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Russia realized it couldn't win a kinetic war with the West and NATO. So it switched to information operations and financial operations. They're simply buying off Western leaders and organizations. This is what 21st century warfare looks like and they're absolutely owning us.
China and Saudi Arabia do this as well. And we'll see them do it more.
Geopolitical experts and historians may correct me, but I feel like in the past, adversaries bought off spies. They paid turncoats for information. Now it's different. Now they pay you to simply stay in your position and advocate for general policies that work in their favor.
1989: We'll pay you $500,000 for the plans to the nuclear submarine
2019: We'll have our friends donate thousands of dollars to your re-election campaign if you simply say the annexation of Crimea isn't that big a deal and you're ok with it
2019: We'll have our friends donate thousands of dollars to your re-election campaign if you simply say the annexation of Crimea isn't that big a deal and you're ok with it
