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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Putin is an extreme example, true. But not terribly much more powerful than Rupert Murdoch. I’d surmise Rupert can manipulate Trump almost as much as Putin. Putin’s distinction is he can do it more easily. He just threatens to call loans and drop dirt on Trump. Murdoch has to cause public opinion shifts to indirectly move Trump where he needs him to go.
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These are categorically different things.
With that said, in my more tinfoil-hatted moments it does seem as though there is a global cabal of oligarchs (Murdoch, Kochs, Putin and his cronies) backing the worldwide white nationalist movement, so, ya know.
The Kochs both don't really fit in there, because they seem to be genuinely be motivated by (highly profitable for them) libertarianism and less interested in stoking ethnonationalism, and do because much of this is about propping up dying extraction industries (i.e., Russia's entire economy).
