Yeah they could’ve. And they groomed hundreds of others, obviously. Not to the same extent. But as long as you throw enough shit on the wall, something sticks. They got lucky with Trump, although it took a long time
But yeah, Russia is good at that shit
What did I just about the strawmen?
Trump is not a sleeper of any sort. Well except in the “napping grandpa” way.
Read the article, maybe?
#The “Kyiv Independent” published an explosive interview on February 26 that torched any lingering doubt about President Donald Trump’s deep ties to Russian intelligence.
Veteran journalist Craig Unger has tracked Trump’s relationships with Moscow for years He laid out evidence that Trump was carefully groomed as a Russian asset beginning in the 1980s. Less than a week after the bombshell report, Trump used his platform at the United Nations to dismiss Ukraine’s pleas and embrace Vladimir Putin’s narrative on Eastern Europe.
His statements cemented the idea that a decades-long foreign plot had successfully infiltrated the Oval Office, transforming the United States into a vessel for Moscow’s ambitions.
Many Americans once dismissed reports of Trump’s ties to Russian intelligence as wild conspiracy theories. Yet Unger’s findings, presented in his books “House of Trump, House of Putin” and “American Kompromat,” outline a consistent chain of events stretching back more than 40 years.
Soviet operatives, later replaced by Russian oligarchs, funneled suspicious cash into Trump’s real estate deals and played upon his narcissistic vanity. Over time, the strategy shaped Trump’s worldview to align seamlessly with the Kremlin’s long-term interests. Today, Russia reaps enormous gains as the White House methodically undermines Western unity, weakening NATO, and eroding confidence among America’s most vital allies.
The pattern was on full display during Trump’s U.N. address, where he castigated Ukraine for “bringing its troubles on itself” and chided Europe for failing to “handle its own backyard.”
In those remarks, he reversed decades of bipartisan consensus that the United States should confront unprovoked aggression in Europe. Instead of backing a nation under siege, Trump effectively blamed Kyiv’s government for the devastation wrought by Russian firepower.
Putin’s state media wasted no time broadcasting those segments, painting the U.S. president as an enlightened leader who recognizes the Kremlin’s alleged right to expand its sphere of influence.
Unger’s new revelations sent shockwaves through Washington circles. Once portrayed by supporters as a patriotic firebrand, Trump now looks more like a Trojan horse carefully cultivated by Russian intelligence. The journalist’s interview with the Kyiv Independent highlighted key phases of infiltration: financial bailouts for Trump when U.S. banks shunned him, orchestrated praise from Russian figures, and direct contact with individuals linked to the KGB’s successor services.
The result, Unger insisted, was a president whose foreign policy systematically furthers Moscow’s objectives — even if he never receives direct orders. In intelligence parlance, that is the very definition of an “asset.”
Strawmen.
“Uh you’re saying Russia has completely controlled the US for several decades.”
No I didn’t lol, learn 2 read a bit.
Challenge the facts instead pushing your childish whatabout strawmen.
“Your problems”
Roflmao illiterate bro. Too illiterate. I’m not American in the slightest. I could drive to St Petersburg in a matter of hours.
Challenge the facts.
A Russian asset: Trump’s policy behavior confirms evidence he was groomed by the Kremlin since the 1980s
Found the guy who bought into the propaganda.
The evidence is all right there. Do you think Putin is the leader of Russia because of honest elections and he’s just the best candidate and Russian democracy works?
Cmon man. Russians have bought celebrities from the US for longer than either of us has been alive. There’s a reason the most chess GM’s come from Russia. They play the long game.
They’re terrifyingly good at spycraft.
Sure yeah I. Don’t disagree too much with anything you’ve said there.
I just think Trumps skills at war is less than Putin’s skill at spycraft.
Culmination? Nah. Just a step in a game.
But yeah, Trump is very clearly a Russian shill. Where have you been living for the past 10 years?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections
It’s so obvious that anyone actually arguing Trump isn’t a Russian shill is almost definitely a Russian shill themselves.
And I’m not Mongolian, dammit.
Huh. I haven’t seen Enemy at the Gates in a long time, guess I should rewatch.
But yeah I post that pic pretty frequently on Lemmy weird you haven’t seen it before but I guess Fediverse is wider than I think.
They don’t know if the US is lying or not because trust in the US is at an all time low.
Yup.
I wonder why.
Oh right because the US commander-in-queef is a Russian shill because Russia managed to influence the US enough to make the whole country cognitively challenged through environmental lead (more of an accident than anything purposefully neurotoxic but anyway) and the destruction of the US education system.
I take it to mean how fucked up one is from an moderate dose.
Yeah, because it’s not about what you say, it’s about how you say it. Or in this case, what you don’t say. Mainly that in comparison to alcohol these risks are ridiculously low, and we still deem alcohol to be acceptable in society.
So if this post and the “truth” in it is to be believed, the implication is that the war on drugs is good because it would seek to lower the usage of these implicitly risky substances.
But alcohol is more risky, we tried banning it as well, but had to stop because prohibition creates far more issues than it solves. In the case of alcohol it was so bad it became clear in a matter of a few years that society won’t survive it.
With less risky and less uses substances, the prohibition is still making things worse, but not as apparently, so there’s not as much pressure politically to fix it.
These two had a backpack full of $2200 USD and over 40 g of cannanis – in a country where any amount is illegal
And I’m a person who grows and sells weed and who’s friend-circles are all smokers, in a country where any amount is illegal. And here a cannabis smoker is basically equated to a junkie shooting up.
And I’m telling you, that’s a small amount. Especially the 40g. If that was all the person had, they wouldn’t have lost it. The only way they lost it is that it was just a small part of their inventory. Which is is. 40g is nothing, and it’s even put in dimebags. This is an everyday hustler and that’s about a days worth of sales. Albeit this guy isn’t a grower, because he hustles dimebags and I don’t know a single grower who sell dimebags like that because of the amount of work you have to put in only for marginal increase in profits. Which is why that 2200 isn’t a days worth of profits, but it is a day or two worth of sales for a hustler.
Hell I just got donated more weed last week and a friend lost an equivalent amount of euros.
Unless you’ve never forgotten anything anywhere, no, that’s not “laughably incompetent” just because you’d think of 2200 as a fortune and 40g as a huge drug stash.
It’s exactly the sort of thing older teenagers and early 20’s do; hustle weed.
But hey if it humours you I’m not judging you for laughing, I can understand it from someone who doesn’t understand the real world.
That’s not a huge sum for a person hustling weed.
So if the if this is “comical incompetence” to you, then I guess your most hilarious anecdote is when you one forgot your car keys in the pockets of your other pants? Or your wallet at home when you went to a store? Lost an expensive phone because you forgot to pick it up from the table you sat in?
That amount of weed and money was probably forgotten for a good while to those pants, because it wasn’t central to the dealer’s life or hustling.
Losing that amount of weed is just pretty everyday and doesn’t seem humorous to me at all.
I don’t get your meaning.
I believe you’re thinking “propaganda” means “bullshit.”
They’re not synonyms.
Do you believe that there has been a war on drugs? Do you believe that there has been propaganda in that war? Something like, say, “reefer madness”? Do you think that universities are ideologically pure institutions with no ties anywhere?
A scientist may check on a thing just because “yeah, lets do science”. But that thing they’re checking may be something someone wants to use to imply that a position they hold on something — ideologically — is the correct one.
Imagine that I’m a billionaire, no limit on my funds. Do you think it would be impossible for me to get someone to study whether too much water is bad for you? Obviously not. Could I then pay the press (or use some presshouses I would own as a billionaire with no fund limits) to circulate the study with dubious headlines which imply water is bad for you? Ofc I could.
Would it be factually wrong? Nope. It would just be like “if you drink too much water without any salts in it, you die, basic fact of medicine”, which is true. But ofc you’d understand that my implication isn’t about making people aware that drinking 10l of distilled water everyday without eating even a morsel of food is bad, obviously.
Propaganda isn’t just someone writing straight up lies and trying to make you believe it.
It’s implication and eliciting feelings.
“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote
When I worked in a store as a 16-year old, handling bottle-returns (we use a deposit system), there were full bottles of liquor and beer returned occasionally.
I don’t see this as being much different.
Also when I flew back from Amsterdam once, even though we went through our pockets and bags, supposedly, I had forgotten a bag of weed to one hoodie pocket. So essentially I attempted to smuggle drugs internationally.
Sure, neither of those equal the amount here because this is for selling. But this is still a very small amount. It’s a hustler of weed that I can promise you exists in every township and village and neighbourhood you can imagine, pretty much globally.
What is more newsworthy to me is that people still consider amounts of weed like this newsworthy. Everyone knows cannabis is mild af yet we still pretend it’s dangerous, much in a similar way that around Christmas everyone pretends Santa is real.
And alcohol is still far worse and people use it in moderation as well.
Anyone spreading drug war propaganda in 2026 deserves to have their naive worldview shat on.
This is newsworthy?
Pfff.
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