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> I remember when Romney was running for president, he kept saying that Russia was a big threat, and that we were underestimating them. That's why Russia didn'
by krn 8y ago
> I remember when Romney was running for president, he kept saying that Russia was a big threat, and that we were underestimating them.
That's why Russia didn't want Mitt Romney to become Trump's secretary of state:
"Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Russia-backed online “trolls” flooded social media to try to block Mitt Romney from securing a top job in the incoming administration, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows."[1]
"Putin’s former secretory, Igor Sechin counts Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s secretary of state, as a close personal friend, after the two men — during Tillerson’s time as Exxon Mobil CEO — struck a 2012 agreement that entailed investments by Exxon and Rosneft worth $500bn. When sanctions imposed on Sechin and Rosneft imperilled that deal and banned him from visiting the US, Russia’s response was to lament that he could no longer “ride the roads of the United States on motorcycles with Tillerson”."[2]
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-trolls-tried-to-torpedo-mitt-romneys-shot-at-secretary-of-state-1520505000 https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-trolls-tried-to-torpedo...
[2] https://www.ft.com/content/dc7d48f8-1c13-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6 https://www.ft.com/content/dc7d48f8-1c13-11e8-aaca-4574d7dab...
- secfirstmd 8y agoOn this topic, I really recommend the book by Ronan Farrow: "War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence"
- TheForumTroll 8y ago"I know it is true because an American paper says Russian did X and Y". I'm not saying it isn't, but WSJ and FT as sources? Really?
- pc86 8y agoI'm not sure what you want as sources if two well respected, global news publications don't make the cut.
- fourpacalypse 8y agoThose are legit, fairly reliable news sources.
- krn 8y agoIf you want to understand how Russia works, there are plenty of international sources. "How Russia won the World Cup" by the The Guardian[1] is a one of them. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/14/how-russia-won-the-world-cup https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/14/how-russia-won-...
- neonate 8y agoThe Guardian is not a reliable source on this topic. For example, the ludicrous Luke Harding.
- krn 8y agoThe Guardian has published more facts about Russia's interference in Brexit and the US presidential election than probably any other newspaper in the world, and has been owned by a non-profit organization since 1936[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
- dragonwriter 8y agoFT is not by any standard an American paper, unless the US annexed either the UK (where it is HQed) or Japan (where it's corporate parent is based) when I wasn't paying attention.
- furgooswft13 8y agoI mean I guess it's possible that a large number of Trump supporters on the Internet would be pretty incensed about the prospect of the literal embodiment of the GOP establishment and #NeverTrump being appointed Secretary of State, especially when Trump presented himself during the campaign as anti-interventionist. But nah, russian trolls.