In a way, Schröder's and Merkel's actions of integrating with Russia after 2012 and 2014 were against the interests of the EU and NATO, but the German electorate and media didn't notice this at all or very quietly at the time.

An example for this is the German funding of the NordStream pipeline in the Baltic Sea, which, only once the 2022 invasion began, became a stranded asset and not way earlier. Crazy, from our POV, that this project got approved, despite US-American warnings. Well, it got blown up anyways, but that it got approved and funded on the background of Russian imperialism and climate change beforehand is bonkers.

Welp. It's 4am and that was a pretty good watch. Sounds like Occam's Razor.

So are we going with extremely convenient idiots from the Right stalling an American budget to effectively give Russia the largest gains since shortly after the war started, while tanking a fragile economy into a recession for political gain with absent minded Americans failing to connect those dots? Or are we going with direct Russian funding of politicians that lack any campaign finance transparency and are willing to rally behind a traitor felon as having some kind of ethics?

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God that was the most Fox and corporate clown media I've seen in a decade. That is some remarkable subhuman filth. The existence of Fox is a crime against humanity, but the rest is not better.

Related - Solid zine on tankie infiltration of leftist spaces:

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