"« S’il y a menace de préjudice, le responsable des émissions de CO2 pourrait être tenu de prendre des mesures pour les empêcher », même si les dommages surviennent très loin de l’endroit où le producteur d’énergie se trouve, a tranché la cour d’appel de Hamm."

But still — this is super well-made documentary movie with crazy access to key figures, from Oleg Kalugin, former head of KGB foreign intelligence to foreign FBI agents. You can still find it online under the title "Operation Trump: Russian Spies Conquer America".

And to be fair, the documentary doesn’t really dwell on the fact that, for a long time, many were right not to fuel a new Cold War with Russia. There were also good reasons to try and build peace, economic ties, and mutual understanding after the Soviet collapse.

Of course, this "operation" is probably only one part of the story. Greed and opportunism play their role too — with Big Tech oligarchs happy to align with authoritarian regimes if it helps shrinking democratic spaces where it is not the strongest or wealthiest who decide (see Musk vs Wikipedia)

What I found striking was the broader strategy: the goal wasn’t to push one ideology over another — it was to amplify divisions within Western societies, wherever they existed. No problem shifting from courting leftist movements to infiltrating the right if it served the same purpose.

Days later he is back in the US, attacking NATO on TV. The documentary retraces the now-familiar playbook of Russian interference in US elections: the Clinton email leaks, the social media bots, the Trump campaign’s repeated contacts with Russian agents.

It shows how in the late '80s, Trump, drowning in debt, finds eager buyers for his luxury apartments — members of Russian organized crime, leading him to get the opportunity to pitch a Trump Tower project in Moscow in 1987.