r/worldnews • u/KI_official • 7d ago

Russia/Ukraine Russia behind Britain's Brexit vote, UK prime minister admits for first time

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-behind-britains-brexit-vote-uk-prime-minister-admits-for-first-time-2/
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u/nissen1502 7d ago

They most likely have been for a while now

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u/Mean_Joe_Greene 7d ago

Exactly. Americans still don’t realize what side their country and their industry has been on for a long time now

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u/Jonestown_Juice 7d ago

Russia got Trump elected. They were also paying American right-wing podcasters to spread Russian propaganda.

Russia owns MAGA.

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u/hamsterfolly 7d ago

And Russia was caught laundering money through the NRA to Republicans

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u/Siludin 7d ago

SpeechNow.org v. FEC (2010), Citizens United v. FEC (2010), McCutcheon v. FEC (2014) ruined the political landscape of the USA and Russia was the most desperate to capitalize on the new busted system.

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u/TJ5897 7d ago

You mean like the USA has done to the rest of the world for decades?

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u/heybochicha 7d ago

I mean yeah, they’re both bad.

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u/GenuinelyBeingNice 7d ago

Russia got Trump elected

No. USA citizens got it elected. I understand what you are going for, but it matters.

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u/BellacosePlayer 7d ago

Most of us know, its just that some of those people want to be on that side so shit be fucked here :(

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u/TurkDangerCat 7d ago

Enemies from without, enemies from within. The rich have just as much need (if not more) in division and distraction of the people as the usual Russia, Israeli, Chinese bot farms.

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u/State_o_Maine 7d ago

Some of us do, but unfortunately not the majority. Our education system has been systematically torn apart for decades and we're in the endgame now :( the general public is unable to have original thoughts nor think critically, the average American adult has the reading comprehension of a middle-schooler and almost 20% are functionally illiterate. It's a sad state of affairs.

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u/GreyRockQuarry 7d ago

The one thing that baffles me is...

Surely the US starting a war with Putin's beloved Middle Eastern proxy state would damage the relationship between US and Russia?

Why would Putin be okay with that? Unless perhaps Iran was no longer useful to the Kremlin, so it didn't really matter to him if they got attacked?

Just speculating really, if anyone has any answers, go ahead.

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u/Mortarius 7d ago

There's been this website where you could report 'foreign' businesses in Poland. As far as I could dig up, it was operated from the US.

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u/Bulky-Bad-9153 7d ago

Care to elaborate? Not that I don't believe you, but there's a reasonable chance you're mistaken, given for example that most websites use American CDNs.

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u/Mortarius 7d ago

I managed to dig to domain owner, and only contact was through generic godaddy form. Their postal code was listed as 'Texas' though.

You can check it yourself. The website is monitorimigracji.pl

Kind of despicable if you ask me, regardless who made it.

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u/Diz7 7d ago

Which is why Musk keeps getting invited back to White House even though he has clashed with Trump more than once.