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by perf1 2063 days ago
Why would Russia actually support Trump? Fracking and Trump wanting to sell Oil to Europe is really bad for Russia. What did Russia get for allegedly supporting Trump?
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Destabilize the most powerful country in the world and then swoop in to fill that power vacuum. What has transpired in Syria is a prime example.
From this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics"."