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By this standard a whole bunch of american libertarians, gold bugs, etc. are also russian assets, because they had a show on RT in the past. RT at the time just
by megous 7y ago
By this standard a whole bunch of american libertarians, gold bugs, etc. are also russian assets, because they had a show on RT in the past. RT at the time just gave more voice to all kinds of pre-existing fringe voices in US to sow discord in US.
- cthalupa 7y agoI mean, a lot of them probably are, or at least had overtures to flip them. Giving an (at least semi-)hostile foreign government leverage over your is one of the very first steps in tradecraft to flipping someone and turning them into an asset. I feel like believing that there would be no effort on the part of the Russian government to turn these people into assets is fairly naive.