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    23 hours ago

    What you are saying is that the president of the most powerful country in the world, that spend 10 times more in war than russia, that run the biggest surveillance network ever seen in history, that has thousand of military infrastructures around the planet and that has the most technological advanced army in the world is 100% a russian asset…

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      21 hours ago

      This is obviously subjective and depends how you define “asset”.

      If you’re asking whether Trump is a red sparrow recruited as a orphan and trained in espionage, ballet, and martial arts from the age of 4, that’s obviously not the case.

      If you’re asking whether Trump is easily manipulated by his desire for validation from competitors, or his desire to exert power over others, then that’s obviously true.

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        8 hours ago

        If you’re asking whether Trump is easily manipulated by his desire for validation from competitors, or his desire to exert power over others, then that’s obviously true.

        Then expect him to be manipulated by the richest people on earth not just by russian

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          8 hours ago

          Then expect him to be manipulated by the richest people on earth not just by russian

          both are true. This is not mutually exclusive.

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            7 hours ago

            Indeed but it happens USA has 10 times the bilionares russia has. India has more billionares imagine claiming USA president is controlled by india

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      23 hours ago

      Yes. I think that he might push back at times for appearance sake but his foreign policy is basically just “do what’s good for Russia.”

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          20 hours ago

          I know it doesn’t just boil down to Ukraine, take the situation in Syria for a good example of Trump towing the Russian line during his first term in office.

          So then are you telling me this as a way to make it even more surprising and crazy that Trump and his admin constantly side with Russia?

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            8 hours ago

            The US and Russia side together when it benefit their authoritarian goals, see the case of Snowden getting stuck in russia because USA said so or look at the silence in general concerning global surveillance: russia never spoke a word about it because they also have their own surveillance and they don’t want the public to know about it.

            What do you think the US does with the biggest army in the world? Are all their warplanes getting dust in hangars?