the most worrying thought is that putin may have been the puppetmaster all along. using information to manipulate democracy and undermine the conversation.
a bunch of people have noticed that one of the common themes of trump's positions is the advantages they give to russia. could be paranoia. but it is striking. this article appears in a popular conservative uk newspaper by a well-respected journalist.
"This is not the fevered or paranoid speculation of a Hollywood scriptwriter trying to imagine a sequel to the classic thriller The Manchurian Candidate (in which Soviet brainwashing is used to turn an American into a zombie-like assassin); none other than former CIA boss Michael Morell said that he had ‘no doubt’ Putin viewed Trump as an ‘unwitting agent’.
Trump’s tax returns could dispel suspicions that he is in hock to Kremlin-friendly gangsters and money-launderers but, in a scandalous breach of normal political practice, he refuses to publish them.
His flimsy, widely ridiculed excuse is that they are still being audited....
In short, Trump’s approach to the West, weakening the resolve of Nato allies, chimes exactly with Putin’s plan for destroying it.
A pro-Kremlin blogger put it like this: ‘Trump will smash America as we know it.’
Putin does not need to give Trump directions: his ‘useful idiocy’, in Lenin’s classic phrase, is enough.
What the Russian leader wants to do is to help him — notably by undermining Mrs Clinton, the only person who can keep Trump out of the White House.
Both men share a similarly nihilistic worldview. Only power matters; values count for nothing.
The difference is that Putin is a highly-skilled KGB officer, schooled in the arts of deception and recruitment.
Trump, by comparison, is the pampered child of wealthy family, who has escaped numerous well-deserved comeuppances through bluff and bombast.
If the two men ever do meet as world leaders, make no mistake: it is Vladimir Putin who will be calling the shots."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3738302/Is-Trump-Russian-agent-Kremlinologist-presents-tantalising-disturbing-dossier-presidential-hopeful-closer-links-Kremlin-appear.html#ixzz4HEAOv6KO
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