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[–] clutchtwopointzero 7 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

The average American is really, really dumb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 minutes ago

Yes and the propaganda helped too. The billionaires in the US figured out how to get control of most of the media. It's a master class for the billionaires of the rest of the world. I imagine it won't take long for everyone else to start seeing that kind of propaganda as well.

[–] LePoisson 48 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

Trump is 100% a Russian asset, wild to see that after it was blatantly obvious the first go around we were like "yeah let's out a Russian spy back in the white house."

[–] rottingleaf 2 points 29 minutes ago

Judging how Russian elites started licking up to Trump, even blurring out the Soviet emblems in old movies recently in cinema (that's really unexpected), and that general "master is our friend, master will forgive us", it seems that Russia is Trump's asset.

You are forgetting how much power the US and every powerful person in it have. Russia is simply not on the same level, USSR might have been once.

Still, that they are in a relationship is obvious.

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[–] DreamlandLividity 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You know, I can easily imagine the first part opening a lot of peoples eyes about Trump if they saw it on it's own. Add the second part and they are likely to throw it into the flat-earth bucket of statements.

I really wonder how much of the current situation in the US is because people would rather be smug and gloat over people with different politics then actually try to convince them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The president grovels to putin: This is an unprecedented loss of u.s. soft power and the world is judging America for it's cowardice.

The president, congress and every major media organization grovels to netanyahu: ....

This does look bad on our part but the main thing making us look bad on the world stage is our support for Israel. If you ask the average person outside of the west what they find most offensive about this administration they'll probably say its genocidal policy in gaza, not it's shakedown of an ally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

That’s just not true

Countries threatened by China care a lot more about this than Gaza

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another big winner here is China. I would love to know the contents of that meeting between putin and xi, I think back in 2022(?)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It was just this, from both of them:

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[–] disguy_ovahea 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It wasn’t intentional. Trump followed Putin just as Vance followed Trump. He is just too stupid to have seen how this would play out.

Getting attacked by a foreign leader is such an effective way to rally your people behind you, that governments often fabricate external threats as a way to unify their nation. Putin knew the ways this could play out. The only more desirable result for Putin would’ve been Zelenskyy reluctantly accepting the agreement, but globally discrediting the US was a guarantee.

Putin was a KGB intelligence officer for 16 years before going to work for Yeltsin. The man outsmarts intelligence experts for fun. Trump’s ignorance and ego make him the perfect patsy, and the greedy Republicans in office have fully manifested into spineless yes men that are guaranteed to stay out of his way.

[–] Eheran 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Putin is not some 4D Chess master. This should be blatantly obvious since 2022. But he does not need to be what you make him out, all he needs to be is a little bit smarter than the orange idiot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I remember the first time I started to pay attention to geopolitics. It was when George W. Bush was elected president, and it made me freak out a bit. Why would a country like America elect such an obvious idiot to the highest office?

I also remember that Putin in comparison seemed like an intelligent, sensible person, even if tad intimidating.

I'm not sure what my point is except that George W. is a genius compared to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

It wasn't too long ago, we thought palin is batsht insane and stupid,she still is but ?

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[–] ladicius 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It wasn't disinformation - it is a pedophile who had minors delivered into his bed and was filmed during the atrocities. The resulting child pornography is what makes orange guy the lap dog of a psychotic killer.

The rest was easy with an asset that high in the ranks.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Could be. It could also just be bribes.

The current situation is really nice for countries like Russia, Saudi-Arabia and China. They just need to pay a few billion to Trump and get stuff that cannot be bought and are easily worth hundreds of billions from the US empire.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It was mostly disinformation though, if you look at how most of the social media, and MSMs ran, it's mostly talking points from Russia in some form another

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