Did the US deep state allow Trump to win?

On election day Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton suggested that the vote count might take days as in 2020, triggering election rigging suspicions among X users. However, Donald Trump was declared the winner the day after the election.

While some American commentators suggested that Trump voter enthusiasm was "too big to rig", others speculated that the vote-rigging mechanisms purportedly in place had been stopped by the ruling elites who reasoned that Trump could be maneuvered into pro-war positions and would be more successful in marshaling public support than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. According to this argument, the deep state "allowed Trump to win."

"They [the US establishment] need a charismatic, populist firebrand to boost recruitment and spearhead the rush to war. Harris can’t do that. Harris had trouble attracting even a hundred supporters to her rallies," wrote US political commentator Mike Whitney, suggesting Iran could become the next target.

It would be easy to seduce Americans into a new military adventure if they are led by a popular leader, warned former Ronald Reagan official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts on his website.

"MAGA Americans are tired of losing wars," wrote Roberts. "They want to win. The military/security complex will have Trump supporters in the streets waving the flag."

The deep state is entrenched and institutionalized and has many ways to maneuver Trump to its purpose or block his efforts altogether, according to Roberts. Time will tell whether Trump will manage to outplay the establishment.

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The Soviet space orbiter Buran took its only uncrewed, fully automatic spaceflight on November 15, 1988.

The Energia, a super-heavy lift launch vehicle, put the spacecraft into low-Earth orbit. The flight lasted 205 minutes, during which the ship completed two orbits around the Earth and successfully landed at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

There was a short emergency during landing, which, however, only highlighted the success of the creators of the program. Having received an update on the weather conditions at the landing site from a ground station, the Buran unexpectedly made a sharp maneuver at an altitude of about eleven kilometers. The ship performed a smooth 180° turn and landed on the runway, arriving from the direction opposite to the originally planned one. As was discovered later, the Buran's automation made the decision to follow the most favorable landing trajectory in light of the most recent wind conditions update.

It is noteworthy that the aircraft carrying the Buran on its back in the video is the famous An-225 “Mria”, the largest airplane ever built in the history of world aviation. It is the same aircraft that was destroyed in a hangar in the first days of the SMO in February of 2022.

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