Kremlin plot to put Trump in White House
Jul 15, 2021 15:07:59 GMT
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Post by pyccku on Jul 15, 2021 15:07:59 GMT
OK, I hate to say I told you so...but I remember discussing this back after he was elected in 2016!
Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House
some highlights:
It is scary to see how easily manipulated large sections of the US population are - and it hasn't stopped. The same people who were convinced that Trump was a good choice - rather than an impulsive and mentally unbalanced threat to the nation - are now being manipulated into avoiding vaccines and protesting public health measures. They are being manipulated in some cases into dying for the cause - but do they realize that the cause is NOT "freedom" but instead the furthering of the goals of a foreign nation?
It does not surprise me because as the article mentions, American exceptionalism and a willingness to believe things based on magical thinking make us particularly vulnerable to propaganda and manipulation. So many will say "oh, advertising doesn't work on me" or "I think for myself" while using the latest cell phone, eating at the heavily-advertised restaurant and parroting the talking points. Do they ever ask themselves why the right-wing talking points so often align with the Russian ones? It doesn't make them even a little bit curious? We are not immune to propaganda and we are not skeptical enough because we simply haven't been exposed to it as much as the citizens of other countries. We just tell ourselves everything is great, the US is great, nothing bad ever happens here or will happen here because we're different and special. And then when things DO come out that show that we've had out low points in history as well, there's a huge push against teaching about those things.
Anyway, congrats to those who voted for Trump again in 2020. You unwittingly did your best to realize the agenda of Putin and the Russians. Who knows, you might still be successful.
Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House
some highlights:
Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.
The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present.
They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position.
There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”.
There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”.
The paper refers to “certain events” that happened during Trump’s trips to Moscow. Security council members are invited to find details in appendix five, at paragraph five, the document states. It is unclear what the appendix contains.
“It is acutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate his [Trump’s] election to the post of US president,” the paper says.
This would help bring about Russia’s favoured “theoretical political scenario”. A Trump win “will definitely lead to the destabilisation of the US’s sociopolitical system” and see hidden discontent burst into the open, it predicts.
The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present.
They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position.
There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”.
There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”.
The paper refers to “certain events” that happened during Trump’s trips to Moscow. Security council members are invited to find details in appendix five, at paragraph five, the document states. It is unclear what the appendix contains.
“It is acutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate his [Trump’s] election to the post of US president,” the paper says.
This would help bring about Russia’s favoured “theoretical political scenario”. A Trump win “will definitely lead to the destabilisation of the US’s sociopolitical system” and see hidden discontent burst into the open, it predicts.
It is scary to see how easily manipulated large sections of the US population are - and it hasn't stopped. The same people who were convinced that Trump was a good choice - rather than an impulsive and mentally unbalanced threat to the nation - are now being manipulated into avoiding vaccines and protesting public health measures. They are being manipulated in some cases into dying for the cause - but do they realize that the cause is NOT "freedom" but instead the furthering of the goals of a foreign nation?
It does not surprise me because as the article mentions, American exceptionalism and a willingness to believe things based on magical thinking make us particularly vulnerable to propaganda and manipulation. So many will say "oh, advertising doesn't work on me" or "I think for myself" while using the latest cell phone, eating at the heavily-advertised restaurant and parroting the talking points. Do they ever ask themselves why the right-wing talking points so often align with the Russian ones? It doesn't make them even a little bit curious? We are not immune to propaganda and we are not skeptical enough because we simply haven't been exposed to it as much as the citizens of other countries. We just tell ourselves everything is great, the US is great, nothing bad ever happens here or will happen here because we're different and special. And then when things DO come out that show that we've had out low points in history as well, there's a huge push against teaching about those things.
Anyway, congrats to those who voted for Trump again in 2020. You unwittingly did your best to realize the agenda of Putin and the Russians. Who knows, you might still be successful.
