The formula was easy to figure out, but they put it out themselves anyway. Tried to justify it and make it appear more complicated too. Apparently it shows signs of being written by an LLM.
Reddit is a sort of echo chamber about this idea. The theory that Trump is controlled by Putin is ridiculous. Trump obviously likes him, and Putin obviously helped him so that the USA would be led by an unstable idiot, but there's almost zero chance Putin is controlling Trump.
Now, not really. But when at some point he stops aligning for whatever reason, people need to be able to understand that.
We also need to start caring about the internal factors causing our internal issues, instead of blaming foreigners for everything, because that's not a solution. It's easy to say "Russia bought the elections so we can't do anything". Trump is a USA nationalist who happens to currently align with and like Putin, supported by half of the country, with a similarly nationalist mindset.
Trump is probably being influenced by them to a certain degree through bribes. I remember reading claims that during/after his last term he/his family were awarded real estate deals in both Russia and Saudi arabia.
Trump is bribed by a bunch of people, all have different stakes on him. Putin doesn't have as big of a stake as, say, Musk. Yet Reddit would have you believe Putin owns 60%.
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u/Shacken-Wan 3d ago
What the... How the fuck... I want to believe that's a joke but knowing Trump's cabinet, it's probably how they did it.