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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How can anyone say Trump ISN'T beholden to Putin? Even if you know nothing of their 30 year relationship, Trump is doing everything that a puppet of Putin would do. Russia really just... won the Cold War ultimately. They did it. They have a Russian asset as POTUS, Russian asset at head of intelligence at ODNI, and many many others scattered throughout.

All of this is straight out of "Foundations of Geopolitics" by Dugin.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

Nailed it. Prez does not have the juice to straight pull out of nato. So this jingoistic adventurism is meant to gin enough support for it.

I do not think they will find the support they need here though. We all like europe and canada here.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

and on top of that, it's very likely that china and russia have infiltrated a lot of critical IT infrastructure after the SolarWinds debacle. Haven't heard much about the cleanup; It's like a free for all currently.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago

You don't even need to rely on adversaries to hack into the systems when you have insider threats right here in America. Musk is an enemy of the state and when he was muckin around in DOGE, exfiltrating all of our data to private servers, selling secrets to Russians, etc., after he exfiltrated data from NLRB within 30 min there were attempts with correct username and password combinations to access internal servers from Russian IP addresses. We're so fucked, and I don't think we'll get back to the same level of secrecy for at least a generation (maybe 20-30 years).

No one is talking about it anymore because there are even more pressing issues with American citizens.