• psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Russian agents are not supporting the Republican party. Stop pretending there is some conspiracy to make America like this. They did it themselves. Trump is like the most American American to ever American.

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      Published as a strategy suggestion in 1997 and is literally a textbook for their military academy. Notice how it says “for instance, provoke Afro-American racists”. The playbook is to find existing pain points and dig in deep. Obviously it would be much more difficult to create such a movement from scratch. Much easier to inject ragebait into the lives of people already prone to being hateful.

      Other great bits:

      The United Kingdom, merely described as an “extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.”, should be cut off from the European Union.

      Wonder if that could ever happen, eh?

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        We know the Russians were involved in that. MI6 confirmed it and then the government of the time covered it up.

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      Trump is owned by Russian mobsters with whom he’s been laundering money since the 80s, and Putin who almost certainly has compromising videos of the president with underaged children (and I’m guessing at least one snuff video because Trump is a sick fuck who Jeffrey Epstein described as the worst person he’s ever known). It’s patently evident they conspire together—Trump himself admits he talks to Putin every week. “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”

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        Trump literally cannot be blackmailed. Any compromising evidence would be dismissed by him as AI or fake news and his followers would believe it without question. And in recent years, it’s been shown that Trump is basically above US law.

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          And yet he is inexplicably relaxing sanctions on Russia while they are invading our ally, Ukraine (whom we signed a pact with to protect them from Russia when they denuclearized). Russia also supports Iran. So we’re harming our ally to benefit our enemy, who also supports our other enemy who we are also at war with.

          So if he can’t be blackmailed, then he’s just doing it for money/love of treason.

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          I remember when MAGA claimed Trump couldn’t be bribed because he was already rich. Trump checks pretty much the boxes for someone who can be both bribed and blackmailed: he’s greedy, proud, insecure, has a criminal history he wants to keep secret including rape and money laundering, is a pedophile, has no sense of loyalty, and there’s a good chance he was (maybe still is) in debt to the the Russian mob.

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      It’s already been proven that Russians interfered in the 2024 election through disinformation campaigns aimed at discrediting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris / boosting Trumps candidacy. I don’t even know how people like you are convinced otherwise at this point.

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      He’s so American that he will let the USA go into a civil war and give up global dominance through sheer incompetence. By his very Americannes he make the Russian agents wettest dreams come true.

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      Even if Russia did meddle, it is/would be because it’s incredibly easy to fuck with US politics.

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      Let’s clarify - there is no evidence that Russan agents had any signficant impact on US elections, nor Brexit. There is evdence that tuey have tried.