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I love how the attempt in the sub-headline/1st paragraph to tie it to spying is totally contradicted by the rest of the article.
Not to mention scientists of ALL ethnicities are fleeing the US - Europe is struggling to find openings for all the applicants (and they have loudly said they're welcoming the brain drain).
Exactly, Chinese scientists fleeing the US just have an easier time because China has massive science budget now. The scale of brain drain the US is experiencing is going to be disastrous. These are skills that will not be easy to rebuild in the future, assuming the US even survives as a state.
As someone smarter than me noted a while ago "Let's assume for a moment that Trump was a Russian agent when he got elected, with a goal to destroy the US both internally, and its power on the world stage...what exactly would he have done differently to further those aims that he has not done ?"
The only thing I can suggest would be more overt ties to Russian and a pro-Russian propaganda campaign.
An Orwellian "We have always been at war with Europe" or something
How about have Trump help Russia attack its enemies instead of its allies the way Trump has done for Israel and thus declare war on Israel, Estonia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan instead of Syria, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba?
Or invite Putin into Capitol Hill and have him give a scathing speech where he can say he will "achieve total victory against Azov" and denounce American opponents of the war in Donbass as “idiots“ and emphasize longstanding and close ties between the United States and Russia.
And then have Putin pay influencers to fight against anti-Slavism.
And also have any pro-Ukrainian protest be shut down, with the argument that any such protest would instigate violence against the Russians.
Perhaps Trump could also have been long-time friends with an Orthodox Christian billionaire swindler and sex addict that went from being a pyramid schemer to luring young women and underage girls with job opportunities to his lavish excluded island resort, where he could freely pimp them out to billionaires and then later bribe those billionaires with secret video tapes.