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It kinda sounds like you'd just rather not believe that US citizens are dumb enough to elect a reality television host on their own.
Like, Occam's Razor this: which is more likely?
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Why do you think it never had any setbacks?
Hyperbole, mostly. Everything has setbacks
The point is, you are describing a level of long term planning and continuity that's frankly inhuman. Yes, Russia has ops. But the kind of power you assign to them belongs to comic books. Overstating the competency of a scary Other on the other side of the planet, while downplaying the actions of the local people and institutions that, you know, actually govern and have a much more direct influence on the trajectory of this country.
If cyrillic keyboards are so goddamn effective, then its only because the last 50+ years of our policy choices have given them such fertile ground.
You really wanna combat Russian ops? Take the trillions of dollars the Pentagon cannot account for every year, and put it in the fucking public school budgets. Make elementary school teachers better payed than football coaches.
Agree 100%.
That's because you think of it as a singular action, instead of a massive, massive domino effect.
The op isn't "let's put Trump in the White House".
The op is "let's slowly erode the fundamentals of democracy and kindness, so that extreme views become normal, causing a growth in the divide between various political options, making even more extreme views seem natural".