Ex-president’s support for the Russian strongman has experts fretting over American interests and security sources overseas

Ex-president’s support for the Russian strongman has experts fretting over American interests and security sources overseas

Donald Trump’s continuing lavish praise and support for Russian president Vladimir Putin are fueling alarm among former intelligence officials and other experts who fear another Trump presidency would benefit Moscow and harm American democracy and interests overseas.

Trump praised Putin as a “genius” and “pretty savvy” when Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, and has boasted he would end the war in a “day”, sparking critics’ fears that if he’s elected again Trump would help Russia achieve a favorable peace deal by cutting off aid to Kyiv. Trump also recently greenlit Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to Nato members who don’t pay enough to the alliance.

“Trump views Putin as a strongman,” said Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution and a national security official in the first two years of Trump’s administration. “In a way they’re working in parallel because they’re both trying to weaken the US, but for very different reasons.”

More recently, instead of criticizing Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure, who the Kremlin once tried to kill with poison, and who died suddenly last month in an Arctic penal colony, Trump weirdly equated the four criminal prosecutions he faces with Navalny’s fate as political prisoners.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    274·
    8 months ago

    The electoral college was created so the slaver states could get political representation for the slaves without giving them the vote. Everything else is after the fact rationalisation.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      8 months ago

      Slavery played a big part in lots of our government…

      But ignoring every factor and saying “it was slavery” just makes people ignorant of everything else that we need to keep looking out for.

      If it was just the votes, they didn’t need third party delegates who awarded delegate votes.

      Each states popular vote could be used to determine how many “votes” they got by number of elected representatives.

      Adding in those non elected people to vote for the “real” election was a safety switch in case the people did something stupid, the delegates didn’t have to listen them.

      I just didn’t want to type all that at first, because it’s way to in depth for a random social media comment.

      Just because people leave something out, doesn’t mean it’s because they forgot to mention it.