• Trump reportedly treats Putin like a 'confidant'
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http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-putin-confidant-nato-helsinki-summit-2018-7
That article headline... something about The Onion
An intelligent, scheming member of the espionage community takes total power in Russia. He then installs an insecure, mentally ailing man in the highest office in the US and courts his more stable family to support him. He follows this up by appearing to be a personal friend of said ailing man. Next thing you know, the President of the US will do anything that his best friend wants. Fucking hell. You gotta give it to Putin, he's an evil storybook villain of proportions not known in history.
Of course he does. He's the only person he thinks he can trust at this point.
Is this fucking happening
Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME
Fake news!
next thing you know, the KGB still exists and Putin has recruited Trump to work for them. Works every time.
...are you actually under the impression that the KGB ever stopped existing?
I'm skeptical. But it isn't too far-fetched.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service The FSB is just KGB the sequel.
Soviet Union "Falls" New leader is former KGB Agent New leader surrounds himself with former KGB agents New leader renames KGB to FSB and splinters it into several government organizations with equal authority. The KGB never disappeared, it changed forms, went underground for a bit, and then started to rule the country of Russia as a whole while using wealthy Oligarchs for funding. It's all in plain sight honestly, but nobody ever talks about the fact that Russia had a total coup by their intelligence services leading to them having total control of the Russian military. Imagine if the CIA was actually the government of America, and the whole 'congress' and 'presidency' and so on was just a guise to keep people bitching, divided, confused, and compliant. Would you just shrug and keep on keepin' on?
What if declaring a trade war on all of our allies was Putin's idea the whole time?
worse, imagine if congress and the courts were all in on it. wait that's exactly what the republicans want with their own secret society of lawyers at the federalists society and their absolute need for feaulty to the heads of each chamber and the president
The FSB isn't equivalent to the KGB though; it's more like the Russian equivalent of the FBI in that it's a domestic law enforcement/counterintelligence agency. The modern descendant of the KGB in terms of primary role (foreign espionage) is the SVR, and there's enough infighting between the SVR and FSB (not to mention the military-operated GRU, roughly equivalent to the American DIA) that the idea of the former KGB running Russia pretty much falls apart under scrutiny. Russian politics have always been dominated by cliques, with alliances between power blocs formed through corruption and back-alley deals. I think you're seeing an intelligence agency-driven coup when really it's just that Putin's clique is closely aligned to the intelligence agencies on account of his personal background.
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