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Ron Stewart's avatar

Wouldn't it be interesting to hear the White House press secretary's response. Ain't likely, I suppose.

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Betsy F Perry's avatar

Can’t await to read this

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James Groat's avatar

Krasnov for sure!

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Shauna's avatar

YUP

** IMPORTANT !!!!! read and listen to podcast below ..it is all clear trump MUST BE STOPPED WITH ULTIMATE PRESSUREWhat is happening IS the Mar a Lago accord now being rolled out It IS trumps intention to bankrupt the US citizens and stock markets ! - that IS WHY nothing makes sense and they LIE LIE  to protect their plan !You MUST listen to the Mar a Lago Accord explained here in the best detail ! on Apple podcasts -  BY Macro Voices and guest  Jim Bianco or Bianco research. Here is the link !https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/macro-voices/id1079172742 MEANS to 1) bankrupt the people of the US = Russia style = comply AND other Countries to 2) Then to start much unrest in the world - Iran is the next bomping planned so they can they CHARGE countries $$ for Military 'protection' = Mob style3) Once small to medium maybe large countries are almost bankrupt the US will then extort Countries to BUY US BONDS to then manipulate the dollar WHEN you listen you will understand it will lead to a HOT war and WWIII

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Melissa Jo  Peltier's avatar

100% excellent, Craig.

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Vlad Petrov's avatar

Please stop showing his mug

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Unaffiliated, Not Unaware's avatar

It is all the Republicans, not just 47! Please call them all out not just him. They could stop this, instead They are all supporting this and when he is gone they will continue.

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Don Knight's avatar

Great work! 💪

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Don Knight's avatar

Thanks for covering this – it’s incredibly important For people to understand. I also wrote about it as well if you’re interested in checking it out. 🙏💙

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Thomas Graves's avatar

How does one leave the KGB?

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Craig Unger's avatar

Yuri Shvets quit just as the Soviet Union was crumbling. Good timing on his part. Kalugin was fired in 1991.

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Thomas Graves's avatar

Love your work.

FWIW, I think General Kalugin and Colonel Gordievsky are still Kremlin-loyal agents of the type that James Angleton tried to warn us, “They’ll tell you 98% truth and 2% lies, and really mess you up, boy” (or words to that effect). At a conference at Texas A&M a few years, Allen Weinstein seemed to doubt Kalugin’s explanation as to why Vitaly Yurchenko returned to the USSR in 1985. The thing that's a big red flag (pardon the pun) for me is that they both claim Yuri Nosenko was a true defector (I’m convinced he was a false-defector-in-place in June 1962, and a rogue physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964 whose bona fides the KGB had no choice but to support through the likes of Kulak / FEDORA, Orekhov / SHAMROCK, Kochnov / KITTYHAWK and Yurchenko) and probable “moles” Bruce Leonard Solie (look him up) in the Office of Security and Leonard V. McCoy (ditto) in the Soviet Russia Division’s Reports and Requirements section), and they both trashed the fine 2007 Yale University Press book, “Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games,” by Noshenko’s primary case officer, Tennent H. Bagley.

Which book is free to read -- just Google “spy wars” and “archive” simultaneously.

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jpickle777's avatar

Fascinating. Do you think Trump fears that if he does not cooperate with/flatter/appease Putin (on Ukraine, tariffs, etc), he will be physically in danger? Or is he mainly concerned about being exposed as a longtime 'associate' of Russia? Surely by now Trump knows he has been manipulated! (?).

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Craig Unger's avatar

I think he's animated by greed more than fear. He doesn't mind being manipulated if he's paid off with billions of dollars.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Exactly Craig, Trump’s so easily manipulated, the KGB had him as an easy mark as you adroitly write in your books. Thanks for sharing on Substack, it feels like a refresher course!!

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Ann B's avatar

This Craig Unger guy is on target. I do personally think Roy Cohn was his groomer and positioned to get t into the game. Real estate red lining slum lord? Kompromat from day 1. In my humble opinion.

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Ann B's avatar

Yes. Trump was raised I. Norman Vincent Peale power of positive thinking cult at his Presbyterian church. Taken by Fred. His dad was a Nazism guy. So all this cult mind prep makes people susceptible to new cult mindfucks. Craig Unger has the history of Dr Steve Hassan has that and more on the brainwashing mindcontrol of cult tactics in maga and the rest. It’s worth a read. Hassan is on Substack. I subscribe.

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WinstonSmithLondonOceania's avatar

Roy Cohn? Mr. Un-American Activities himself? Hmmmmmmm, you might be on to something there. Intriguing in every sense of the word.

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