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6. Russia infiltrated the NRA, Surprise!

Their agent Maria Butina was convicted of a crime in the states.

https://news.yahoo.com/maria-butina-convicted-russian-spy-150828461.html

Maria Butina, the convicted Russian spy who tried to infiltrate the NRA ...

Mar 24, 2022 Butina pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and served 15 months in prison before returning to Russia. Maria Butina, a Russian woman convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent before and after the 2016 election, is among the hundreds of Russian lawmakers facing new sanctions from the Biden administration

Below is from my link above. NRA is just one arm of this sabotage operation.

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When you start with the premise that Russia has instigated a campaign of disruption in the U.S. to bolster its aims, ALL the pieces fit together perfectly.

• The conservative movement took a hard swing right from its Limbaugh days of conservative issues and hate to pure hate and destruction. This coincides with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet messaging ceased.

• Russia’s economy is extremely oil-dependent. Oil interests control many legislators, and reap massive subsidies and favors.

• Russia is an Orthodox “Christian in name only”, mostly white state. The church blesses nuclear warheads and Putin has declared his intention to expand his White Christian Nationalism.

• Putin wants Ukraine. Arguably, that is the cause of his interference in the 2015 election to install an asset as president and weaken NATO, effectively delivering him Ukraine.

• Bots spread lies and divisive messages to get Americans to fight one another.

• A major news outlet repeatedly praises Putin, when there’s nothing apparent to gain by doing so. On the surface, anyway.

• Russia financed and infiltrated the NRA with the goal of replacing constitutional government with mob rule, and domestic terrorism.

• The abortion issue is just the first volley. They have others at the ready, and are working top-down and bottom-up to destroy constitutional rights, the constitution and the country, and hand it over.

The GOP is Putin's "fifth column" in the U.S.