It took a hundred years but the Russians ,,,,,

[Cryptoad]

finally figured out to destroy us,,,,,,,,they finally figured out how Greedy we really are that all u have to do is BUY us!

[DavidDvorkin]

1. They figured it out long ago

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

-- Lenin

[malaise]

2. They also learned how to interfere in others elections

No one did that better than the Brits and the US.

[FarCenter]

5. The Brits and the US have the longest history of crooked elections and dirty campaign tricks

The Russians have nothing on Tammany Hall.

[HughBeaumont]

3. From Captain America: Civil War -

"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumbles from within? That's dead. Forever." - Helmut Zemo

[Cryptoad]

4. We are being destroyed from within,,,,,,,,,,

[dalton99a]

6. How the Media Became One of Putin's Most Powerful Weapons

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/how-the-media-became-putins-most-powerful-weapon/391062/
How the Media Became One of Putin’s Most Powerful Weapons
After decades of wielding Soviet-style hard power, Russia is developing a subtler form of influence.
Jill Dougherty | Apr 21, 2015

As a former KGB officer and head of the KGB’s successor agency, the FSB, Putin knows the value of information. His concept of the media, however, is a far cry from the First Amendment. For him, it’s a simple transactional equation: Whoever owns the media controls what it says.

“There should be patriotically minded people at the head of state information resources,” Putin told reporters at his 2013 annual news conference, “people who uphold the interests of the Russian Federation. These are state resources. That is the way it is going to be.”

From his first days as president, Putin moved quickly to dominate the media landscape in Russia, putting not only state media but privately owned broadcast media under the Kremlin’s influence.

“The limitations on the media have existed for the 15 years that Vladimir Vladimirovich has been in power,” Alexey Venediktov, editor in chief of Echo of Moscow, Russia’s only remaining independent radio station, told me during a December visit to the Russian capital. The war in Ukraine, he added, has solidified Putin’s view of the media: “It’s not an institution of civil society, it’s propaganda. [The Russian broadcasters] First Channel, Second Channel, NTV, Russia Today internationally—these are all instruments for reaching a goal inside the country, and abroad.”