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-using-unitary-executive-theory-in-his-bid-to-amass-supreme-power/

He tried to do it re DACA, but at the time, SCOTUS stopped him. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/829858289/supreme-court-upholds-daca-in-blow-to-trump-administration Since then, he got an education and the makeup of SCOTUS has changed. He will try to make SCOTUS irrelevant.

If he has a prototype in mind, it's Putin, who may/may not be the richest man in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin%27s_rise_to_power#:~:text=On%2031%20December%201999%2C%20following,2012%2C%202018%2C%20and%202024.

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The richest man in the world is he who commands the largest economy. Wealth is not cash, wealth is not stocks and shares, wealth is what you command.

If you have people, transportation, residence, entertainment, food at your command you are wealthy.

Mao Tse Tung got a pocket allowance of $300 a month, but had at his disposal the entire resources, including humans of China.

I doubt that the MBS has a budget.

What is the wealth of Saudi Arabia, or the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, that is the wealth of their Sheiks, Emirs, Kings.

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interesting list. I don't know if I would rank Angela Merkel and the Pope as wealthy, powerful yes. The pope does have the entire resources of the Catholic Church at his command, but I don't see him throwing parties on a yacht,or having mansions around the world for his mistresses.

Although it is well know that some Popes not only had mistresses but bastards, like the Medici Popes.

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