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Hugin

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3. The Kremlin has found a formula that it's used several times against NATO countries...
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 10:31 AM
Yesterday

Turkey, Belarus, Hungary, Ukraine (a couple of times, I know it’s not yet NATO) Britain, France, and most recently the US.

It’s made to appear there’s an organic endemic civil fracture in the county. Usually right-wing because they are the most reactionary and least rational. This rift is encouraged with money and subtle antigovernment activities until it spills over and becomes self-sustaining. Eventually these right-wing forces gain control of the country. The country ceases to be a threat with the benefit of the appearance of it being a civil action within the country so no attack and no Article Five.

Easy peasy. Now Trump is trying to pull the same schtick. First in VZ and it was a failure because the long game is foreign to Trump and he attacked. There’s been several stories about how the Trumps have tried to ply the population of Greenland already. He’s bound to get impatient again.

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