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In reply to the discussion: Trump is the greatest threat to the US that has ever existed. [View all]Kid Berwyn
(18,599 posts)6. "America's Gorbachev"
... Is what they call Donald J Trump in the Kremlin. The name fits, seeing the Foreign Minister of Russia standing behind then-pee-resident in the Oval Office. To anyone who cares about the United States and our Constitution, the image represents an accomplishment like when the US planted its flag on the moon.
And here's why:
Putin Is Banking On a Trump Win for His New World Order
Donald Trumps nickname in the Kremlin? The American Gorbachev. Officials believe his chaos will be the downfall of the US.
By Mikhail Zygar
Vanity Fair, June 25, 2024
Idont know which moment in American history Donald Trump imagines when he says, Make America great again. He has never given a clear answer in any speech or interview. But I know exactly which moment Vladimir Putin imagines in his own vision for Russian greatness. It is February 1945, when Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill divided the world in Crimea.
Three months remained before the surrender of Nazi Germany, but it was clear that the Allies were winning. To determine what the world would look like after the defeat of the Third Reich, the US president, British prime minister, and Soviet leader went to the city of Yalta, a resort area in Crimea. Stalin achieved everything he wanted: He convinced his then allies that he should have his own sphere of influence, which included all of Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the former Czechoslovakia, and the former Yugoslavia. The leaders also devised the United Nations Security Council, on which they secured permanent member seats for their countries.
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The fantasies of Kremlin strategists have developed like this: A new Yalta Conference with Putin and Trump might not necessarily take place in Crimea. For greater symbolism, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, roughly equidistant from Russia and the US, would be more suitable. My sources in Moscow, who wish to remain anonymous for security reasons, suggest that such a summit could look good on Fiji. The Pacific archipelago is conveniently equidistant from Russia and the US.
Putins entourage understands that despite his ambitions, he is not like Stalin in 1945, and todays Russia is no match for the Soviet Union. Therefore, the dreams of the current Kremlin inhabitants suggest that another participant in the new Big Three should be China, represented by Xi Jinping. They believe that the real Cold War is beginning between China and the US, so the upcoming Yalta: Fiji should formulate the rules of this confrontation. And Putin is ready to be content with the role of the third partner, a kind of modern-day Churchill. Of course, he wants to secure his place on the global board of directors that is the UN Security Council and expects to be allotted his sphere of influence: the countries of the former Soviet Union.
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For them, Mikhail Gorbachev is not a democrat or a reformer. For former KGB officers, Gorbachev is a demagogue and a narcissist who desperately wanted to please the audience but had no plan of action; a president whose policies were so chaotic that the empire began to fall apart, with different parts declaring their independence. This is wishful thinking, but Putins inner circle would like to believe that Trump could become just such a president.
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America's main adversary, Russia, helped Trump win in 2016, 2020 and, going just from the bots and billionaires on X, in 2024. Their aim is to destroy the United States of America. And to think We the People are turning over the reigns of power to Putin's tool without even raising a question about its morality, legality and logic that the thought of January 20, 2025 makes me sick.
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Biggest criminal in American History. He makes Whitey Bulger look like a Boy Scout.
Botany
Dec 13
#2
As we get closer its becoming painfully evident that the USA as a role model of democracy, truth and the American way
kimbutgar
Dec 13
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He just may be the greatest threat ever to the modern world not just here n/t
Cheezoholic
Dec 13
#15