Uncomfortably fitting
A Guardian article from 2021 making rounds in bsky presents a claim by Craig Unger in American Kompromat that KGB/FSB has had influence on Trump with some anecdotal evidence. This would explain their recently expressed views well, and could help understand their motivations, possibly regardless of the truthfulness of the claim (as a "wrong but useful model").
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the GuardianDavid Smith (The Guardian)
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