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Russia/Ukraine CIA Chief Told Moscow Russia Is Getting Weaker—Putin Reportedly Canceled Their Meeting

https://united24media.com/world/cia-chief-told-moscow-russia-is-getting-weaker-putin-reportedly-canceled-their-meeting-22121
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u/SpecialistCut7101 9h ago

Think like one of his supporters though, ignore laws and morals, focus only on what makes us look strong.

His supporters like looking strong. They do not like looking weak and they do not like paying a ton for gas.

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u/Parliamen7 9h ago

Enforcing the world order you created is wahat makes you stronger

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u/Good_Restaurant15 8h ago

Problem is their whole schtick is nothing but a dumb person's idea of what a smart/strong person looks/acts like.

They don't know what it means to maintain 'world order', they only know how to grift, and chaos is their means to do it.

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u/TheMaskedMan2 6h ago

Their average supporter seriously thinks that all that influence was
‘weakness’ and ‘being taken advantage of’.

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u/GipsyDanger45 5h ago

And that USAID was a waste of money, they don’t understand global issues or what “soft” power is.

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u/Alundil 5h ago

This is because it's IN the name. It's "SOFT" power and so they, simplistically, think it's lesser than other forms of power/influence.

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u/Worthyness 1h ago

Maga only respond to big loud noises. Soft power doesnt make big loud noises and looks like empathy. An empathy is a sin for some reason.

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u/Itsjeancreamingtime 6h ago

The crazy thing was the JCPOA was probably the single best diplomatic success in American foreign policy history in terms of harm mitigation, but nooooo we needed $5 gas

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u/ExitLiquidity2026 4h ago

JCPOA was a softlanding for a moderate Iran to be integrated to the normal world. This should have paved way for Iranians to end hostilities towards USA, move towards a moderate oil player.

Republicans, in their classical stupidity and hate, fucked it all up.

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u/2bad-2care 6h ago

I love how they managed to completely and throughly piss away decades of soft power buildup in a matter of months. /s Absolute morons.

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u/ExitLiquidity2026 4h ago

The worst part is they still actively refuse to believe they are fucking idiots.

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u/Optimal_Juggernaut37 1h ago

they only know how to grift, and chaos is their means to do it.

They are the door-to-door salesman of global domination. A nation built on the backs of confidence men, gangsters, grifters, prospectors and thieves.

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u/Good_Restaurant15 30m ago

A nation built by slaves, then stolen by everyone you mentioned. Capitalism is the real enemy.

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u/sandgoose 8h ago

In their minds the world order US imperialism created has resulted in the US being taken advantage of. They are... not smart people.

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u/Daniel_The_Thinker 7h ago

I mean there are definitely cases of that, countries that benefit from that world order without buying in.

Trump is the loudest on that but he's not the only president to feel that way.

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u/Expensive-Sundae-831 7h ago

Of course they're not smart people. But you'll be saying this the rest of your life. Perhaps a different observation to make is to ask, why aren't humanity's "better angles" able to overcome this?

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u/Parliamen7 1h ago

You mean better ancles

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u/Expensive-Sundae-831 1h ago

beetle ankles.

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u/leostotch 8h ago

OK but you're talking about what actually makes you stronger, not what makes them feel stronger.

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u/SpecialistCut7101 8h ago

I really preferred the one we had just a few years ago, not a fan of “might makes right” since it might kill us all

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u/ABHOR_pod 5h ago

You’re forgetting the most important aspect of conservative thought, which is that rules are meant to restrain others, not to control you. Enforcing the world order means putting other countries in their place beneath you, not following international law.

This is the one true ideology of all conservative or right wing movements and it’s one that’s never disproven.

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u/Specialist_Cow6468 8h ago

You’ve gotta knock like 30 IQ points off where you’re at my friend. Yes, that is strength. It’s more about the appearance of strength in this context though

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u/Flomo420 2h ago

Chief of police burning down the department to send a message to the criminals that he is super badass

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u/iytrix 4h ago

That’s impossible to do because I can’t fathom what looks strong to them. They wore diapers over their clothes…..I’ve never interacted with people that have that low of thinking power, and I interact with thousands of the public daily. The closest I can grapple with it is their brains are just off and they wait for what to think. Like there is no “looking strong” action, just do anything and say “we so strong” and THEN that looks strong to them.

Paying more for gas and food is probably the only thought I’ve seen them have on their own, but even when told it’s not that bad a LOT of them got quiet. It’s like they’re taken the NPC modern insult and turned it into a badge of honor.

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u/portobox2 5h ago

I cannot and will not divorce myself from reality so distinctly. Its like asking someone to really endeavor to think like an ant; serve the colony, serve the "King," consume consume consume.

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u/SpecialistCut7101 8h ago

If the workers had access to good public education (they don’t) they wouldn’t be regarded drones.

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u/alexefi 8h ago

they do not like paying a ton for gas.

the do now, because cult leader told them so. what a few extra bucks to own the libs?

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u/Resident-Fly-4181 4h ago

All that winning, big beautiful winning, so much winning that it's incredible how much winning is going on.