Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/20/putin-expresses-doubt-in-trump.html
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2020, when a Russian spymaster expresses his displeasure with the performance of one of his assets in the mass media.
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Putin plays his own distraction games. I rather suspect we will (eventually) see some pretty horrible C19 statistics out of Russia.
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Putin becomes concerned that he may have been overly successful.
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Putin is questioning honor among thieves.
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I always thought of Trump as Nero but he was the fiddle all along.
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Russian strategy for years has been to make America seem unstable and unreliable to other nations, so as to undermine faith in alliances and America’s leadership. So Putin’s comment here is literally the laziest, cheapest, and most direct Russian propaganda could be.
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Trump doubles-down on violent suppression of protests in 3…2…1…
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You can always trust a former KGB spy-- you can trust everything he does is a chess move of some kind.
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When they go low; Putin swings the axe.
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So much for prosecutorial hopes in SDNY:
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But still spot on.
I’m not so sure. Removing Berman will likely take months, well past November. In the meantime, he seems determined to proceed with prosecutions.
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This, a million times. A second term for Trump may or may not be useful for Russian interests. I will not be surprised to hear that Russia is meddling in the 2020 election to support Democrats, because it will completely undermine both parties. Republicans can’t investigate too much or complain too loudly, because of course their guy was supported in 2016. Not that they won’t complain or investigate, but it will involve even more contortions than usual.
If Biden wins, there will always be questions as to the legitimacy of his presidency. Democrats will be hard-pressed to say that the election wasn’t fair, that Biden didn’t legitimately win and shouldn’t be president, because Jesus effing Christ, that means Trump gets another four years.
It’s not like Biden is a particularly strong candidate, anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia had a side-campaign to support his nomination, because he won’t be the hardliner that, say, Hillary would have been.
It’s all about causing chaos, weakening America, continuing and strengthening the culture war so we’re fighting each other, and diminishing our standing on the world scene. We’ve seen and done this exact thing to other countries, none of this should be a surprise.
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Anybody disagree with that?
But, of course, everything wrong with America is Putin’s fault. 
Said no-one, ever on this site. But feel free to keep arguing with straw men here.
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They’ve already got it bad. It’s currently at over half a million cases over there, and increasing at 8k a day according to the official figures:
All according to plan:
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