 Interestingly, I would trust the Puppetmaster far more than I do most current American leaders, simply because he is obviously capable of considering the long view. And in the long view, you don't consider even peons expendable or worthless; you don't eat the seed corn if you want to continue to have a harvest.  In elementary school, I had a friend of Italian extraction whose last name was DeGaetano. Just one of those odd coincidences... 