• etherphon
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    17 days ago

    It’s pretty wild right? All that talk for decades about Russia, the nuclear drills, all those movies we grew up with where the Russians were the bad guys and then bam complete 180. I suppose it wasn’t quite so sudden but still. Information warfare has really worked well for them.

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      17 days ago

      Not even shy about it! We had Congressmen visiting Moscow on the 4th of July!

      Trump’s first term saw him disavow every domestic intelligence agency that said Russia had influenced the election. “Met with Putin. Great guy by the way. He says it’s all fake news. I believe him.”

      And no translator notes allowed from that meeting! Certainly normal to compartmentalize that shit, but damn, no one in the government heard that discussion. My dumbass would want advisors reviewing what went on!