• Hegar
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    892 months ago

    Their obvious incompetence is why putin choose them to lead our country.

    • @phubarr
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      I’ve been telling people for years, Russia most certainly influenced the outcome of the US elections because they have a huge interest in placing inept, incompetent, easily manipulated fools in power, in their “enemy” countries.

      It wouldn’t surprise me if they had something to do with an actor becoming president of Ukraine. They had plans to take Ukraine, and they didn’t want a real politician in power when they tried it.

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        they have a huge interest in placing inept, incompetent, easily manipulated fools in power, in their “enemy” countries.

        They have really outdone themselves this time. It’s actually impressive.

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        My theory is that Putin blames the US for destroying the Soviet Union. He blames us for forcing the USSR into a cold war it never wanted and he saw first hand how endless anti-communist propaganda turned the whole western world against the USSR… So now he believes he is doing to the US what we did to the USSR, bombarding us with endless disinformation and propaganda to destroy our country from the inside out.

        • @shalafi
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          52 months ago

          Wow. That makes a lot of sense and is a take I’ve never heard or thought of.

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          annihilated by creator

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          Believe it or not I’m still thinking about what you said here. Just today I was thinking how ridiculous it was that the same people who condemned communism due to its tendency for corruption due to greed advocated for trickle-down economics, as if it wasn’t subject to the same exact behavioral flaw. Looking back at it almost 40 years later (I was there, I remember the 80s), it comes off like the US didn’t think their shit could possibly stink. The 80s was all about glamorizing capitalistic greed, but it’s almost like trickle-down economics was a communist policy in disguise. I’m definitely not pro-Putin, but I can definitely see why your theory holds water. We gave the Kremlin every reason to hate us. Now it’s our turn to get destroyed by greed and corruption. The same generation who were 20-30 in the 80s and living the greed-life are now 60-70 and filling the seats of congress and the c-suites/boards of corporations.