Is the modern right preparing for the end times?

I did think about Trump's possible motives in his first attempt to rule the world.

When he made a State Visit (self-invited or normal protocol?) to Britain in 2016 he waffled on about the USA taking over Greenland and the NHS; thus upsetting the Danes, Greenlanders and his hosts at around the same time.

Until then I suppose most of we Britons knew of him only as a shortbread-tin Scottish, but fully American national, property-speculator who somehow obtained planning-permission to destroy a Site of Special Scientific Interest (so protected by law) in Scotland, merely to build a golf-course.

We knew from his campaigning he'd been loudly dismissing climate-change, a matter too scientific for him, as a hoax or even a lie. That was superficially to please his country's own coal, oil and automotive industries and the Republican voters among their employees.

What I do not recall, were many people at the time spotting the link. I had realised Greenland may well have useful minerals under its ice-covered ground... Caring about and for its inhabitants or their environment would not be relevant to Trump as long as the island, annexed or still foreign territory, can be plundered for those resources by American mining companies.

We also realised that Trump has the diplomatic skills of a wildebeeste, and not much better education; but I thought a little deeper:

"For all his apparent dim-ness, insensitivity and naivety, this man is sly and driven by money. So what, " I wondered, "is he up to?"

A little study of an atlas and some knowledge of basic geology made it all glaringly obvious.

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Regarding the obsessions of Musk and the others, it's hard to treat them with any credibility.

Musk - who also dreams or fathering unfeasible numbers of children he thinks will all be super-intelligent 'cos he imagines he is - did qualify in IT but all his space-exploration ideas were inspired more by space-fiction than understanding its reality. Though I suppose, as with the Tesla car firm, his role is just that of speculator who doesn't need know which end of a spanner is which, or a Watt from a Joule.

The rest of this type might have their oligarchical ldreams but how realistic they are is anyone's guess, and their careers probably hang very much on what Donald Trump does, or does not do.

I wonder if they will end like the Russian oligarchs who helped and were supported in turn by Vladimir Putin, until he had no further use for them so now likely worry how near they are to poisoned scent-bottles... I don't go as far as saying their (the American ones') lives are in danger but their livelihoods may well be as fragile as their egoes, if Trump has no further use for them.