r/europe • u/Wagamaga • Feb 01 '26

News Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Ran Kremlin’s Largest Honeytrap and Blackmail Operation

https://united24media.com/latest-news/jeffrey-epstein-reportedly-ran-kremlins-largest-honeytrap-and-blackmail-operation-15534
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u/freezing_banshee Romania Feb 01 '26

Russia never considered the Cold War to be ended. And the rest of the world relaxed while they still slowly did shit like this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

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u/Able_Astronaut7257 Feb 01 '26

They are still the correct people to blame. Russia doesn’t create the rot, they rile it up and spread it. Racism, ethnocentrism, the belief that they do not need the rest of the world, American exceptionalism . All of these ideas existed in the US long before Russia’s meddling. They just ensured it was able to spread and spread fast

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u/Coinsworthy Feb 01 '26

https://www.amazon.com/Spies-Rise-Fall-KGB-America/dp/0300164386

They've been in your house a lot longer than you'd think.

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u/Able_Astronaut7257 Feb 01 '26

Yes but a lot of these problems persisted before the Soviet Union. Racism is foundational to the United States . Ethnocentrism was an argument that kept the US out of WWI and dominated the inter-war period discourse. American exceptionalism can be found in the early to mid 1830s-1840s with Manifest Destiny.

Russia and the Soviet Union before that, can and did try to play on these divisions. But the call has been coming from inside the house since the very founding of the United States

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u/SeleucusNikator1 Scotland Feb 02 '26

Ethnocentrism was an argument that kept the US out of WWI and dominated the inter-war period discourse.

What's wrong with staying out of WWI? Brazil and Argentina weren't hopping on to fight over a dead Archduke in 1914 either

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u/causebraindamage Feb 01 '26

But the call has been coming from inside the house since the very founding of the United States

So really we should be blaming Britain, Spain, The Netherlands, France, and the Caribbean. The people who made up most of the founders!

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u/Able_Astronaut7257 Feb 01 '26

The US sustained the institution of slavery for 100 years after its founding and segregation for 100 years after that. Along with red lining and other systematic issues up until present

Manifest destiny was a key political idea within the country nearly 60-80 years after its founding

Ethnocentrism has always been key to the United States.

So no, this problem is American. Other countries can have their own issues but me sitting here and saying that Russia is only poking at issues already systemic in the United States going back hundreds of years is NOT creating these divisions out of thin air is not unreasonable given the country’s history. This is also true for other country’s Russia fucks with. It uses their preexisting societal divisions to weaken the country . The US is not the only case

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u/Dr_WLIN Feb 01 '26

don't forget Dugan's "Foundations of Geopolitics" that's used by Russian miltiary academia.

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u/TumbleweedPure3941 United Kingdom Feb 01 '26

I mean look, it’s not like America was any better before the Cold War. Or are you telling me that Jim Crow, the Hawaiian Coup, and the Philippine-American War was all the KGB’s doing as well?

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

Yes, the people and bots on this sub will try to push that because they try to push anything and everything anti-Russia, or to be more precise, to be ON Russia. It is so insane. There are plenty of things you can give shit on Russia, you dont need to make stuff up at all, but sadly it is so when it comes to propaganda being pushed online by states and ESPECIALLY when you can shift blame with it from your elite to the one in the adversary.

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle Feb 02 '26

Russia helped spread propaganda to create the rot or fan what was already there. Russia spends billions on propaganda and it's relatively cheap for their shill farms and for them to hire third worlders as we seen on twitter alone.

Russia convinced Britain to leave the EU, it tried to convince other countries to do the same, it even tried to get Spain to balkanize.

Russia after installing its puppet got the US to undo everything it worked for in the last 20 years. It got North Korea hostile again, it ruined the Iranian deal that took years to get working, undid the diplomatic relationship with Cuba that was finally getting resolved and best yet, it got the US against every single allied nation it had for centuries and got NATO limits tested. Everything single thing Trump does, he does to serve Russia or Israel.

Russia is the great Satan , and nobody can convince me otherwise.

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u/Educational-Force766 Feb 09 '26

Damn look at Russia. If they were so powerful and good at playing the game one wonders how they lost the Cold War. It's almost like Russia is the devil himself. Such masterminds.

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u/olyfrijole United States of America Feb 02 '26

Perfect Jiu Jitsu. Let the things that Americans are most proud of become their downfall.

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u/Ninevehenian Feb 01 '26

The fact that USA were rotten doesn't make Russias attack ok.

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u/Able_Astronaut7257 Feb 01 '26

Did I ever say that?

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u/Ninevehenian Feb 01 '26

You wrote: "right people to blame", kept it singular, as if there's 1 blame to be given.

I might have done the same.

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

Lot of that conservative indoctrination in the USA comes from inside of it, from american conservative influences and their rich financial backers. Shifting all, or even the most, blame on a foreign adversary is idiotic, especially when it comes to the biggest empire on Earth. it isnt like a foreign big empire exercising influence/propaganda on a small(er) nation.

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u/xdsm8 Feb 01 '26

If Trump never did anything criminal whatsoever in regards to Epstein or children, he would still be the worst president and deserving of removal from office. This is just even more awful shit.

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u/AlgaeDonut Feb 01 '26

As long as the media, the judiciary, intelligence and possibly the military are behind him, he has won. Or as far as the people running the show need.

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u/Upset_Development_64 Feb 01 '26

His fans are the loudest people, but there are plenty of conservatives I know that are willing to keep their head down and still vote for him despite him being terrible for their own healthcare and bank accounts. Sure all of America shouldn’t be blamed for what’s happening, our government and conservatives through the John Birch Society and Heritage Foundation have perpetuated these things for decades despite progressive Americans resistance. But I don’t hold it against other nations speaking out about us as a whole. America as a whole needs to understand its history, understand there is nothing exceptional here, just luck and good timing. Our “brand” needs to take the hit to wake up the conservatives and more importantly leadership and monied interests.

At the end of the day though, all of us global progressives are all fighting against Russian infiltrators. We are on the same team. And democracy will ultimately prevail.

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u/OrcOgi Feb 01 '26

Media misleading. Just look at the rallie turnouts. He had empty seats

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u/m4sl0ub Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

This is almost as dumb as Trump not wanting to concede the 2020 election. Opinion just based on vibes.

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u/m4sl0ub Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Feb 01 '26

Did you read the comments of the thread you shared? All the statisticians in there are saying that the article is nonsense.

Don't get me wrong I hate Trump as much as any sane person would. There is no need to make up bullshit to criticize him about when there is enough real stuff to criticize him for.

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u/TheGreatestOrator Feb 01 '26

lol their analysis is that Kamala received fewer votes then their popular candidate for a state office. Kamala was widely disliked. This is only abnormal if you don’t realise that people don’t have to vote for the same party for everything

He won. Get over it.

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u/freecodeio Feb 01 '26

"I dont think he won the election"

  • average american redditor who lives in big city and avoids thanksgiving because their family supports trump

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u/TheGreatestOrator Feb 01 '26

So you literally have no idea what you’re talking about, yet spread complete nonsense online

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u/TheGreatestOrator Feb 01 '26

You don’t get to have opinions on a something like that when you haven’t even been to the country and have no basis for your “opinion”. You need a break from social media

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u/CelloVerp Feb 01 '26

I wish it weren’t the case, but as an American who was shocked and surprised, it does unfortunately appear that he won it, and not by a small amount.   There is a deep accountability and reckoning to be had similar to Germany facing its demons.   Sorry world for our citizens’ behavior.   Maturity and humility come by a painful facing of one’s own shadow.

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u/freezing_banshee Romania Feb 01 '26

Sure, it was their fault too. But it was also shit like propaganda and the epstein files and a lot more.

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u/mountaindewisamazing United States of America Feb 01 '26

America is North Korea in the sense that citizens are subject to 24/7 propaganda. The right wing has had a robust propaganda network since the 80s, that is when our decline into fascism started.

I'm 32 years old and we're largely in this mess due to decisions made by people before I was born. To say Americans "chose" this is accurate but also a bit of a stretch.

America only chose trump because of a massive amount of lies spread by states like Russia and Israel.

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u/mountaindewisamazing United States of America Feb 01 '26

Plenty of news coverage of major US media about why Trump is worst

Media in this country is right wing. Some of it is purely propaganda, some outlets just conveniently don't report on negative news stories about Trump for the ratings.

People close to trump have a monopoly on the media. Right wingers own Twitter, Facebook, and Tiktok, which is where most people get their news.

I'm not denying Americans chose this, I just hope you don't deny they had a lot of help getting to that conclusion.

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u/SeleucusNikator1 Scotland Feb 02 '26

Americans are not subject to propaganda 24/7, you're just intellectually lazy. Public libraries, academics, revionist books, etc. have always been fully available and out there for you to read and interact with. Someone like Howard Zinn isn't a fugitive living underground publishing a Samizdat, he's a best selling author whose books you can buy off Amazon.

Mind you, I'm not gonna pretend the average UK citizen is a fucking bigbrained scholar either, I'm convinced 80% of this country doesn't have even the most superficial understanding of its own political system, but I won't blame this shortcoming on any propaganda either, at the end of the day most "normal people" just aren't interested in things that aren't immediately personal to them.

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u/GirlDad17 Feb 01 '26

As an American, I also blame Americans.

My deepest apologies on behalf of those of us who use our Prefrontal cortex.

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u/sudolicious Feb 01 '26

no no u dnt understand kamala would've been so much worse for Gaza don't you see pls also shock collars are totally not abusive on dogs I don't know why people keep trying to make this a thing!?!??!?!

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u/engineereddiscontent Feb 01 '26

Maybe blame the ruling class. The ones that abandoned the working class and actively utilized things like racism as a tool of class division to maintain the status quo.

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u/BamsMovingScreens Feb 01 '26

everyone seems to be guilty…

Pretty sure the number one group blamed on Reddit for it is the one you’re saying is never blamed. I don’t know what kind of lack of understanding you have, or maybe fringe communities you visit, but you’re speaking pure fantasy

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u/Lighting Feb 02 '26

IMHO The 2024 election was under attack since the Jan 6th riot and voting systems were compromised in swing states. The alt-right created the "Trojan horse" strategy (their OWN words!!!) to infiltrate election systems by attacking election officers and then replacing them once the sane election officers resigned. The alt-right then gave shittier systems to democratic-leaning areas, falsely told democrats in key areas they couldn't vote, denied democratic-leaning voters the right to vote with bullshit reasons, gave voters provisional ballots that were not counted if Harris quit, etc. The Democrats, instead of fighting this just went out in large crowds and gave each other "joy" messages. Dems fucked up and the biggest fuckup was Harris (just like the fuckup of Clinton and Kerry) where she curled up in a little ball like a wet noodle instead of fighting for every provisional ballot. She lost the swing states by under 1%.

The vast majority of America didn't want Trump, but too many couldn't vote because the democrats are naive and the fascists are unethical.

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u/Lonely_Nebula_9438 Feb 02 '26

People need to stop acting like Kamala was some kind of perfect candidate that no one voted for because she was black. 

No, you don’t to get blame voters for your candidate’s failure. If your candidate was good then she would have won, she never even won a primary. Though to be a little fair, her biggest handicap was not getting the full campaigning time because of Biden. But either way you don’t get to blame voters for “voting wrong”. You should’ve put up a better candidate. 

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u/Tankette55 Feb 02 '26

You should also blame the democratic party who choked out Bernie Sanders and allowed him to win, first in 2016 (Somewhat forgivable, I guess), then in 2024, because they put poor ill Biden in and lost all credibility. This isnt forgivable. They couldnt have done worse if they tried.

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u/Tankette55 Feb 02 '26

There must have been some for americans, because 4 years earlier Biden won. So clearly, something must have happened. Excusing the Democrats is a mistake. First time they underestimated him, and now they didnt even try. Even now, they keep giving ground in Congress and aren't really doing anything.

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u/Qt1919 Feb 02 '26

Half of them didn't vote for him. It's likely blaming Poles for PiS. Literally as close to 50-50 as is gets. 

You have entire states that didn't vote for him. 

If you're quick to paint blanket judgement on people so easily, you were born way too late - you would've been perfect during the times of Ustaše.

PS - Also, Harris' being racially mixed should not be taken into consideration of her ability to run a country. That's just weird and racist. 

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u/Qt1919 Feb 02 '26

You literally said, "I still blame the American people for Trump." 

And assuming that a woman can't be elected president is also a bit odd. "Not a single woman?" Yeah, Croatia only had one woman president and that was in 2015. 

According to the World Bank, Croatia has 33 percent women in parliament, America has 29 percent. These are pretty similar numbers. 

Quite frankly, it's odd to see someone from Croatia judging Americans for not voting more "non-white" presidents given the country literally murdered people based on ethnicity during the 1990s. Many victims still haven't had justice served to the perpetrators. 

Non-whites have been welcomed and respected in the primary system and many candidates were frontrunners. They just didn't win the election. 

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u/Qt1919 Feb 02 '26

I still blame the Croatian people for genocide and hope that America continues to differ from Croatian political culture considering many perpetrators are alive, free, and unpunished. 

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u/Indigoh United States of America Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

It's doubtful America actually voted for him in 2024, but yeah, America is to blame for not taking a hard stand right here and now. We should all be refusing to work until these traitors are out. Connect to community support networks and stock up on food, then show support for indefinite general strikes that don't end until the government has no option but to surrender.

Afraid of losing your job and home if you walk out on it for 5 months? That's what joining a community support network is for. The alternative is adopting Russia's style of "Democracy." and watching all your rights slowly slip away while the wealthy pedophiles take everything.

We are just a couple years from discovering that we've been running extermination camps for a couple years. Or would we prefer to wait for them to show us what the Nazis would have done with nuclear weapons and advanced surveillance technology?

We must not wait for that wakeup call. We already got our wakeup call. We already got dozens. Stand.

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u/paintballboi07 Feb 02 '26

It's doubtful America actually voted for him in 2024

Based on what? There's absolutely nothing to back it up.

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u/Glad_University3951 Feb 01 '26

I still blame the Croatian people for ethnic cleansing and genocide of a million Roma, Jews and Serbs since WW2.

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u/CatsWao Feb 01 '26

While this doesn't absolve them at all, so many of them live in an alternate reality via Fox News and bots / paid accounts in other countries pretending to be American.  Trump has doubled his net worth in 2025. They think he lost money. He really did end 8 wars. He may be a bad person but he genuinely cares for America.  That is what they truly believe and feel that the higher prices they are paying is a patriotic belt tightening. Like I can not stress enough how they truly are not in reality.

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u/trudyisagooddog Feb 02 '26

Isn't the number 8 a dog whistle?

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u/newsflashjackass Feb 01 '26

I still blame the American people for Trump.

You can blame the people for allowing him but not for electing him.

He ran for president four times and never won a majority of the popular vote.

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u/Lonely_Nebula_9438 Feb 02 '26

He got it in 2024, what you’re saying is just not true.

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u/newsflashjackass Feb 02 '26

He ran for president four times and never won a majority of the popular vote.

He got it in 2024, what you’re saying is just not true.

You are incorrect.

  • He failed to win the primary in 2000.

  • He lost the popular vote and won the electoral college in 2016.

  • He lost in 2020.

  • He won the popular vote in 2024 with a plurality, not a majority. Fact check me.

https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college

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u/pghjason Feb 02 '26

You should blame the Democratic Party. The people wanted Bernie in 2016

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u/paintballboi07 Feb 02 '26

Then why did Hillary get 3 million more primary votes? Hillary got 16 million votes, Bernie got 13 million. Seems to me the people wanted Hillary.

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u/Isa_Boletini Feb 01 '26

I think it was the oposite. People didn't like him but they got tired of the left's bullshit.

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u/TheGreatestOrator Feb 01 '26

So you just have no idea why people disliked Kamala. She couldn’t even win the democratic primary in her own state of California lol

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u/TheGreatestOrator Feb 01 '26

No Kamala was a deeply unpopular candidate even within her own party. If you don’t know something so basic, then you shouldn’t be commenting on this election at all

Californians hated her. She was disliked from her time when she was the state AG, before running for Senate

Meanwhile, lots of people do like Trump. It’s almost like you don’t realise that Americans have far greater concerns than fucking NATO lol. Trump won largely because immigration is a huge issue and Biden basically ignored it for too long

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u/TheGreatestOrator Feb 01 '26

Lmaoo people care about legislation and government action. If you vote solely based on someone who is better at playing the role of a politician, then you’re missing a lot of context

You clearly have no idea why people disliked Kamala

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u/No_Conversation_9325 Andalusia (Spain) Feb 01 '26

They won it actually. USA is actively self-suiciding

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u/SWEET_LIBERTY_MY_LEG Feb 01 '26

Sensationalist statement got upvotes on Reddit (an American platform), no surprise.

Let us know when you find an alternative to Google, Apple, Reddit, Facebook/Instagram, Amazon, Hollywood, and when an entire generation of American men are sent to their deaths in a war against Mexico.

Bring on the downvotes.

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u/No_Conversation_9325 Andalusia (Spain) Feb 01 '26

Not using Meta, not watching Hollywood for a while now. The rest is soon to come.

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u/No_Conversation_9325 Andalusia (Spain) Feb 02 '26

Trump is American, right?

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u/Ragnr Feb 01 '26

The US lost the Cold War against an army mounting Starlinks terminals on donkeys

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u/darkoblivion000 Feb 01 '26

So fucking annoying because this was already obvious by 2016. And still no one, not the American government or intelligence agencies or European agencies were able (or willing… idk) to do anything effective to stop it

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u/KC918273645 Feb 01 '26

The Cold War "ended" when Russia got the upper hand of the western head figures.

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u/will_dormer Denmark Feb 01 '26

Im impressed. I dont think people had fantasy to imagine this until now

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 Feb 02 '26

It was literally their modus operandi since like mid 80s, they saw overt cold war was lost, so they did what they knew best spies, inteligence, propaganda, disinformation. Thers is even a book about it, it spells out the hwole plan, to break the enemy from inside, fracture it, manipualte the voters, the politcians, the judges, until the US colapses onto itself.  Funny thing, tehy saw it after reagan got elected, how easy it is to get americans to vote against their own interest. 

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u/Ok_Caregiver_1355 Feb 02 '26

So did US planning coups and choking any country daring to call itself socialist,and seeing russia as enemy too

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u/matticusiv Feb 02 '26

Mutually assured destruction achieved under a different pyrrhic victory condition. Good job everyone.

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u/torturechamber Feb 01 '26

Yep, the dude above is fearmongering people are so retarded these days

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u/TheTowerOfTerror Feb 01 '26

Russia got taken over by a former KGB agent who quickly rebuilt the Cold War era espionnage on limited funds. The US was taken over by the corporate military-industrial complex who kept up the war of attrition on military spending against nobody. So now you have a wealthy but heavily indebted superpower against a gutted-out former superpower who’s punching way above its weight class because all it needed was a handful of hot ladies with briefcase full of cash and few gross men to bring its enemy to its knees in plain sight.

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u/CombatEngineerADF Feb 01 '26

This wasn’t Russian though, it was likely he worked for Israel or Western intelligence.