I've said this before, but the idea that Russia is pursuing a decades-long master plan to destabilize and corrupt the United States from within is the most Russian bit of thinking in American political culture. Almost like it's... a Russian mind virus of some kind! Bozhe moi!
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The preoccupation with Russian influence operations (which all evidence suggests do exist!) is just another symptom of people searching for structure and meaning in a really stupid time. The influence operations are likely as bungled as anything else in 2020
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All of the deep thinkers that national security types like to quote are the Russian/Soviet equivalents of Newt Gingrich—intellectualizing blowhards and pocket Napoleons. But their foreignness exoticizes them and our domestic paranoia does the rest. Suddenly they're masterminds
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Russian agents, sneaking into Washington and altering the clocks in the State Department.
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