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Trump has never stopped trying to make his boss his BFF:
olgalautman.substack.com - U.S. Starts Buying Eggs From Russia | And Treasury issues a waiver for some diamonds - 2025-09-06
reason.com - Trump Forcibly Returns Russian Dissenters who Fled Putin -2025-09-07
By Julie Roginsky @ saltypolitics.substack.com
saltypolitics.substack.com - Trump Working with KGB Successor on Deportations - 2025-09-09
saltypolitics.substack.com - Trump Unleashes the Dogs of War | Trump's greatest diversion from his failures is American carnage - 2025-09-07
Active Measures - Series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 1 - Active Measures: An Intro To the KGB Playbook
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 2 - Active Measures: Laying the Groundwork (2008 " 2012)
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 3 - Active Measures: Guns, Spies and Trump
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 4 - Active Measures: Putin's God Squad
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 5 - Active Measures: Nazis, the Kremlin and Trump
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 6 - Active Measures: How the Kremlin Penetrated Fox News and Right-Wing Media
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 7 - Active Measures: The Kremlin's Troll Factory
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 8 - Active Measures: The Trump Miss Universe Play
Diversion: "Russiagate Hoax" | "Not Russia, Russia, Russia..."
Just a sample of how wide Russian disinfo campaigns and networks spread - Operation Overload / Matryoshka:
www.wired.com - A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a 'Content Explosion'
Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.
www.sgdsn.gouv.fr - Matryoshka - Operation Overload - A pro-Russian campaign targeting media and fact-checking community
There are Matryoshka trolls on this site. Effeteposer is the most obvious low-level Russian one, some others are paid or "influenced" by and into dis/misinfo and become true believers, seeking similar "content" to reinforce [sometimes newly found] confirmation bias.
That's how Putin / Bannon / Trump tactic of "flooding the zone with s**t" works.
The NYT article which pissed off Trump didn't mention that son of Steve Witcoff, Zach Witcoff, a co-founder of WLF, became a buddy and crypto mentor of Barron Trump ('DeFi Visionary') before starting the company that is majority-owned by Trumps:
www.nytimes.com - Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches - 2025-09-15
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