robosmith Posted February 29, 2024 Report Posted February 29, 2024 (edited) Russia. It's always been Russia Quote Trump’s political career is inextricably linked to Putin and there are many theories as to why. The ‘why’ doesn’t really matter. It makes no difference if Putin has been blackmailing Trump with kompromat or if Trump sincerely believes that Russia deserves to dominate Europe. But all the same, there’s a simple, non-conspiratorial explanation. Russia has a long history of playing spygames and waging information warfare against other states. In Trump, they saw an American politician who was wholly transactional and they realized that this presented them with an opportunity: If they helped Trump in such a transparent and ostentatious way that it was basically public, then Trump would see Russia as being on his side, and so would treat them as allies. Probably it's Trump's history of illegal money laundering for Russian oligarchs that Putin knows ALL ABOUT. Edited March 1, 2024 by robosmith Quote
robosmith Posted March 1, 2024 Author Report Posted March 1, 2024 (edited) Na Zdorovye ("On Health") Quote America is not taking this Alexander Smirnov story seriously enough. In a rational world, the revelations about Smirnov should have upended the presidential race and become a crisis for congressional Republicans. Here are the three obvious points of scandal: ● Russia is trying to interfere in a presidential election (again) on behalf of Donald Trump (again). ● Elected Republicans were told that Smirnov’s claims were unreliable, unconfirmed, and probably tainted goods. Yet they demanded the FBI give them access to them, and then they went around promoting them. ● It isn’t enough to say that the Russian government is trying to help Trump—it’s also the case that elected Republicans in Congress were trying to help Russia’s intelligence operation. Not that anyone should be surprised. Trump owns the Republican party. Russia has a vested interest in electing Trump. Ergo, the Republican party will do whatever it can to help Russia’s intelligence operations. One other reason not to be surprised: It’s always been about Russia. Edited March 1, 2024 by robosmith Quote
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