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This is 100% Driven by Americans. See “Freedom Caucus.”

If we're going to entertain the analogy further, Freedom Caucus is an association of funding targets for "VCs" (PACs and super-PACs) in which Russian investors/state agents are possibly LPs (see: reports of Russian money in the NRA).

LPs typically don't have such a direct influence on the operations of the investments, although certain actual LP arrangements have in recent years.

Of course, the nature of political contributions and influence seems to be vastly more complicated compared to VC.

The dismantling of the Fed Gov is decades in the making. While there may be recent foreign influence on the margins, the Kochs, Adelson, Mercer, and the rest of the GOP donor class are the originators of this GOP agenda.

Nothing is ever 100%

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