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Rosalind ๐Ÿ's avatar

I am constantly conflicted between incompetent actions or deliberate errors. The tsunami of disasters seem more likely to be intended and deliberate. 2025 cadre want America broken, Trump, I think, hates America for everytime he is laughed at, Putin hates America because people give it all the credit as the greatest country and was funding Ukraine.

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Sarah malnar's avatar

A former Soviet intelligence officer made a claim that gave rise to speculation across borders. The officer alleged that the current US President, Donald Trump, was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and was given a codename named โ€œKrasnov.โ€ This โ€˜breaking the internetโ€™ statement came from Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstanโ€™s National Security Committee, who took to his Facebook account to disclose this astonishing information and talked about Donald Trumpโ€™s past ties to Soviet intelligence. Although, there has never been any concrete evidence, it certain raises eyebrows and explains a lot of behavior.

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Wendy The Druid ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ's avatar

The Krasnov thing is scary. But its hard to quantify that as QAnon like or not. There is only one source , @anthony7andrews on twitter. Id say its fluff, but Trump has russian connections that are hard to reconcile away also.

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WTH Is Going On?! Chris Berrie's avatar

Krasnov is not the first to make this claim.

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The World According to Velvet's avatar

In 2021 Craig Unger wrote a book that disclosed very similar information. If I remember correctly he also said that one of the letter agencies knew and used him as some sort of asset and that is why he has not been arrested.

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Tom Morrison's avatar

I don't know what to say. This is, to me, the MOST DISASTROUS move by these stupid MFs.

Lives will be lost because of this. Just as lives were lost in this FIRST regime of that man. By October of 2017, HUGE numbers of American assets abroad had been killed. Their incompetence knows no bounds.

We will not have ANY reliable agents serving our country for DECADES. Even if ideologically inclined, their lives & those of their families will be at risk.

But they don't care. That man doesn't care how many he kills. If he thinks about it at all, he'll use it as leverage to get more from his master in the Kremlin. After all, the appointment of a Russian "sympathizer" (read: agent) as DNI, ensured that REAL intelligence, actionable intelligence of use to the USA, would have to go to Moscow first.

Expect a rise in terrorist strikes (beyond those from the terrorist regime). Expect the complete destruction of US influence abroad -- even in the most insignificant economic matters. We have identified the USA as a Rogue State & will receive the same treatment worldwide as Kim Jung Un. Even the Ayatollahs will be better received than us.

Well, at least we didn't vote for a black woman...

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Betsy L's avatar

Wikipedia had this to say:

(When Dumpy first proposed him as DNI in his first term) Ratcliffe withdrew after Republican senators raised concerns about him, former intelligence officials said he might politicize intelligence, and media revealed Ratcliffe's embellishments regarding his prosecutorial experience in terrorism and immigration cases. Ratcliffe withdrew after Republican senators raised concerns about him, former intelligence officials said he might politicize intelligence, and media revealed Ratcliffe's embellishments regarding his prosecutorial experience in terrorism and immigration cases.

(This time around) Democratic senators including Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and Ron Wyden, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said that Ratcliffe's only qualification for the office appeared to be "blind loyalty" to Trump, noting that he has promoted some of Trump's conspiracy theories about the Russia investigation and has called for prosecution of Trump's political enemies.

I added this in because when I read Wendy's piece, I didn't even know who was running the CIA these days. I guess I know now how all this happened. Some pet idiot of Ratcliffe's, barely out of college (think "Big Balls"), thought he'd send the WH an email about people to fire.

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Marilyn runge's avatar

Is there a word for incompetent, unqualified, and intellectually challenged? MAGA.

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NPG BELL's avatar

Make Astounding Gaffes Again.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

โ€ฆAnd they thought bottom had been hit with George W. Decisioner.

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