-marries a commie wife; immediately kgb takes interest in him. russian mob approaches him to launder money in his failed real estate projects in new york; this is where he first becomes involved. he continues to launder money for them and is later found doing this again, in florida. he gets flown to russia at some point. when he gets back, he immediately takes out a new york times ad, despite no history in politics before this, advertising pro-russian points, such as that nato should be taken apart. he has maintained this stance ever since and theres been evidence of russian tampering helping him all the way. as for the most recent 2024 election- look at how just before, russia was caught tampering in moldova the same way- coordinated bomb threats on election night- allegations being that the break is used to send in people to add vote counts into the machines. the added number ends up blending in well enough with the real number; its not that different but enough to throw elections. back up and look at the entire history of the soviet kgb, the russian mob, and vladimir putin. theyve been doing this sort of stuff all along. remember that russia was going liberal until a stasi/kgb guy (putin) took it over, in conjunction with the mob, then gave himself a life term. he probably thinks of himself as a russian tsar in the old sense. he seems to be stamping out liberalism, worldwide, as being symptomatic of freedom: where people have many freedoms, they tend over time to lean toward altruism, which naturally comes into opposition with fascism remaining in world systems. if putin can turn everyone conservative, he’ll also make them all more ready to accept being ruled by a tyrant. so he’s starting by trying to make all the conservative people as angry as possible at all the liberal people. he’s working a psyop on the internet with tons of what are actually russian-directed influence accounts; at the same time he’s probably reinforcing trump on the ground, using the ice masks and look and ubiquity as cover to go around threatening liberal judges to get their way in court cases, over and over again, to make this whole thing work.