The Kremlin will not easily give up on its opportunity to install a puppet US president. And everybody realizes that a massive act of terror conducted by some convenient Muslims in some iconic American place sometime in October might propel Trump to a win.
So let’s stop obsessing about yet another meaningless thing Trump said today and start hoping that no convenient Chechens will be found to make this happen.
Yes, all we need is a terrorist attempt, and debacle…
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I doubt such a scenerio would use Chechens. The number of Chechens in the US is very small. Unlike France the US admitted almost no Chechen refugees during the two wars waged against them by Russia after the USSR fell apart. The Tsarnaevs were unusual in getting admittance to the US and were not refugees. They came from Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan.
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I agree that it won’t be hard to find a few useful, non-Chechen idiots. :-(((
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For the purpose of promoting pro-Russian agenda, these hypothetical terrorists should not be Chechens, they should not have any traceable links to Russia. They should appear to be from one of those “moderate” groups Russia is currently bombing in Syria. Then Russia gets an added benefit of saying “we told ya”…
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Yes, that’s quite possible. But it’s not like anybody would balk at Chechens. Look how nobody even mentions that half of the terrorists in France had Russian passports.
Americans are so hung up on needing to believe their own power and mastery, they will never accept that they are being manipulated.
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No analogy is perfect, certainly not one that bestrides different national cultures and domestic ideological warfare versus national defense. But when the Russian military is funding vast apparatuses of alt-right Internet trolls, setting off rumors of refinery explosions on the US Gulf Coast or inveigling itself into the sectarian battles between establishment Democrats and dissident left wing groups, I believe we see some fundamental similarities. You have a threatened group (be it an ideological minority or a failing state) which stands up a counter to something that is in some ways genuinely threatens it. But because it doesn’t really understand the forces, institutions, change arrayed against the counter isn’t so much a mirror image as a sort of clownish caricature of it.
More on this and Russia’s expanding ‘media’ empire in the West in my next post.
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