The Twitter thread of Timothy Snyder you referenced was well worth reading. And Trump’s long long long relationship with oligarchs parking money in Manhattan real estate really rounds out the story. The problem? For ordinary citizens, too many dots to connect, too easy to dismiss as “just politics”.
The Twitter thread of Timothy Snyder you referenced was well worth reading. And Trump’s long long long relationship with oligarchs parking money in Manhattan real estate really rounds out the story. The problem? For ordinary citizens, too many dots to connect, too easy to dismiss as “just politics”.
As for China and COVID deaths? No, it's almost certainly well above 2 million. It was probably at the 2 million mark nearly 9 months ago: https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2022/06/coronavirus-week-112a-blame-xi-jinping.html
Russiagate was close to a nothingburger, Dick? Says who? Says Nature magazine. https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2023/01/even-nature-magazine-rejects-russiagate.html
As for asking for help? That's different from help being proffered, let alone collusion. Here's why no actual collusion happened:
A. Empirical counter-example — Trump sold weapons to Ukraine that Obama refused to sell.
B. Analytical thought — Vladimir Putin was too smart to get himself entangled with a flighty weathervane like Trump.