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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy I don't give a crap about DNC emails: How Putin could invade the Baltic States in 6 easy steps!
1. The Brexit vote inspires other angry white nationalists to rise to power in other European countries. Let's use Marine Le Pen in France as an example. The EU is now critically fractured.
2. Trump wins in the US, weakening NATO.
3. Putin, ruling Russia through fear but facing economic hardship as he already is and needing a distraction from his own disastrous policies, funds extreme right anti-EU government factions in, for example, Latvia, which starts a civil war and allows Putin to send in "aid trucks" and "peacekeeping forces".
4. The rest of Europe is in a f*cking mess after the rise of far-right forces in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia etc who are now (in this scenario) pro-Russia since the EU is doing no significant pushback. So the EU ignores calls for sanctions or intervention.
5. NATO is slow to respond/makes no response because Trump doesn't want to be involved. Russia, with a free board in front of it (you've played Risk as a kid, right?) goes further into Latvia and then into Estonia and Lithuania.
6. The Baltic States declare war on Russia. I don't think I need to enumerate what happens next. Archduke Ferdinand was metaphorically shot way up in step 1. Half of Europe is for Russia, half against. But now we've got nukes on the board, something that wasn't an option for the European powers in 1939.
TA DA!!!!
There is too much at stake in this election to allow ourselves to be fatally divided by a regrettable situation (DNC leaked emails) which has now been taken responsibility for and resolved. FORWARD!
(Much of this post cribbed from this Medium post by a historian, which really everyone should read)
(Posted as a reply to a thread in GD:16)
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It also cleans up the GD thread list nicely.
And so, farewell...
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Safer that way. We have to win in our minds first, and reality can be so messy.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)We know the issue here. I just don't find any of the profusion of threads about it elucidating. Especially when most of them are coming from dead-enders.
Give me a break!
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)It's all just BA. Wasserman should have stayed on.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)That blundering approach actually generates the reverse effect that we say we want. It generates the popular support that Putin's restoration of 'national greatness' depends on.
The only utility in this crap is to rationalize out-sized US spending on the MIC.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)He wants to be ELECTED president, but I'm sure he'd be happy to hand over the reins of power to old Vlad so he can go back to tweeting.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)he doesn't want to be prez, he want's to be ceo.
that's why the comment that pense will handle both domestic and foreign policy.
tRump doesn't want to answer to the American public. He just wants to rule