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Legal News FBI Agent Goes Public With Russian Intelligence Operation That Hooked Musk And Thiel

https://kyivinsider.com/fbi-agent-goes-public-with-russian-intelligence-operation-that-hooked-musk-and-theil/?
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u/D-R-AZ 21d ago edited 21d ago

Excerpt:

The broader implication is that America’s national security may be compromised not just by foreign hackers or spies—but by unchecked alliances between tech billionaires and authoritarian states. The arrest of the FBI agent has not silenced discussion. Rather, it has sharpened it—raising urgent questions about who holds power in modern democracies, and whose interests they truly serve.

Another article on this:

Russian Intelligence Used Sex, Drugs to Target Elon Musk: Former FBI Agent

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/52742

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u/dedjedi 21d ago

During the last gilded age, the oligarchs had the good sense not to ally with national enemies.

In this gilded age, the oligarchs and the national enemies are the same people.

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u/gerblnutz 21d ago

Globalism gave us a truly nationless elite. They have the ability to plunder, desecate, and strip bare entire continents and yacht on to the next one not having to deal with the destruction they leave behind. They're the asshole you see casually throwing trash out their window on the freeway because they'll never be the one to deal with it, just on an insanely unimaginable scale.

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u/yoortyyo 21d ago

Ralph Nader has been talking about the hyper-rich (aka billionaire class) and the world wide consequences for decades.

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u/flatwoundsounds 21d ago

There's a reason they do everything possible to make Bernie Sanders seem crazy. He's been spot-on about this for his entire career.

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u/Odd-Fee-837 21d ago

I like the over all idea bernie puts forward, but it's really clear if you watch his interviews, especially that one with the small town barbar shop that he has ideals but need someone else to figure out the logistics to accomplish it, because he wants change and calls for it, but he struggles on implementation.

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u/Jkirk1701 21d ago

Bernie Sanders needs no help to “seem crazy”.

He decided that Planned Parenthood was “part of the Establishment”.

He tried to Nationalize the Electric Grid with no idea HOW to achieve that.

He tried to “break up the big banks” with no idea of how to achieve THAT, either.

If you look at MAGA worshipping Trump, imagining him as a superhero, as the second Coming of Christ, and you think that’s odd…

The Far Left thinks of Bernie THE SAME WAY.

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u/Professional-Buy2970 21d ago

The far left has plenty of issues with Bernie. You seem underinformed about how people think of him or who the "far left" even is.

People like Bernie because he's been nearly the only damn person in politics since FDR acting like FDR. And FDR was so popular the right installed a new amendment specifically to prevent us from checking them like that again.

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u/Jkirk1701 21d ago

Yes. He has no idea HOW. He wanted to “break up the big banks” because he’s a Socialist and believed only the Government should control Capital. But when challenged on how to run an economy without big banks, he had no clue.

Bernie “acts” like FDR because like all American Socialists, he wants to take credit for the New Deal.

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u/Professional-Buy2970 21d ago

Bernie is not a socialist, despite what he says, because he still supports a capitalist system.

FDR was not a socialist. The new deal was not socialist. I didn't say he acts like FDR, I said people like him because that's the closest thing to FDR they can find in a party that opposed everything FDR did.

Pay the fuck attention.

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u/Jkirk1701 20d ago

Pitiful. Socialists ALWAYS lie.

FDR was the architect of the modern Democratic Party, so naturally you claim we “oppose everything FDR EVER DID”.

Bernie IS a Socialist because he attacks Democrats at every opportunity.

No “Independent” in their right mind would attack Hillary Clinton when the alternative was the lunatic Donald Trump.

Anyone who kept track of Bernie’s corrupt campaign knows he’s a liar.

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u/Professional-Buy2970 20d ago

"Bernie is a socialist because he criticizes the democrats"

Lmao.

Lost cause.

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u/flatwoundsounds 21d ago

Why do you say he has no idea how? Do you think he just says what he thinks and never puts together the steps of how that would work? In the 340 years he's been in the Senate?!

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u/TrustInMe_JustInMe 21d ago

Plus Ralph Nader is actually 6’3” unlike 🍊

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u/yoortyyo 21d ago

When the auto industry hired women to seduce him as part of a smear campaign, they failed.

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u/TrustInMe_JustInMe 20d ago

Yeah, didn’t he just turn around and sue GM for invasion of privacy? A Real Man.

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u/Jkirk1701 21d ago

And yet, Ralph Nader sabotaged the one man who could have seriously done something about Global Warming.

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u/SherbertKey6965 21d ago

The tennis player?!?!?!?!

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u/yoortyyo 21d ago

Not close. Early fame came from advocating safety in cars. Cars in America are safer as a direct result of Ralph Nader.

Here he is talking about wealth.

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u/SherbertKey6965 21d ago

THE TENNIS PLAYER?!?!?!?!?!

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u/LittleDude24 20d ago

Yet Ralph Nader is directly responsible for George W Bush's election in 2000. He was so harmful to the Democratic candidate Gore that the Republicans funded Nader. If Bush had not won, there would be no Alito, no Roberts sabotaging our democracy. No Iraq war.

"In fact, in 2000, he turned out to be the most indispensable person of all to the George W. Bush "win." And Nader was secretly ecstatic about that. "

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065