• Nanowith@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I can’t shake the feeling all of this is a Russian master plan.

    Not to be conspiritorial, but everything seems to be working out in their favour from Brexit to Trump II.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      It’s pretty obvious that it is. Trump is truly an idiot except when leading stupid people. All of the smart people on his team are in bed with Russia.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      It’s been a very long game they’re playing since Khrushchev, the objective being is to destroy Western powers from the inside.

      So when they can’t use overt means like supporting “national liberation movements”, they just use agents of influence on the inside, find weak spots, and start creating the rot in the system. Eventually the Soviets are replaced with mobster plutocrats, and this time they want to break the West so that once the US becomes an empty hole in the ground they can easily move their money around without penalty.

    • redditmademedoit@piefed.zip
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      2 months ago

      Consider that Russia has been failing to take over a neighboring country for several years now, for incomprehensible reasons, displaying immense incompetence on every level along the way. It is inherently very unlikely that Russia simultaneously has masterminded the entire fabric of the US and effectively taken over the country through sheer genius.

      No doubt that Trump is playing right into Putin’s hands, but Putin is also an idiot: not omnipotent.

      I think it’s more worth considering that the MAGA doomsday cult has a lot of interests that align with Russia, e.g. shifting U.S focus to the Western Hemisphere for resource dominance, as suggested by Aslı Bâli in the latest episode of The Dig (https://thedigradio.com/podcast/maga-empire-w-asli-bali-and-greg-grandin/).

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    2 months ago

    I mean Russia has always felt threatened by NATO since it’s inception, obviously they find anything good which might destroy NATO because they can’t destroy it themselves.

    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      What’re the chances that Russia is the one pushing Trump into this?

      After all, if Krasnov controls Greenland and he is under Putin’s thumb . . .

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        2 months ago

        An alignment of multiple interests, I think.

        Russia wants to see a weaker NATO, US, and EU. Trump’s pedophile technofascist backers want Greenland as a completely unregulated, fresh space for their fascist agenda. Trump pleases all of his handlers by squeezing the EU for Greenland.

        I doubt Trump himself cares even a little bit about Greenland. The fucker just wants to loaf around playing golf while eating burgers served on golden platters by people who fawn over him.

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          2 months ago

          On that last point, the characterization may no longer be true.

          I think he’s evolved into his ultimate evil. The fucker knows he’s old and gonna move on soon. He wants to leave as massive a historical stain as he can before he kicks the bucket.

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        2 months ago

        I just assumed this was the situation as soon as Dementia Don started talking about Greenland. I’d bet dollars to donuts he didn’t know where Greenland was before Putin put the idea into his addled little brain.

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        2 months ago

        What’re the chances that Russia is the one pushing Trump into this?

        100%. Guaranteed.

    • jankforlife@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, its just a tool for colonialism, no reason at all another country would be threatened by it

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    2 months ago

    Vlad should keynote a marketing conference, because he’s still reaping the rewards from that 2015 Facebook campaign. Homie’s breaking up NATO and western democracies by bidding on shitty social media ads.

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      2 months ago

      Homie’s breaking up NATO and western democracies imperialism

      Based homie

  • jankforlife@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    itt liberal russiophobia and scare mongering everywhere

    Oh, its the BBC ofc