"Political warfare to invade another country by hijacking elections began with Lenin and Stalin. The US did it to counter the USSR. Then things take an ugly, vicious turn when the US became what it was trying to fight." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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"Stalin's forces executed extraordinarily ambitious election interference operations in post-WWII eastern Europe that foreshadowed what Putin is doing today." -- @davidashimer on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/41951840
"The sovereignty of the US was severely threatened in 2016, yet the intel community remained quiet. Yes there is protocol, but this is a case where if you blindly follow protocol without considering the repercussions, you doom this country to its demise."
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"In 2016, people in the government were trying to wrap their heads around an unexpected threat. They all claim no one saw this coming and that no one thought Russia could attack us at this scale." -- @davidashimer on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/41951840
"People who knew Ukraine were *not* caught off guard in 2016. We all knew the history. We knew Manafort was Putin's Darth Vader. And that's what made it so shocking that the Obama admin could be caught off guard." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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