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Dave Troy Profile picture
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Nov 11, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
🚨 We have an emergency in progress at DoD and in IC. The plan is apparently to replace Haspel, Wray, Nakasone and do a coordinated dump of classified intel that causes chaos and damages US interests. ECW is now acting undersecretary of intel at DoD; part of Q operation.
This is ECW, part of Q operation, which is morphing to center on “E.” Image
Here is a sample of the “devastating” changes afoot. If we succeed in disrupting this, exposing this may seem like overreaction. If we do nothing, we may be unable to recover.

politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
I strongly urge people in a position to intervene to do so now, especially reporters and intel professionals. DM me for additional info. Not a drill.
Here is the assessment of someone who knows what he is talking about.
More good info and details in this thread.
Awareness is growing.

edition.cnn.com/2020/11/11/pol…
Put bluntly this is a potential capture of the USIC by FSB/GRU. Set your expectations accordingly. Senate Republicans must not let this plan go forward.

Yes, I know it's insane. But this is what they think they are doing. We must respond accordingly.

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Jan 5
I regret to inform that this is all very simple, and dumb: since 2017, Putin has been trying to goad Trump into seizing Venezuela and Greenland. Putin thinks this will cement the “Monroe Doctrine” as US policy, which he thinks will drive US disengagement from Ukraine.

This effort failed in 2019 because it was blocked by John Bolton, Fiona Hill, Rex Tillerson, and other cabinet officials who considered these proposals but found them unwise.

Putin’s efforts to goad Trump resumed in 2025, first with renewed interest in Greenland, second with Venezuela. The Venezuela dangle worked, and there were no adults to stop it, and plenty of profiteers eager to help.

Now he’s after Cuba and Greenland, which Putin thinks (again) will catalyze US disengagement in Ukraine, which he hopes will give him a freer hand there, as well as reorient US power in the Western Hemisphere and away from Europe.

That’s it. That’s what’s going on. Oil, minerals, peace prizes are all part of the dangle. But this is the whole ballgame.
Receipts, part 1.
Receipts, part 2.
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Jan 5
🚨 Important context here: not only did Russia try to goad Trump into moving on Venezuela in 2019 to force US disengagement in Ukraine, Russia also drove the idea of the “US buying Greenland” by forging a letter to US Senator Tom Cotton, who brought the idea to Trump.
More smoking guns. Ron Lauder also pushed the idea in 2017.

“The national security adviser at the time, John Bolton, told his aide Fiona Hill to put together a team to look at possible ideas.”

The same team who considered and blocked Russia’s Venezuela proposal also considered and blocked the Greenland deal.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
And of course this did not end well for John Bolton. Patel’s FBI raided his home in September and he has been indicted on 18 counts by a Federal grand jury for “mishandling” information included in his 2020 book that sheds light on these incidents.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…
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Jan 4
Been pulling together details on this all day for a more detailed story and... a retrospective review shows the full arc.

Not only did Putin float this deal in May 2019, he backstopped it by deploying nuclear bombers to Venezuela in December 2018 and then sending hundreds of troops to gin up the threat and provoke Trump into taking action.

Per John Bolton's memoir, Putin even compared Juan Guaidó to Hillary Clinton in a phone call, thinking that would push him over the edge — a move Bolton described as a masterstroke of psychological manipulation.

More on this soon, but there is more than enough documentation to suggest that not only was this the Kremlin's design, but that the current operation is a continuation of a strategy well underway in 2019.
To help increase the value of a Venezuela-Ukraine swap, Putin sent two Tu-160 long-range strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons to Caracas in December 2018. This was meant to piss Trump off and prompt a deal.
bbc.com/news/world-lat…
When the nuclear bombers weren't enough, Putin sent troop carrier planes and military equipment to further provoke him in March 2019. Again, the logic was to prompt him to accept the Kremlin's offer of control of Venezuela in exchange for exiting Ukraine.
vox.com/2019/3/27/1828…
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Jan 4
1/Folks really need to understand that Russia and China are completely inseparable at this point, and that they have thrown their lot into the shared project of countering the West through containment of US interests via the Monroe Doctrine.
2/The idea of some kind of US-Russia alliance to counter China is beyond idiotic and a lingering fantasy of a handful of analysts.

The grand vision is one of three strong powers, each controlling its own geography, and backing regional strongmen oligarchs to ensure “peace.”
3/Democracy isn’t a priority at all; indeed it is quite obviously an afterthought, and window dressing.

“Stability (“peace”) comes first, trade comes second (prioritizing regional trade), and governance comes last. Welcome to the era of pragmatic authoritarianism.
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Jan 3
In 2019, Fiona Hill testified that the Russian government was “signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela and Ukraine.” (Search: Venezuela) i.e. we get Venezuela, they get Ukraine.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6543…
“As the US was so concerned about the Monroe Doctrine and its own backyard, perhaps the US might also be concerned about developments in Russia’s backyard, as in Ukraine, making it very obvious that they were trying to set ip some kind of let’s just say: You stay out of Ukraine or you move out of Ukraine, and, you know, we’ll rethink where we are with Venezuela.” - Fiona Hill to Congress, October 14, 2019

If this was operational intel then, you can damn well bet this is a part of Kremlin-Trump policy now. The idea this is some new sui generis Trump adventurism is unsupported by evidence.
If this is the basis of this action (and similar comments by Zhirinovsky validate Hill’s testimony) then this is transactional Trump deal-making, first and foremost. No real risk taken, he gets what he wants, Vlad gets what he wants, and his image is burnished. Boom: peacemaker.
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Nov 23, 2025
1/Vladimir Kryuchkov was literally Putin’s boss, and he recruited Donald Trump, Robert Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein. His goal was to export Communist Party funds to Western banks. Why? Because the USSR was crumbling and they had no private banks in Russia.
2/Mikhail Gorbachev served a purpose here: open up channels to the West and make Russia approachable. ‘Glasnost’ and ‘Perestroika’ lured gullible Americans to Genrikh Borovik, Kryuchkov’s brother in law, a KGB agent who ran the Soviet Peace Committee.
3/It was through these channels that Kryuchkov would attempt to establish beachheads of influence in the West, channeling funds towards Russia friendly projects. Putin, Kryuchkov’s junior lieutenant, would be the ultimate beneficiary of these investments.
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