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0xytoday at 3:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

By torching Russia reputationally by showing their radar and guidance equipment to be utter garbage in Venezuela and Iran. I'd say it's the opposite.

Both Russia and China's equipment is worthless and was dismantled by the US like it was made of plastic.

The 'Trump is a Russian asset' narrative came from DNC propaganda that was later proven to be completely fabricated, by the way.


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ukblewistoday at 3:58 PM

Not sure how this got flagged. It is clearly pertinent and accurate… I’m starting to doubt that this platform really enables objective discussion

convolvatrontoday at 4:00 PM

that's not at all true, Muller found clear evidence of systematic Russian influence campaigns with a goal towards influencing the election towards trump. despite the existence of a few suspicious meetings between the trump campaign and the Russian, there was insufficient evidence to bring forward a criminal case for collusion.

ralglandtoday at 4:14 PM

I was of your opinion during the Biden administration. Now after researching the Epstein issues, I don't think that Trump was a formal asset but he definitely engaged in mutually beneficial deals. I think the presentation of the DNC and the infamous letter signed by 50 security analysts was a mistake.

If you go back:

- Trump bought extensive anti NATO full page ads around 1987 right after an extended trip to Russia.

- The father of Ivana was a Czech spy.

- Trump had a Russian buy a Florida house way above market price.

- Trump used a Russian expat to install TV sets in his Hyatt hotel (nice way of surveilling all guests).

- Trump was bailed out by Deutsche Bank (Epstein's favorite bank) when he was blacklisted by all American banks after his largest of innumerable bankruptcies. Whether that bailout was financed by Russians has not been proven but is still thought likely.

It is also possible that all that is his cover and he actually is a CIA asset. With Trump you just have to watch what he does and guess.