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Entry tags:	anti-russia, putin, trump, usa

Vladimir Putin's fanboy
Хорошее, кстати. Опубликовано 10-го марта,
но позиция автора с тех пор только укрепилась
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/10/trump-putin-russia-asset-spy-security-ukraine-europe-war/
Трамп, может, и не шпион сраной, но он действует
в интересах путлера, и против интересов Штатов,
более-менее во всем.

Comrade Trump
Why he's acting exactly like a Russian asset would.

...Two retired Russian spies allege that Trump was
compromised on his trip to the Soviet Union in 1987 and
given the codename "Krasnov." Trump could well have
succumbed to the KGB's trademark cocktail of flattery and
blackmail on that trip. Many other Westerners did. I can
also believe that Russia funneled money to Trump in the
1990s to keep his near-bankrupt business empire afloat. I
agree that he's surrounded himself with grifters and
oddballs who give spy catchers hives.

But actually running him as an agent? Can you really
imagine Trump turning up on time for a clandestine
meeting? Remembering where the dead drop is? Filing
reports? Using a code book properly? Keeping secrets?
Obeying orders? His chaotic, petulant mindset would be a
case officer's nightmare.

The more likely and simpler explanation is that Trump is
just what he seems: a Vladimir Putin fanboy-and wildly
greedy to boot. He may be an asset to Russia but is not in
the formal sense a Russian asset. He admires the Russian
president-for-life's strongman style and the way his
regime allows insiders (and Putin himself) to turn power
into wealth.

In any case, the result is the same. Putin's hubristic war
in Ukraine could have ended in his downfall. But dithering
by the Biden administration and other NATO governments
turned it into a stalemate. Now Trump has tipped the
balance by cutting off aid and intelligence support to
Ukraine. That spells not only humiliation for Ukraine but
also huge costs and risks for European countries. After a
cease-fire, Ukraine could become a giant Bosnia: unstable,
resentful, and vulnerable. Attempts to provide defense and
deterrence there may prove a bonfire of European
credibility.

In the space of eight weeks, Trump has undone eight
decades of work in building American power in the
world. Gutting foreign aid, for example, does more than
practical damage to humanitarian causes. It removes a
central prop of U.S. influence. Team Trump actively
disparages the people and political parties running the
United States' closest allies. Instead, they promote
their rivals and opponents, from the far-right
Alternative for Germany to Nigel Farage's populist Reform
party in the United Kingdom. The result is that lifelong
Atlanticists in Europe now talk like Gaullists-the French
politicians who have always feared and resisted
U.S. influence.

The supposed rationale for inflicting all this damage is
realism. In Trump's "might is right" worldview,
bludgeoning Ukraine is just a tactical ploy to get it to
the negotiating table. Weakening Europe makes sense,
too-it will be easier for the United States to bully. If
the real threat is China, why not try splitting Moscow and
Beijing? Allies may whimper, but American voters are fed
up with subsidies to foreigners and want problems at home
fixed first.

But in practice, the policies are surreal. Those far-right
leaders in Europe are, guess what, notorious for their
anti-Americanism. They have close ties with China,
too. Wooing the Kremlin never works. Just ask former
U.S. presidents-Bill Clinton, the Bushes, and Barack
Obama. Russian leaders pocket concessions and do not
deliver. One wonders if the purported author of the Art of
the Deal has actually read the book published under his
name.

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Автор Edward Lucas,
вот более свежая статья его же:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/trump-putin-us-russia-reset-nato-eu-europe-ukraine-war/
"What a Trump Reset With Russia Could Look Like
A U.S.-Russia alignment would finally let Putin declare victory over Europe."

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После первого срока Трампа у меня были иллюзии,
что второй срок будет такой же беспредметный, много
выступлений против всяких гадов и врагов Америки,
на фоне продолжающегося усиления этих гадов и врагов
Америки во всех федеральных органах, в университетах
и в масс-медиа.

Я думал, что и второй срок будет такой же, но внезапно
на втором сроке Трамп сам оказался главным гадом и врагом
Америки, много хуже, чем все эти университеты, масс-медиа
и федеральные органы.

В 1990-е я жил в Штатах, но слышал про Трампа только в связи с его
прической, он был комическим дебилом из зомбоящика и предметом
шуток юмора по типу депутата Шандыбина, блиставшего тогда
же. Его президентство было предсказано в сериале
Симпсоны, именно в этом контексте: более
смехотворного, нудного и агрессивного дебила на
роль президента авторы придумать не смогли.

Но второй срок Трампа оказался еще ужаснее,
чем в предсказаниях, то есть все, что можно было
сделать плохого, Трамп сделал, и продолжает.

Продолжающееся облизывание путлеровской жопы бесит
неимоверно, но на фоне остальных косяков Трампа это такая
розочка на торте. Тупые американцы выбрали себе такого
же тупого президента, точно как в Идиократии.
Остальной мир пострадает, но зато избавится от иллюзий
в адрес США, оно того точно стоит. Вообще каждый должен пожить
в Штатах лет 5-10 и стать лютым ненавистником Америки,
эта страна патологична до омерзения, со стороны этого не видно.

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