For Vladimir Putin and Russia, Donald Trump does a better job of undermining American power than any agent trained for this purpose.
The first mandate
Already in 2020, I wrote in a text entitled The useful idiotexpression used by Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vindman, that Donald Trump was obsessed by Vladirmir Putin.
Whether by looking at the behavior of Russia at the time, blackmailing Ukrainian President Zelensky or preferring to believe the president rather than his own intelligence services, Trump facilitated the work of the Russians.
You have already forgotten the Russian interference in the recent American elections, the (documented) links between many members of its electoral team and Russia, that the famous Mueller report did not whiten Trump or that the president had shared the content of documents Classified ultra-secret with the Minister of Strange Affairs Lavrov as well as the Russian ambassador Kislyak at the White House?
Not me. I leave you here a link to a 2017 article which presents in the form of tables all the links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Even more effective in 2025
If there were doubts about the hooked atoms of the two presidents, the first three weeks of the second Trump presidency should dispel them.
At the rate of things, it is easy to lose the thread, in foreign policy, the constant lies in the fact that Trump spares Russia or gives him gifts.
Do you imagine smiling on the face of Vladimir Putin when the American president names Tulsi Gabbard (who relayed Russian propaganda) to the head of all American intelligence, when he purges the FBI or the CIA?
The one that the KGB was already spying up in the late 1970s also broke the isolation of Russia by recently strokes with the Russian president. A recent article from The Guardian Recently reported the confidences of a KGB former who confides that Trump has been preparing for 40 years.
At the end of last week, the Trump administration opened its game a little more. Trump and Putin could themselves negotiate the end of the conflict in Ukraine, Zelensky and his family only preserving the country’s independence.
And it was before Vice-President JD Vance went to lecture the Europeans. Friday, he reproached them for imprisoning political opponents and of limiting freedom of expression. A surreal scene, the world upside down.
For the United States, support for Ukraine, if he was not eternal, constituted an investment, a demonstration of American strength and will, a message to Russia and China.
The Ukrainians have already paid very dearly a lesson that Europeans and we discover: we can no longer count on the United States.
Rather than collecting each on our side, why not work together?
