In the midst of a detestable, nonsensical conspiracy theory article – one of what must be tens of thousands that WaPo has printed over the last couple years – the loony toony conspiracy kook E.J. Dionne Jr. had a few moments of clarity.
The column itself was vaguely focused on Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist who was living in America and working with the NRA, studying the group so that she could form a similar group in Russia, who was arrested recently based on a conspiracy theory that she is a Russian agent (I believe the charges will be dropped, she is just a rando they are harassing for “RUSSIAN AGENT WORKING WITH NRA” headlines).
In examining that weird situation, Dionne points out why the Russian Kookspiracy is completely unneeded to explain the burgeoning alliance between America and Russia.
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