Assuming Wes is right about the Russian mafia coming to the US and finding it easy pickings compared to the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, then is it plausible that the people who are accepting Russian money, going along with Russian talking points, or at the very least not putting up any resistance to Donald Trump and MAGA are doing so because they or their loved ones have been threatened or intimidated into cooperating or at least not obstructing? And I would extend that to high-level government bureaucrats with disappointing records, such as Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, Christopher Wray, and Lindsey Graham among others.
Assuming Wes is right about the Russian mafia coming to the US and finding it easy pickings compared to the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, then is it plausible that the people who are accepting Russian money, going along with Russian talking points, or at the very least not putting up any resistance to Donald Trump and MAGA are doing so because they or their loved ones have been threatened or intimidated into cooperating or at least not obstructing? And I would extend that to high-level government bureaucrats with disappointing records, such as Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, Christopher Wray, and Lindsey Graham among others.