All of this analysis strikes me as nailing it, and I'm going to do some more writing about it for tomorrow's edition of my newsletter, but I am really struck -- and honestly cannot stop laughing -- about the part where Rubin was like "Waaaaaait a minute! Are you sure EDUARD GRIGORIANN is a real guy?" and the Russians and their cutouts were like "Yeah here's a Glamour Shot of him and some facts you won't find anywhere on Google because he's fake" and Rubin was like "OK cool, just making sure!"
"Eduard Grigoriann" sounds like the moth's son in Norm MacDonald's moth joke, and I know I'm not the only person who immediately thought that.
Creating "useful idiots" should be a two step process, but in this case all Russian intelligence had to do was make them useful...
We are moving into a world of Manchurian Influencers.
All of this analysis strikes me as nailing it, and I'm going to do some more writing about it for tomorrow's edition of my newsletter, but I am really struck -- and honestly cannot stop laughing -- about the part where Rubin was like "Waaaaaait a minute! Are you sure EDUARD GRIGORIANN is a real guy?" and the Russians and their cutouts were like "Yeah here's a Glamour Shot of him and some facts you won't find anywhere on Google because he's fake" and Rubin was like "OK cool, just making sure!"
"Eduard Grigoriann" sounds like the moth's son in Norm MacDonald's moth joke, and I know I'm not the only person who immediately thought that.