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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
Our house,
Have you seen Icarus on netflix? Watched it last night, pretty crazy. If those are the lengths putin will go to to win some extra golds at the lol winter olympics imagine what he's doing to win and keep the us presidency.
It's a pretty great doc on it's own. Guy thinks he's making a lighthearted morgan spurloc supersize me thing about doping in cycling and somehow gets wrapped up in fbi investigations into russia. Def worth a watch imo.
I'll check it out now, thanks.
Any documentary on Putin is eye popping. Every American should get familiar with his playbook, because the US government is literally a cookie cutter of it right now. Trump has been around the Russian stuff for a long time. He's an idiot, but learned through insane repitition.
What Putin did to Ukraine is abominable. Paul Manafort and Michael Caputo (the guy from behind Trump last night at the Phoenix rally) were 2 key players in that takeover. Ukraine is also a testing ground for what he's doing to all the other Democracies. Military action is the final step, once a country has been weakened enough for all the other "hybrid (cyber/media/political) warfare" that the common folk like us don't care about.
Aside from Ukraine, the Russian apartment bombings of 1999 are a MIND BLOWING story of how Putin became President.
Finally, Putin's experience with this stuff is extensive. It's all brand new to our country. There's little doubt he's making a move on the world. America is such a big part of it, and you're 1000% right that he will go to any lengths to keep the US. What scares me the most is he has counters to fight against anything we can think of...Congress, Mueller, whatever, and will only use them if push comes to shove.
Our government isn't stopping him, and he won't stop voluntarily. There's only one way for us to fight it (the media has been amazing here, which is why Trump slams them all day and night): Exposing it all through public awareness.
Nearly every single thing Trump says is bull**** to make big stories in the media that aren't about Russia. Our Democracy crumbles in the background.