But of course they do.
Am I the only one who is not the least surprised by this turn of events???
I thought not.
So now Trump will have to try extra hard to please Vlad.
Russia’s lies are so predictable and boring.
This is like Ribbentrop accusing Neville Chamberlain of formenting new hostilities between Germany and the Allies over Germany’s aid to oppressed ethnic Germans in Sudetenland.
Yeah, I went there.
Something went bad wrong in Russia around 2012, which saw the rise of the siloviki, the power agencies, and pushing aside everybody else, including economists who had helped bring Russia into the global economy during the 2000s. Putin was always around, but something changed.
By 2015, Russia was just making bizarre blunders such as opening its Arctic Norwegian border to 5,500 Syrian refugees on bicycles to create chaos.
Russia has an economy about the size of Italy’s, but less diversified thanks to its resource curse. It also has a media that works against literacy as in Italy and the US. Looking back, the US probably could have done more to help the pro-West, pro-normality factions in Russia. For example, the current central bank governor, Elvira Nebuilina comes from the earlier time. She was a Yale fellow and studied at MIT, has helped Russia create a pretty good monetary policy, with inflation below 4% (which was considered a joke when first proposed).
Having Trump as president does not help US credibility. Russians call him “nash Tramp” our Trump.
Authoritarians all around the world project their behavior and desires on their targets.
Because the Russians had to learn to survive under Stalin and Communism, they learned to turn bullshit and passive-aggressive behavior into an art form. It’s an art form practiced to this day.
When I was in college, the library had a book entitled, “Polish Atrocities Against The German Minority in Poland.” It had been published by the Nazis. If you didn’t realize that the text was all lies and that the photographs showed German treatment of the Poles, it was a pretty impressive volume. The Russians and the Nazis use much the same playbook.
Trump’s lies are so predictable and boring.
Notice anything under the word, resemblance
It’s like trump and putin are brothers from the same mother with the little bro rivalry going on…