R_P wrote:

ffs ... do you really want me to list all of Russia's contacts to far right politicians and influencers in the west? Srsly?

 steeler wrote:
I believe that's called circumstantial evidence. 

If it's all so obvious then it should be easy for your myriad of intelligence services to provide direct links and have people act on those links.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

There does seem to be a fair amount of “coincidences” — sanctions on Russian oil temporarily lifted; pull back on US support to Ukraine; threatens to leave NATO.

 R_P wrote:

It's not a conspiracy. It's observed fact. For whatever reasons or motives, Trump's second term has been a godsend to Putin. They are best buddies.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
Back to the Manchurian puppet conspiracy.

 R_P wrote:

That is actually funny.
But also dishonest given that Trump is actually doing Putin's bidding, the biggest boss out there.  
The greatest fault on the left is thinking that politics is only made up of systemic causes (thank Marx for that). 
It's not. It's more like a drunk lurching down the road with more than a strong dose of contingency thrown in.
If the causes are purely systemic, then there a multiples of them shoving history into unexpected tangents.

Fooled by the mask that had to come off eventually

It was their final, most essential command, "After all (decades we fucked you), fuck yourselves!

Admiral Disney's boast of Feb. 20

And occasionally repeated in this forum by lemmings

The US-Israel Alliance Exists To Fix The Problems Created By Its Existence

Israel is despised by middle eastern populations because the west dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization and has forced it into being through continuous brute military force ever since, and that violence is all Israel’s opponents are ever responding to. The west created the violence it claims to be countering.

So they lie and make up stories about why it makes perfect sense for American soldiers to be headed to Iran right now, and why it was entirely reasonable for the US to send genocide weapons to Israel throughout the incineration of the Gaza Strip. It smells like bullshit because that’s what it is.

 R_P wrote:
That link has a paywall for me - I went to this page.

Stephen M. Walt: The United States Has Become a Rogue State

(From our series) "Not The Onion"

At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning
With “Operation Total Extermination” and Trump’s threats against Cuba, expect more U.S. military strikes in the region.

He says that crisis marked the end of the British empire, and Trump's "ill-advised" war could similarly mark the end of U.S. hegemony.

American crusade: Domination is the only language for Trump's team | Soumaya Ghannoushi