Tulsi Gabbard says US 'not so different' from Russia on free speech

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72. May be confusing Russian ASSET with AGENT.

1. If Gabbard were a DU poster saying the same thing, she'd be what Russian intelligence has long considered a "USEFUL IDIOT."



2. If she WORKED FOR RUSSIA, one of them, she'd be a Russian AGENT. Like Rosa Klebb or Maria Butina.



3. ASSETS are those whose behaviors are of special benefit to Russia. If she or someone else ran as a political candidate and used national attention to badmouth and splinter away support for Democrats, enabling Russia's choice to take power, that person would definitely be a really good ASSET to Russia. Assets only have to be helpful; they don't have to agree to be. They can be totally free and self directed or they can be compromised and coerced, knowing or completely clueless, rewarded or ruined.

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Gabbard's history is probably too well documented for her to have become an agent at some point in her past. As a national figure, once presidential candidate ( ) she was too helpful to just be a useful idiot. That leaves asset, and the millions of useful idiots who can always/usually be fooled (because they want to be) pretty much guarantee that public figures who behave like her can, and will, be put to good use by Russia.