We should probably tell the whole story. Not to justify his actions, but he did the treason because the President told him to.

Read his first wife died two years ago and he married the woman he shredded documents with a year later. 🤦🏻‍♂️

https://youtu.be/lFV1uT-ihDo?is=aOZ36806T3C7gGN8

Just remember that all morality and decency is North of him.

someone likened texas is closer to russia, since oligarchs/abbot, practically controls the whole state

No. Conservatism can be that and can be skepticism to idealism in all forms.

The Russian example would be the popular belief of some people that presidential power should be made stronger in the 90s, and then of some other people that everything western is just better from the root and larping is enough, and then of another group of people that they can take modern (by year 2012) Russia's common idea of "respectable" and "cool" and make it compatible with honesty and justice and their own survival.

The American example would be - well, I think Fox News is good enough, what they started with was (of what I've read) the typical American idea of "alternative" and "anti-establishment", which is good in itself, just believing that there's a side offering that or that there's a way to move the world in that direction radically, - these are dangerous idiocies.

The "youthly liberal modern" idea of cool of 2010s in the social media, that I've recently remembered, is too a good example. When virtually all of the crowd was uncritically accepting that people at whom corporate policies point and say "they are homophobes, extremists and what's the worst of all - uncool", are really that.

One meaning of the word "conservatism" is being skeptical of such things. One can be conservative-left. It's just that people don't like nuance.

maga is literally grifters of americans united inc. they're all grifting as much as they can and trump is their literal face on the camera.

Many people were full into the idea of the USSR, and still are angry that it dissolved. They see Russia as a legitimate successor and lick up their narrative.

And then there are people who don't like Russia or war, but who are also skeptical about their own leadership in the US and NATO states. Both siders.

The Russian narrative has a good chance with these as well.

And then there's young people who have not experienced much history themselves and are in need of orientation.

Yes, but surgical strikes that leave the population alive are more effective.

Bomb the people into submission was a plan cooked up after the first world war, and was pretty stupid then as well.

The firebombing of Germany, Japan, the UK, etc. didn't make the population less willing to fight, quite the opposite, but the defeat of a countries military, did in fact make the populations surrender.

Populations will put up with a lot when under constant attack, when their loved ones are dying in the street, but when they're merely inconvenienced, and then their team loses, well, that breaks moral.

Also, decapitation works wonders, take out the leaders who are pushing for more war, and suddenly there's no push for more war.

st petersberg to.

Adding to this. Step back a moment and notice that this is, in part, the same playbook being used everywhere else: California vs Florida, Red vs Blue; US vs Ukraine vs Russia.

These are distractions. We need to eat the rich. They are the problem and we outnumber them.

Sometimes it's helpful to hold up a mirror.

(Not to suggest Russia or China can't also be baddies)

One big difference is that China attacks (what they consider to be) their own people.

While i think both of those people are worse than trump, trump affects more people than both of them combined.

The evil triumvirate.

To be fair, Poland's hatred of Putin actually counts for double in the ranking for some reason.

I imagine a lot of Americans

Definitely

also Western Europeans

Certainly not