"What Putin wants isn’t a gain of territory or anything like that. He just wants us gone. He wants us so weak and so fighting with each other and so, you know, fatally wounded that we don’t bother their ambitions anymore. He wants us sick. He wants us broke. He wants us stupid."

~ Greg Olear

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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-putins-rasputin-and-trumps

"He wants us fighting with each other. He wants us firing guns at each other. And he wants us isolated from the rest of the world and the rest of our allies. That’s what he wants. He’s said as much."

Olear thinks it's no accident that "everything [Musk-Trump are] doing is designed to make us weaker." Musk and Trump are colluding with Putin to accomplish this, he maintains.

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"Since returning to office, Donald Trump has swiftly reoriented US foreign policy around Russia’s best interests. …

Whenever Trump talks about Putin or Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, he does so in much warmer terms than he does with respect to democratic leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron or Canada’s Justin Trudeau. It’s not a performance."

~ Stephen Robinson

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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-vance-munich-orwellian-free-speech

"He feels a genuine rapport with autocrats, dictators, and outright thugs. There’s no such connection with our European allies, who[m] he openly antagonizes."

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