What gardengeek said about Facebook and everything being filed with momentum and labour actually is a very good point. I believe there is a lot more to that than people are looking at. Forget the brexit vote stuff, there won’t be another vote and Russia I believe doesn’t care either way.
Putin has repeatedly made it clear he wants to be remembered as an iron man of Russia and wants to be the one that restores the USSR. But how could he do this without risking nuclear war?
As it stands if Russia wanted to grab Eastern Europe back it knows it would have to take the whole of Europe. Not actually a bad plan and in terms of military forces, they more than have the superior numbers and ability. They’d have pockets of resistance in Poland and other countries, but on the whole it would be a cake walk. But then there’s the British, under current and previous governments we would fight, we would lose as we don’t have the numbers and eventually tactical nukes would be the only way, which would lead to all out nuclear war, at which point the Americans would join in and everything would go to shit. So that’s not a good plan, back to square one.
Plan B, create unrest and decent within US and European countries so everyone is looking to themselves and can’t agree on a thing internally or as a group. Then test people’s resolve for another war by grabbing part or all of Ukraine back and see what people do. Funnily enough nobody did anything. Wow the stage is nearly set, maybe putin can get away with taking Europe and as long as no one uses a nuke, US is not going to get involved as it knows fighting Russia will end up in a nuke war. US will condemn Russia but will let it happen. But then there’s the British problem, they use nukes, so damn the plan will fail. Unless they can find some way in which UK won’t use them. Wait a minute, all we need is a party leader who’s a socialist/communist, who is a staunch anti nuclear and anti war/military person, who would never go to war or nuke anything even if it meant the total destruction of their own country.
So a few years of manipulation later, Kremlin’s perfect man appears and is catipulted from obscurity to the head of the Labour Party. Now all we need to do is create more and more unrest in British politics, help momentum and the likes secretly through social media, and he’ll get elected.
Then there would not be a better time to act on the plan, with the current labour leadership and mayor of London hating US and destroying relations, we’d be left to our own fate.
Far fetched? Or actually a very good logical plan. Russia is poor, has an economy not much larger than Sweden. Europe is beyond wealthy by comparison and Putin would be like Stalin or other great leaders from Russia.
I’m not normally a tin pot helmet person, but this seems to be a possibility. Just to be clear, I’m not saying corben is in on the plan. I just think he was too perfect for them not to help along the way.
It’s how I’d do it if I was Putin