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St. Luigi Scrosoppi said:
There has been a lot of speculation regarding what is behind Putin's hold on Trump. This seems to fit the bill nicely and shows that if you look on the internet you will eventually find the "facts" to fit any speculation:

A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov”.

The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev, a former Kazakh intelligence chief, in a Facebook post. The 71-year-old, who previously headed Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, said he had served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, which was responsible for counter-intelligence support within the economy.

One of the directorate’s primary objectives, he claimed, was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.” According to Mussayev, Trump, then a 40-year-old New York real estate developer, was one of those recruits. "In 1987, our directorate recruited Donald Trump under the pseudonym Krasnov,” he wrote.

Mussayev’s post did not include evidence to support his claim, but in a further comment he made another shocking allegation. “Today, the personal file of resident ‘Krasnov’ has been removed from the FSB. It is being privately managed by one of Putin’s close associates,” he alleged. His allegations come amid years of speculation over Trump’s ties to Russia, dating back to his first visit to Moscow in 1987.

At the time, Trump, then a rising star in the New York property market, travelled to the Soviet Union to explore the possibility of building a hotel in the capital. Soviet officials reportedly facilitated the trip, raising questions among intelligence analysts about whether it was a routine business opportunity or something more scandalous.

Several years ago a report highlighted how, in 1985, the KGB had updated a secret personality questionnaire distributed among its officers, detailing how to identify and recruit Western figures. The document, according to intelligence sources, instructed agents to target “prominent figures in the West” with the aim of “drawing them into some form of collaboration with us… as an agent, or confidential or special or unofficial contact.”

Mussayev’s claim appears to suggest that Trump may have been one such target. Despite years of scrutiny, Trump has vehemently denied having any improper ties to Russia or colluding with President Vladimir Putin.

However, some US officials have repeatedly raised concerns about his close relationship with the Kremlin leader, particularly during his first term in office. Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017, added to the intrigue during a recent episode of The Rest Is Politics: US podcast.

He suggested that Trump’s deference to Putin has puzzled many of his former senior officials. “I think there is a mysterious ‘hold’ on the president,” he said. Scaramucci did not elaborate on what that ‘hold’ might be but suggested that several former Trump administration officials, including H.R. McMaster, James Mattis, and John Kelly— had also struggled to understand Trump’s affinity for Putin. “I don’t know why it’s like this,” he said. “McMaster couldn’t figure it out, Mattis couldn’t figure it out, Kelly couldn’t figure it out.”
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I'm going to do 'an Os' now.

Your post suits my viewpoints so I am going to take it as fact now and tell you all

See, I was right.
 
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Osvaldorama said:
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1892712077761904658?s=46

Excellent response from the White House to those accusing Trump of being a ‘dictator’ and complaining about Elon’s new role.

It’s funny how the same media were silent about Soros and his influence on the mentally unfit Biden. But shout from the rooftops about Elon musk
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Elon Musk is shouting from the rooftops about Elon Musk.

I don’t think he’s wrong in what he’s saying here, to give it context. That doesn’t mean I also think Musk is a good guy etc.
 
San Tejón said:
The hoopoe. I have occasionally seen them in the area of Spain where I live, normally a brief glimpse as they fly across the road or disappear into the distance when I am out walking.
I posted on here a few years back about seeing a hoopoe in the communal garden of an apartment block I was living in, off of Hill Lane. I was able to watch it picking through the grass for 5 minutes or so and remember, at the time, that someone on here had said that they had been looking for one for years.
Was that you? :emoticon-0100-smile
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I saw a great many when holidaying in the Landes region of France which is heavily wooded and renowned for its papermaking industry.
 
Osvaldorama said:
I am as serious as the others. Anyone can clip or freeze images to make someone look like they’re doing a Nazi salute. The whole thing is preposterous
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very true, but that isn’t what the Steve Bannon clip is doing is it. It’s comparing a babybel to a TV. A freeze frame of a totally different gesture isn’t like the actual gesture.
 
Rubio is making me laugh. He just said Zelensky is pissing everyone off and that he even pissed Biden off. Well, Biden was a professional and didn’t let that ruin his relationship. He probably understood that it is a war leader’s job to keep his country at the top of the agenda. Trump understands nothing.

And Trump’s entire approach is to piss people off. These ****ing hypocrites need to just disappear.
 
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There is a video doing the rounds which I at first took to be some kind of crazy conspiracy theory, but it is very well put together and supported with all the key players voicing the ideas in the video.

I am normally extremely sceptical of anything like this, but maybe people should take a look. Essentially it outlines the crypto bro / billionaire tech interest in Trump and what it is they want.

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“Rightwingers in Britain are beguiled by the potential of religious rhetoric after its use by Trump and Vance in the US”

They're rediscovering the power of dazzling people with heaven and damning them with hell
 
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There is a video doing the rounds which I at first took to be some kind of crazy conspiracy theory, but it is very well put together and supported with all the key players voicing the ideas in the video.

I am normally extremely sceptical of anything like this, but maybe people should take a look. Essentially it outlines the crypto bro / billionaire tech interest in Trump and what it is they want.

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You are really far into a pit of far left propaganda at this point.

Try and be less emotional and more rational
 
Osvaldorama said:
You are really far into a pit of far left propaganda at this point.

Try and be less emotional and more rational
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Your beloved Trump and Musk are extorting Ukraine for its mineral wealth - and have now threatened to turn off starlink if they are not given what they want.

Do you have the self-respect to admit that these two scumbags are evil pieces of ****?

And the weird thing about that video is everyone who speaks on it about the Accelerationism project was sitting in the front row of Trump’s inauguration. That is what makes me interested it may be true - as these people are on record saying this is what they want.

But I doubt you watched it as your world view is too fragile.
 
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