It strikes me as an academic question whether Trump is or isn't formally a Russian asset. The important thing is that he ACTS as though he is. And, as Trump's actions increasingly benefit America's long term foe, you've got to ask when the country will wake up and defend what's left from the […] - ThreadSky

christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy • 5 days ago

It strikes me as an academic question whether Trump is or isn't formally a Russian asset. The important thing is that he ACTS as though he is. And, as Trump's actions increasingly benefit America's long term foe, you've got to ask when the country will wake up and defend what's left from the […]

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katyswain.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@christineburns Trump is only a Putin asset by virtue of the fact that he's an American liability.

People frothing at the mouth about Putin "pulling the strings" are doing so to reassure themselves that America can't by itself produce Trump, Project 2025, MAGA, the Tea Party, the Reagan […]

jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@christineburns According to one of the three (and counting) KGB agents who said Trump is theirs, they didn't even have to use the kompromat they had collected because he was eager to cooperate. So yeah, not technically an asset, he just really likes Putin.

GreenSkyOverMe.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@christineburns I would say from around 1990 (plus or minus 1 year) until 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and was kicked out of G8, they were not foes.

silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@GreenSkyOverMe @christineburns At most until 2008 when they invaded Georgia (and west failed miserably to react to this).

And that’s just the first big event of this type I remember when people started saying „if we don’t stop Russia now, Ukraine will be next”.

GreenSkyOverMe.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@christineburns And I was hoping for the US and Russia to get along - but not like this. I was imagining them as both being non-dictatorships with free speech and human rights at the time.

christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@GreenSkyOverMe There was certainly a lot of hope around after 1990.

warspitefella.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump is 100% a Russian asset

Tharpa.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@christineburns Seems to me that it's intolerable that a Russian traitor should be the President of the USA. The two things .. should not go together.

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