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..and why propaganda puking trumputinist parrot puppets are promoting it. (of course we have known trumputinist shills right here on BTF)
The excuse one sometimes hears is that people don't trust the election process - the FAKE election fraud hoax perpetrated by Trump and adopted by his mindless minions, all doing Putin's bidding, undermining belief in democratic processes and therefore Democracy itself. Secession and division is what Putin wants in the US and throughout Europe in order to weaken partnerships, and through election engineering as we had here in 2016 to install puppet dicktaters like Trump who will further his cause.
By
June 23, 2015
With the old Confederate battle flag very much in the news as a result of the horrific racist shooting in Charleston, S.C. last week, politicians across party lines are rushing to consign the symbol of Southern secessionism to museums, rather than to state capitols in former Confederate states.
But support for the secessionist cause still remains strong in…the Kremlin.
In , reporter Casey Michel outlines the deeply strange connection between the , a group that advocates for Texas breaking away from the Union, and authorities in Russia.
Nathan Smith, the self-described foreign minister of TNM, has been welcomed at far right rallies in Russia, and feted by state media for describing the U.S. as being “not a democracy, but a dictatorship.”
The Kremlin has also apparently harnessed its considerable army of Internet “trolls” to gin up discussions of Texas eventually seceding from the Union on various platforms globally. etc
It was a surprising development on a surprising night. In the early hours of 9 November 2016, shortly after it became clear that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, .
"Calexit" is short for "California exit" - the idea that the US state could break away from the rest of the nation - and the election-night trend seemed to be driven by liberal activists wary that heavily Democratic California would be governed by Trump.
But BBC Trending has found evidence that the hashtag had some outside help, from accounts run by people based in Russia.
As a result of US Senate hearings into possible Russian influence on the election, Twitter recently released a list of accounts banned from the network because of ties to the Internet Research Agency, a St Petersburg-based "troll factory".
There are also indications that the election night #Calexit trend - the hashtag was mentioned 100,000 times in the course of a few hours - was artificially driven by automated bots or fake accounts. Several of the most retweeted messages under the hashtag were posted by accounts with just a few hundred followers. And some of those tweets were retweeted thousands of times, an unlikely - though not impossible - occurrence.
In the hours after it became clear that Trump would win the election, one #Calexit tweet by a California teenager was the most retweeted message using the hashtag:
And then there is Vladimir Putin, a man who is always eager to insert himself craftily into any juicy trouble spot — the exploitation of which strengthens Russia’s hand and nefarious alliance games.
Putin has long been bent on reversing Russia’s defeat in the Cold War — and on restoring the dominance it lost with the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
Stirring civil unrest
To boot, Putin has stirred civil unrest and supported separatist movements in many regions of the world.
He has done so in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia — and other former Soviet republics, as well as in Syria, Libya and the Central African Republic.
What about the United States? There, it isn’t so much about deploying off-label military, often referred to as “little green men” (remember those soldiers wearing no insignia who were used by Putin to annex Crimea from Ukraine in 2014?).
The forces that Putin’s Russia deploys in the United States are much more sophisticated — and insidious.
Always looking for foreign help
While the exact nature of the Trump election campaign’s cooperation with Russia has never been fully revealed, Trump has admitted that he welcomes foreign support in elections.
Ominously, Russia remains the only major country not to congratulate Joe Biden on his election victory.
Putin and Trump are the only heads of state — with the exception of some third world autocrats — not to accept the result of the U.S. election.
Conclusion
Russian and Soviet power have long been based on waging disinformation wars. The extent to which Russia plays this game in an ever more obtrusive and simultaneously nefarious fashion has recently been exposed.
In that sense, Putin does rely on sending his “little green men” to the United States, only that they operate in digital form — not sporting any generic military garb.
But alongside a U.S. President who only cares about himself and never really about the nation he leads, this digital insertion of Russia’s destructiveness can easily foment the slide toward major unrest and political violence.
The excuse one sometimes hears is that people don't trust the election process - the FAKE election fraud hoax perpetrated by Trump and adopted by his mindless minions, all doing Putin's bidding, undermining belief in democratic processes and therefore Democracy itself. Secession and division is what Putin wants in the US and throughout Europe in order to weaken partnerships, and through election engineering as we had here in 2016 to install puppet dicktaters like Trump who will further his cause.
By
June 23, 2015
With the old Confederate battle flag very much in the news as a result of the horrific racist shooting in Charleston, S.C. last week, politicians across party lines are rushing to consign the symbol of Southern secessionism to museums, rather than to state capitols in former Confederate states.
But support for the secessionist cause still remains strong in…the Kremlin.
In , reporter Casey Michel outlines the deeply strange connection between the , a group that advocates for Texas breaking away from the Union, and authorities in Russia.
Nathan Smith, the self-described foreign minister of TNM, has been welcomed at far right rallies in Russia, and feted by state media for describing the U.S. as being “not a democracy, but a dictatorship.”
The Kremlin has also apparently harnessed its considerable army of Internet “trolls” to gin up discussions of Texas eventually seceding from the Union on various platforms globally. etc
It was a surprising development on a surprising night. In the early hours of 9 November 2016, shortly after it became clear that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, .
"Calexit" is short for "California exit" - the idea that the US state could break away from the rest of the nation - and the election-night trend seemed to be driven by liberal activists wary that heavily Democratic California would be governed by Trump.
But BBC Trending has found evidence that the hashtag had some outside help, from accounts run by people based in Russia.
As a result of US Senate hearings into possible Russian influence on the election, Twitter recently released a list of accounts banned from the network because of ties to the Internet Research Agency, a St Petersburg-based "troll factory".
There are also indications that the election night #Calexit trend - the hashtag was mentioned 100,000 times in the course of a few hours - was artificially driven by automated bots or fake accounts. Several of the most retweeted messages under the hashtag were posted by accounts with just a few hundred followers. And some of those tweets were retweeted thousands of times, an unlikely - though not impossible - occurrence.
In the hours after it became clear that Trump would win the election, one #Calexit tweet by a California teenager was the most retweeted message using the hashtag:
And then there is Vladimir Putin, a man who is always eager to insert himself craftily into any juicy trouble spot — the exploitation of which strengthens Russia’s hand and nefarious alliance games.
Putin has long been bent on reversing Russia’s defeat in the Cold War — and on restoring the dominance it lost with the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
Stirring civil unrest
To boot, Putin has stirred civil unrest and supported separatist movements in many regions of the world.
He has done so in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia — and other former Soviet republics, as well as in Syria, Libya and the Central African Republic.
What about the United States? There, it isn’t so much about deploying off-label military, often referred to as “little green men” (remember those soldiers wearing no insignia who were used by Putin to annex Crimea from Ukraine in 2014?).
The forces that Putin’s Russia deploys in the United States are much more sophisticated — and insidious.
Always looking for foreign help
While the exact nature of the Trump election campaign’s cooperation with Russia has never been fully revealed, Trump has admitted that he welcomes foreign support in elections.
Ominously, Russia remains the only major country not to congratulate Joe Biden on his election victory.
Putin and Trump are the only heads of state — with the exception of some third world autocrats — not to accept the result of the U.S. election.
Conclusion
Russian and Soviet power have long been based on waging disinformation wars. The extent to which Russia plays this game in an ever more obtrusive and simultaneously nefarious fashion has recently been exposed.
In that sense, Putin does rely on sending his “little green men” to the United States, only that they operate in digital form — not sporting any generic military garb.
But alongside a U.S. President who only cares about himself and never really about the nation he leads, this digital insertion of Russia’s destructiveness can easily foment the slide toward major unrest and political violence.
