• 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/).