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'Backfired spectacularly': European officials reportedly now view US as an 'adversary'
(www.rawstory.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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It would seem as though Vance's grift worked spectacularly well
This is the response he was looking for
Exactly, "backfired" for whom? This is just what Putin ordered.
Where's the grift? I think y'all have overused the word and forgot the meaning.
Grift: "to obtain (money or property) illicitly (as in a confidence game)."
Or is the US somehow scamming the EU for money?
Grift is a word that is interchangeably used with scam or con (as in a confidence game)
The con here is that there is nothing substantive in Vance's speech. It was simply designed to cause a rift between the US and Europe
The goal is to reestablish the Russian Empire in order to help facilitate a global plutocracy
Divide and conquer
I get all that, but where's the money from the con? Grift is most literally about obtaining money.
I'd say extorsion? asking for money in exchange or protection?
Yeah. If he was hoping for approval from left and center. Big if
In what way could this possibly be construed as an attempt to garner approval from left and center?