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Brexit was the proof that Putin can influence first world countries via social media. That effort is now franchised to in every country. Plant panic and fear, sow division and erode the EU in a first step to dismantle it.

Step two was funding greens to reduce Nuclear and increase dependence on his energy products so he can fund his military and oligarchs. By spreading extreme left policies that seem unreasonable to normal people he opens the door to install his own populists at the helm of any country over time.

Step three is war to leave his permanent mark by re-expanding Russia and avoiding jail. God knows what else motivates him to do damage.

His apparatus works too well because social media is perfect for spreading fear. Humans evolved socially to protect themselves and the #1 thing they want to spread is things that others should be watching out for. Now the lions at the river are largely manufactured to keep the flock contained and obedient.


I love how your first paragraph is about Putin sowing division as a strategy, and then the second paragraph is… sowing division. [chef's kiss emoji]

Describing how he is doing is not the same as doing it. Being able to describe it comes from reading his propaganda spread in a number of small EU members who their native languages - different languages same song all over social media. Two of the countries that are neighbours had their own “strong man” populists both advertising to their constituents they will take a chunk of the other country’s territory. Posts had the same maps and all. Just swapping countries. His machine is literally copying itself and betting on people who don’t talk to neighbours or in another language.

The big question here is are they involved with Epstein because they are in power, or did they get power because they had Epstein pull in favors for them. From the emails he seems like the big spider in a spider web. Both parties and so many people in power referred to him for critical problems, pulling strings in critical places (Bannon on behalf of Trump was getting his advice on how to discredit Kavanaugh opponents and Epstein obliged with medical information on one of the opponents to bring up at a hearing). Beyond Clinton, Obama’s attorney is mentioned a bunch as well. I’m sure the democrats had plenty of favors in too.

My conclusion from information so far - this is a small subset of the files, and yet this seems like in a country where power should be divided to be balanced, a congealed network has been selecting and pulling the elites they want to the podium. The curation mechanism (may not be the only curation mechanism) has been people who are easy to manipulate by the network - too deep into perversions to ever come out of prison if they ever lost power. Thus more power and money becomes the only survival mechanism.

If you want a real constitutional democracy in the US, can you EVER have it if past presidents, or the networks underneath them, or party leaders who have no term limits, have control over who gets nominated to that power next? It’s not two parties. It’s one party that seems to be playing a show for the masses while taking Yin and Yang turns at the helm.


It is reassuring that I am not the only one that sees this. These emails reveal a much bigger conspiracy than just the sex trafficking- that was just an in house blackmail material generator for him that he was using to control powerful people around the world. The emails also suggest he was selling blackmail material on US politicians to foreign adversaries.

I mean that's the point -- blackmail powerful and influential people to do his bidding.

That his madam (Ghislane) was the daughter of the guy who got Israel nukes and had some deeeeep ties to the Mossad is no surprise. FWIW said guy also had ties to UK Intelligence and the KGB, and he died mysteriously on a boat in the middle of nowhere.


Remember when it used to be a conspiracy theory to say that the elites and politicians were all part of one big Eyes Wide Shut cult?

And now all their only remaining defense is "our masks don't even look like that."


So that’s why YC is orange :)


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