• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I mean, I wasn’t impressed with Obama, but I did vote against Trump every time. The reason that Trump won is because Americans are terrible at spotting propaganda, are racist, worship the rich, can’t tell the difference between tv and reality, and what an instant gratification economy and Trump promised that. They would rather go along with the lie they want to heard rather than the truth they don’t want to hear.

      Putin and many other people saw they could use Trump to further their ends. That also includes Israel and the billionaire class. A lot of money got pumped into marketing Trump. Putin’s been backing Trump since his bankruptcy problems and he was just a way to launder money, but when Trump was slighted by a Black man and decided to run for office, Putin saw an opportunity to divide America. When Trump won, he saw an opportunity to take Ukraine.

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        8 days ago

        Putin and many other people saw they could use Trump to further their ends.

        Trump’s never been shy about putting himself up for sale. That’s the reason Hillary backed him for the GOP primary in '15. She thought he’d be easy to manipulate, then push aside when she was done with him.

        Possible that Putin made the same mistake, only to discover the EU could outbid him. Either way, Trump’s family has grown fat playing Western Capitalists against Eastern Nationalists.

        Putin’s been backing Trump since his bankruptcy problems

        Trump’s been working the US bankruptcy courts to his favor since the 1970s. And Trump’s been trafficking sex workers out of the Eastern Block for his friends in Manhattan since the 1980s.

        At every step, liberals turned a blind eye or helped him out.

        Until they reaped what they’d sown.

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          8 days ago

          The elites turned a blind eye. The courts saw him as too costly to prosecute fully. But Putin was still a part of this and it’s obvious how he benefited. I don’t know why you’re singling out “liberals”.

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            The elites turned a blind eye.

            They were enthusiastic accomplices.

            The courts saw him as too costly to prosecute fully.

            So they prosecuted the most broke and vulnerable, instead.

            Putin was still a part of this

            As a scapegoat, a boogeyman, and a useful idiot who could justify another generation of Western military industrial economic looting.