cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25925641
A former senior Soviet KGB spy chief has claimed that Donald Trump was recruited as a spy by Russian intelligence as early as 38 years ago by his department, and given the codename ‘Krasnov’.
In an extraordinary post on Facebook on 20 February, Alnur Mussayev – who used to run the successor to the Soviet-era KGB in Kazakhstan – claimed that he was personally aware of Trump’s recruitment by the agency in 1987.
The recruitment, he said, was undertaken by his own KGB department. One of the key roles of that department was to acquire intelligence through business leaders in Western countries.
It is the simplest explanation for speed running Putin’s wish list / collapsing the USA: Abandon Ukraine and Taiwan, alienate Canada, Mexico, and the EU, tank the financial markets, genocide Palestine, perma-fuck the climate, delete the CIA, make air travel unsafe, end all investigations of foreign influence, all but delete healthcare for the masses and taxes for the oligarchs, and roll back equal rights 50 years. Busy first month. Next up is fucking over the G7 and NATO (Not leaving because he needs the veto power) and won’t be long before he starts mentioning dropping the Russian sanctions
Russia literally has a full time, round the clock, years long military operation to support Trump online. Complete with memes, slogans, videos, comments, conspiracy theories, misinformation the whole nine yards.
Anyone trying to explain it all away with “because he’s tough” or whatever is like listening to a toddler argue that the cat is the one who shit in his diaper, would take some pretty wild mental gymnastics to believe when the evidence is right before your eyes
While I admit this is technically a conspiracy theory, I think it’s a lot more likely than most people are even able to understand… They can understand the concept of “State level spy shit,” but this is somehow outside the realm of possibility? Really?
Edit for bonus food for thought: Russia and China have an economic system outside of the Dollar that they would -love- to be the world standard. Money influences behavior better than anything else.