Over the last couple of days I’ve seen a few social media posts and online articles repeating a claim made by Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee. In the British tabloid The Mirror, Mussayev wrote: “In 1987, our directorate recruited Donald Trump under the pseudonym Krasnov.”
I don’t believe that. I simply don’t believe Comrade Donald Trump was recruited to be a Russian intelligence agent. Part of my objection is semantic; recruitment involves getting folks to enlist–which literally means to sign your name on a list. I don’t believe ANY intelligence services in ANY nation would consider enlisting Trump as an intelligence agent. He’s not qualified to be an agent. He simply doesn’t have the skills, the temperament, or intelligence to be an agent.
On the other hand, he’s an ideal intelligence asset. An asset is just a person (or a thing) that can be used to gather or disseminate information that might be useful to an intelligence service. An ideal human intelligence asset is somebody who is 1) easily manipulated through intimidation or flattery, 2) gullible and/or ignorant, 3) vulnerable to various forms of kompromat, 4) impulsive, 5) immoral or amoral, and 6) has access to useful information and/or can serve as a conduit for misinformation/disinformation. As an intelligence asset, Comrade Trump is a whole protein–he contains all the essential ingredients.
I totally believe Trump has been a Russian intelligence asset for decades. I absolutely believe Trump has knowingly served Russian geo-political interests. It’s indisputable that Russia engaged in coordinated disinformation campaigns to help get Trump elected, both in 2016 and in 2024. Back in 2021, The Guardian published a report stating the newspaper had possession of a Kremlin report of a 2016 meeting between Putin and his senior intelligence ministers outlining an intelligence operation to help Trump become POTUS. They felt electing Trump (who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”) would “definitely lead to the destabilisation of the US’s sociopolitical system.”
And hey, bingo. Look at us now. You know Vlad Putin is a happy boy.
Even before his 2016 election, Trump was promoting Russian interests. Remember, when candidate Trump’s team established the GOP party platform for the 2016 election, the ONLY change they made was to weaken support for Ukraine’s defense. The original GOP platform promised to “provide lethal defensive weapons to the Ukrainian government” in response to Russia’s invasion of Crimea and their ongoing attempt to militarily annex the Donbas region. Trump’s people had that strong anti-Russia language removed (at the insistence of Paul Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign manager at the time AND who, according to the Mueller Report, made at least US$75 million for supporting Russian interests in Ukraine).
Now that he’s been re-elected, Trump is more openly supporting Russia and Russian interests. He may not have actually been recruited as an agent back in the 1980s, but there’s little doubt that he has now enlisted in the service of Russia.
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I just saw a headline: “Elon Musk’s protege ‘Big Balls’ is grandson of executed KGB agent, report says”
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Even the headlines are ludicrous. And we almost certainly have at least four years of this monstrous, lunatic bullshit ahead of us.
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Did you hear about this executive order? I read the beginning (at the link), until I couldn’t bear any more:
Someone left this comment on fb (sorry) re: booing at hockey games:
“….I actually went to the Whitehouse site to find the constitution. I thought it would be there, however I could not find it, I must admit I’ve never visited the site before so I don’t know if that is the everyday normal, so I’m trying not to be alarmed that I could not find the constitution of the United States on the Whitehouse web page. I was disappointed to find it was not on the site.
I was disturbed to see that, the president has posted his goals and intentions yet the masses seem too eager to deny the ugly truth of those intentions posted and its destruction of the democratic system.
I wonder if that is because he is boldly saying, “yes, I plan to be an authoritative ruler, but that is what it takes to make the USA great again and that’s gonna help you (which I believe is a lie, while others are hopeful of a better brighter future)“, people are accepting what he says possibly because it looks as though he is doing what he said he would do, and instead of looking forward and seeing what is really happening they are simply refreshed to have someone being transparent even if transparency leads to the end of their freedom to choose their future leadership, the end of democracy.
Here is the executive order that if allowed to become active that will give DT authority over all government:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/…/ensuring-accountability…/?
The boos were for Trump, Musk, his cabinet, the Republican Party, MAGA and every American who isn’t actively protesting or resisting what amounts to the rise of Fascism in America.
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The US national anthem has been booed at international sports events before, but never with such passion and with such a valid reason. I mean, even Americans are booing. And understandably.
A LOT of very gullible people believed–or wanted to believe–Trump didn’t actually intend to do the awful shit he promised he was going to do. A LOT of people assumed that because what he promised was unthinkable and anti-American, he wouldn’t follow through. But of course he IS.
Trump is like a child who, in a temper tantrum, smears shit on the walls. And we have to live in it.
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It won’t let me reply or “like” so I guess one day I’ll have to create a WordPress account. (I think you know it’s me – your fb friend. I’m terrified even of saying things publicly in comments!) Saw a new article today from The Independent:
headline: Russian and Chinese spies are targeting US federal workers fired in DOGE purges, report says
“….The countries are targeting terminated employees with security clearances and probationary employees who could soon be terminated, “who may have valuable information about U.S. critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy,” the outlet reported.
At least two countries, which were not identified, have reportedly started setting up recruitment websites and are “aggressively targeting” these workers via LinkedIn….”
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Disgruntled employees are PRIME targets for any sort of espionage. But when you have a Russian asset in the White House, you don’t need to recruit too heavily.
Trump is openly pro-Putin. He was only slightly less open in his first term. Now he’s blatant about it.
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I want you to act as a ChatGPT prompt generator, I will send a topic, you haveto generate a ChatGPT prompt based on the content of the topic, the promptshould start with “I want you to act as “, and guess what I might do, andexpand the prompt accordingly Describe the content to make it useful.
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I want you to fuck off to the edge of the Earth, then fuck yourself right over the edge, and fuck yourself endlessly as you fall forever.
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