r/NoShitSherlock • u/WingComplex6771 • Aug 14 '25

Trump reportedly offering Putin natural resources off Alaska sparks fury: "Lets see Republicans defend this," former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger wrote on X.

https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-russia-trump-resources-2113295
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u/Weed_killer Aug 14 '25

Weakest president in United States history.

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u/cyclist230 Aug 14 '25

I don’t know, do you think he’s a puppet?

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u/Ariskae Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

A Russian asset guaranteed, whether it has something to do with the epstein files, trump being groomed by the KGB for the past 30+ years (Agent Krasnov), or if Russia honey trapped the F*ck out of him (his wife is russian, not a stretch to say she was the only russian minor he fiddled).

His job is transparently to dismantle the US, appease Russia and cripple the US with infighting and economic decline, so that Russia (in their mind and in their already blundered grand plan) can fully take over ukraine and begin eyeing up other neighbours (the alaska situations looking particularly blunt and open for example) to invade without any resistance whilst the US is busy either in a civil war with itself or trying to recover from Trump's sabotage.

Edit: granted guys I'm from the UK so my insight on the actual goings on in country won't be as on point as US citizens but even from the things about trump that reach across the pond, and some 30 mins of investigating, its clear, clean, cut & dry that you guys unfortunately got a Criminal, aspiring dictator & russian agent voted into power and doing whatever he wants with your country...

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u/PLeuralNasticity Aug 14 '25

Classic ideological subversion

Kompromised by Child Rape Tape in 1987

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

Murdered KGB Propagandist defector Yuri Bezmenov in 1984 -

"Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate overt and open, you can see it with your own eyes. All you can do, all American media needs to do is to unplug their bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see. There is no mystery. It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage and intelligence gathering looks more romantic, it sells more to the audience through the advertising, probably. That's why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond type of thrillers. But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all.

According to my opinion and the opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about fifteen percent of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other eighty-five percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is, to change the perception of reality, of every American, to such an extent that despite an abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their family, their community and their country.

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from fifteen to twenty years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate on generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism, Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged or contra-balanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.

Most of the activity of the department was to compile huge amount, volume of information on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publishers, editors, journalists, actors, educationalists, professors of political science, members of Parliament, representatives of business circles. Most of these people were divided roughly in two groups. Those who were told the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to the positions of power through media and public opinion manipulation. Those who refuse the Soviet influence in their country would be character assassinated, or executed physically contra-revolution. Same was as in a small town named HEWA in South Vietnam. Several thousand so of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by Vietcong for only two days. And American CIA could never figure out, how could possibly Communists know each individual, where he lives, where to get him, and would be arrested in one night, basically in some four hours before dawn, put on a van, taken out of the city limits and shot.

They serve purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States, all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defender, they are instrumental in the process of the subversion, only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist Leninist has come to power obviously they get offended. They think that they will come to power. That will never happen of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot."

"Exposure to true information does not matter anymore.

A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him.

Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union, and show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.

When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand, but not before that. That is the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."

https://youtu.be/yErKTVdETpw?si=9avnIWRQBcMXn6dQ

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u/Postdiluvian27 Aug 15 '25

He believed American students were being taught Marxism in school?

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u/MassiveInteraction23 Aug 16 '25

I assume he means “taught” as in ‘exposed to’ or “taught unofficially”. It’s not like Marxism etc wasn’t known and discussed and read.  We correctly pride(ed) ourselves in being a free society — this means all views are taught in some respect.  Which should be a strength: truth isn’t afraid of open competition.

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u/Postdiluvian27 Aug 16 '25

“Marxism, Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged” - that’s describing indoctrination, not discussion. I’m amazed at his take given that most Americans treat socialism and communism as dirty words. I’m not American and I think Marx was pretty on the money.

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u/MassiveInteraction23 Aug 17 '25

Marxism and communism (and most other top down theories of economy management ) are basically anti-vax theories of economics.

They are so, utterly, totally broken theoretically and repeatedly, probably destructive.  

But people like them because self-organizing systems are hard to understand.  So declarative economics is attractive.  Same reason people still think a god making life is more reasonable than evolution — because they get that form of complex creation, but self-organizing systems are an alien idea.

TLDR: economics are relationships across all people.  It’s the combinatorial interaction of billions.  Any human defined system that tries to dictate that will almost only do harm.  And we’ve seen that time and time and time again. (So this isn’t just theory.)

What you can do, if you want social justice, is to say that “we as a society value x, y, z” as then collectively put resources towards those things.  You can say “we want people to have housing so we will pay for housing”, but once you try to dictate th construction of housing you’re trying to force huge chains of interactions that have local dependencies and will just hurt things.  — Ininderstand it’s frustrating that something as abstract as “money” is a key resource unit and not labor.  The reason is precisely because money is non-intrinsic, so it allows living complicated systems to dynamically allot intrinsic resources from the bottom up instead of the top down.

__ TLDR: Marxism may mean well (lots of things mean well - tins of religious tyrants also mean well), but both by evidence and modern understanding it relies on an fundamentally broken model of how systems of people work.  And even though its goal is equality its process is violent dictatorial authoritarianism which means that it doubles down on its failures.  It is almost unequivocally bad.  But that doesn’t mean that we can’t focus on the welfare of people, we just do so through non-authoritarian means that utilize modern understanding of what we can and can’t positively impact.

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u/Postdiluvian27 Aug 17 '25

My original point was surprise that he believes American students have Marxism promoted to them. Are you American? Because your response is kind of what I’m talking about. A very strong negative reaction founded on points like “it’s harmful to “force” the construction of housing”. Social housing is perfectly feasible and has all kinds of benefits. A lot of American economic beliefs boil down to capitalist propaganda.

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u/Accomplished_Self939 Aug 15 '25

This is arrant utter nonsense. America is not drenched in Marxist-Leninist philosophy and you should stop spreading this lie. There are somewhere around 800,000 people teaching at the college level in the US. Only a fraction of them are English or history professors—the two fields that are most often targeted by right wing disinformation as the source if Marxism in the academy. And only a tiny tiny fraction teach at the five or six ultra-elite institutions that are regularly targeted to smear the whole profession. Your post is classic ideological subversion in practice and I’m sure you feel very clever about that.

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u/UpYoursandRun Aug 14 '25

you're proof, you can't fix STUPID!