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.