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Bannon is being funded by a foreign agent. His job is to create controversy.

Bannon's company Cambridge Analytica was a subsidiary of SCL Group, a British psyops/infoops firm that explicitly intended to tamper in foreign elections.

US money paid to such firms also paid for Brexit.

Internet Research Agency, of Russia (Putin, Prigozhin) also trolled to get Trump elected in the United States.

"Internet Research Agency": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

> US money paid to such firms also paid for Brexit

Ironically, Britain backed the slaving south in the US Civil War; Britain wanted the south the secede from the Union.

The film National Treasure: Book of Secrets mentions this.

One thing that surprised me in the Epstein files is just how much Epstein was intertwined in various foreign relations. Like Peter Thiel repeatedly meeting Russian officials and his Kremlin handler (literally) at Epstein’s properties. And various Israeli people conducting business there. Isn’t Thiel collaborating with Russians treasonous? What does it mean when you have this set of people who are all working together - Bannon, Thiel, Musk, Vance, etc - are they all treasonous?

It all certainly looks iffy. Donald Tusk the Polish prime minister was saying Epstein was probably working for the Russians and getting kompromat for them. There seems to have been a deliberate effort to rope in as many people as possible. It's probably not legally treason but not good.

It's very convenient to be able to operate at a level that regular moral humans can't conceive as probable enough to warrant writing laws around.

There's a lot of stuff that I'd think unlikely but it turns out the Russians have office buildings full of salaried employees organising it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures

I'm not quite sure the answer. Maybe the west needs to get more serious about opposing that stuff?

I'm convinced all of these ghouls will do whatever they can to buy/cheat/steal these elections. Because if they don't, they all face potential prison time. And Bannon's not looking forward to going back.

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