• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Putin and many other people saw they could use Trump to further their ends.

    Trump’s never been shy about putting himself up for sale. That’s the reason Hillary backed him for the GOP primary in '15. She thought he’d be easy to manipulate, then push aside when she was done with him.

    Possible that Putin made the same mistake, only to discover the EU could outbid him. Either way, Trump’s family has grown fat playing Western Capitalists against Eastern Nationalists.

    Putin’s been backing Trump since his bankruptcy problems

    Trump’s been working the US bankruptcy courts to his favor since the 1970s. And Trump’s been trafficking sex workers out of the Eastern Block for his friends in Manhattan since the 1980s.

    At every step, liberals turned a blind eye or helped him out.

    Until they reaped what they’d sown.

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      1 month ago

      The elites turned a blind eye. The courts saw him as too costly to prosecute fully. But Putin was still a part of this and it’s obvious how he benefited. I don’t know why you’re singling out “liberals”.

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        The elites turned a blind eye.

        They were enthusiastic accomplices.

        The courts saw him as too costly to prosecute fully.

        So they prosecuted the most broke and vulnerable, instead.

        Putin was still a part of this

        As a scapegoat, a boogeyman, and a useful idiot who could justify another generation of Western military industrial economic looting.