YA THINK?!?!
What, does the UK want to go to war with the combined might of the USA and the USSR?!
Doesn’t anyone remember the veiled threat Putin publicly gave Trump when he took office again? It was something along the lines of Putin re-emphasizing who was truly in charge… as if he had some kind of blackmail on Trump.
As an American who remembers 2016-2020…
NO FUCKING SHIT, SHERLOCK
Like the Tories weren’t a hop skip and a jump away from him before Reform split their vote.
Earlier this morning a coworker mentioned politicians wearing their corporate sponsors like NASCAR drivers. This was my response:
This is so stupid. He is an asset, whether intentionally or not. Russian media is having a heyday with him. Whether he is an “agent” or not remains ambiguous, but he is absolutely an “asset” to them.
A distinction without a difference?
Assets don’t have to have be in on it intentionally. A tank is an asset. A forest at the border can be an asset. But to be an agent takes volition and consensual involvement.
“possibility”… as if there is any doubt
Honestly, why does it matter? Why not just focus on his policy and his actions? Trump is a fascist, oppressing liberties, defunding public services, and carrying out immensely harmful policy. Why the need to attribute that to a third country? Trump is only bad if he does these things because he’s a Russian asset? If he did this all because of his oligarch friends, and the desire for imperialism in the USA, and the increasingly openly right wing governments in all of the western world, it would still all be wrong.
There’s no need to summon le evil people from the east to objectively analyse the evil policy of Trump, and I don’t understand why you guys need a racist dogwhistle to do so when he is literally every single day walking alongside someone who did two fascist salutes in the inauguration.
If this Russian support structure isn’t recognized and dealt with, Trump just be replaced by the next Russian stooge.
Trump was democratically elected, what are your plans against that?
So was Hitler. Thing is, natural law and positive law can diverge significantly, meaning ctitizens will sometimes have to organize against the products of positive law to preserve their decency and freedom.
Hitler never won absolute majority vote in an election, but I get your point.
I agree fundamentally with what you say even if I don’t believe in a natural law, that’s why I’m a socialist. So I suggest everyone to organise, to unionize their workplace, to build mutual aid structures in their local areas, and to join a revolutionary socialist party.
In a broken system full of voter suppression. Not exactly a fair election by any stretch of the imagination.
…which the democrats upheld during the entirety of the elections. Are the Russians behind the dems too?
Even if there was none of the evidence (“Krasnov” codename claim, etc), the fact that at every turn he does exactly what Putin and the Russian oligarchs want and is actively harming the US and other western countries means everyone needs to treat him like he’s a Russian asset. It almost doesn’t even matter if he officially is or not…
Yup. He is an asset to Russia whether or not he is a willing asset.
The only question is whether he knows he’s a Russian asset. Trump may be working for them without realizing it. All Putin would have to do is convince him he was just giving him advice, one wise ruler to another, because Trump is special and brilliant, and provide a few incentives. Trump would believe that taking the advice was all his own brilliant idea.
Well he is ‘a very stable genius’.
Does it matter for treason if he himself is aware?
