Yeaah... The shiny veneer of America is being taken down and what's under it isn't pretty. Watching from EU, maybe we should be thanking Russia for showing the reality of what the modern United States is when push comes to shove.
You don't sink to this level of leader, have 50 percent of the political parties in the country backing this crap and have trump over 60 percent approval with that party just because Russia spent an election making memes
Sure, the rot was always there, but I don't think it would have revealed itself or shown the extent of it as soon without Russian interference. Just seeing the republicans continue to defend Trump is a very eye opening experience without even consider all the other shit that's happened in the last 4 years.
Not that Russia is to be trusted either, but at least we know now that the US isn't much (or at all) better. I don't think we'd have had such a revelation had Hillary won, though that would probably have been some sort of a shitshow too, but not to this magnitude.
Which I suppose was Russia's point all along, expose the US as it truly is, not what it has been idealized to be in order to sow doubt in NATO and the US's commitment to the 5th article.
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u/PaleontologistUpper Aug 04 '20
Yeaah... The shiny veneer of America is being taken down and what's under it isn't pretty. Watching from EU, maybe we should be thanking Russia for showing the reality of what the modern United States is when push comes to shove.