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It strikes me as an academic question whether Trump is or isn't formally a Russian asset. The important thing is that he ACTS as though he is. And, as Trump's actions increasingly benefit America's long term foe, you've got to ask when the country will wake up and defend what's left from the recently installed enemy within. Right now Putin is winning the eighty year conflict.
@christineburns I would say from around 1990 (plus or minus 1 year) until 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and was kicked out of G8, they were not foes.
@christineburns And I was hoping for the US and Russia to get along - but not like this. I was imagining them as both being non-dictatorships with free speech and human rights at the time.
⧖ @christineburns@mastodon.green@GreenSkyOverMe There was certainly a lot of hope around after 1990.
@christineburns @GreenSkyOverMe people hoped. Western corps and govs went in to extract resources for cheap instead of helping a democracy flourish. Gehry's titanium Guggenheim facades were possible thanks to an oligarch taking control of titanium mines (from workers it belonged to) and flushing markets with a lot of titanium to make some quick money. That in turn disgusted Russian people and they turned to a strongman, an ex-kgb who stepped in at the perfect time, ordered his intelligence service to bomb random apartments in Moscow to manipulate public sentiment. Once he won he didn't care if it came out. Without acknowledging responsibility nothing will change.