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wild watching a republic getting dismembered in front of your eyes without a shot fired putina is scum but this is the greatest intelligence coup in world hist

• mindslight 7mo ago
  Given the senseless attacking of Iran (which doesn't seem to be enough in Russia's interest to have prompted it, oil prices notwithstanding), I think it's probably better modeled as countries with Epstein-style kompromat on Trump vs countries without kompromat on Trump. Not even deliberately attacking per se, but rather because Trump is an old man angry at the world and wanting to create some kind of legacy. And the countries that have kompromat are much better protected from his negative-sum "deals". Of course it's not just Trump but all of the enablers and supporters who have themselves given up on our society, and work overtime to pull comforting signals out of the noise of his incoherent ramblings and actions. The best I can tell, the main draw seems to be something like if our country is going into the dustbin of history, then they're at least going to choose who gets to push it in. (in line with more specific narratives that at least some supporters would own up to, like a religious fundamentalist desire for an apocalyptic holy war)