Great analysis. I continue to believe Trump sees himself as part of a new troika with Putin, Xi, and himself as the leaders. He is, of course, out of his league with those guys and will only lead us down a path to diminished influence. He sees everything as a transactional money play while the other two actually have a long term geopolitical gameplan. It is sad to see the American house burn down and not be able to much to stop it.
I would recommend Mr Zelinsky not ingest anything during his time there and wear at leat flesh tone surgical gloves. No one will have his back. He's a remarkably brave man and worth every penny the Ukrainians are.paying him.
I would recommend not participating, going, etc. as Putin is a war criminal and Trump is in Putin's pocket. Is Zelenskyy actually considering or going?
"Trump’s... financial ties between Russia’s criminals and oligarchs are prolific, and massive...
[as well as] extensive and long-standing... arrangements with the Russian government... even before Putin effectively merged the Russian ship of state with organized crime...
Putin was far away, in every sense, from Moscow’s dealings with Trump in the 1980’s, but these dealings continued, and almost two decades before Putin succeeded in installing Trump in the White House, the interface of a) Trump’s need for cash to prop up his always failing business, b) his political ambitions, and c) the Kremlin’s endless efforts to find avenues to infiltrate the US government and economy, was evident...
It seems the Trump organization, and Trump himself, were a portfolio of assets Putin inherited from his Kremlin predecessors, and Trump seems to have viewed Russia as a partner in helping seize the White House. Since it’s hard to imagine Trump having that much imagination, or capacity for strategic planning, we might speculate that his Soviet handlers early on suggested and promoted the notion that Trump consider political aspirations, and, playing to Trump’s ego, hinted he of course should only go straight to the top...
The Kremlin didn’t come looking for Trump in 2011; he went to them as early as 1986, if not before. And his motive appears to be not only taking money he needed to simply avoid bankruptcy, but to set himself as a player, a power broker on the world stage.
He was, and remains, the textbook example of a useful idiot (полезные дураки)."
This would also deny Orbán the photo op he is after. He has elections next year and is well behind in the polls, no doubt he sees the potential summit as good material for his campaign.
Zelensky is offering to freeze the conflict at current locations. Putin will say no and the Bolshevik-Right will still blame Zelensky. That’s my prediction
State Supported Vigilante Registered Voter Attack Turning Into Federal Scheme
Months before the 2024 election there was a documentary done by Greg Palast’s Vigilante Challenge(bit.ly/41UelTx) privately supported by a couple of celebrities After the 2024 election Palast, a well respected investigative journalist, shows that Harris would have won the election had it not been for the vigilante challenge of registered voters(specifically targeting AfroAmerican voters) by 40,000 vigilantes(these were MAGA private citizens could challenge the registration of a voter just because they could) This Georgia vigilante experiment evolved out of the Jim Crow era and the racial undertones that they had
Marc Elias in his Democracy Docket interviews Prof of Law David Noll(bit.ly/3KQpT5D) who wrote about a state legislative vigilante effort and warned before the 2024 election with his co-authored book Vigilante Nation that this would take place at the state government level Now Noll is bringing up the concern that the federal government will take on this state supported vigilante attack on registered voters
Cheeto and the Nazis in the BH(Black House) learned from their Georgia experiment that this vigilante scheme can be federalized to fit their totalitarian strategy to stay in power
Great analysis. I continue to believe Trump sees himself as part of a new troika with Putin, Xi, and himself as the leaders. He is, of course, out of his league with those guys and will only lead us down a path to diminished influence. He sees everything as a transactional money play while the other two actually have a long term geopolitical gameplan. It is sad to see the American house burn down and not be able to much to stop it.
Yes it's sad to live here and feel it too.
I would recommend Mr Zelinsky not ingest anything during his time there and wear at leat flesh tone surgical gloves. No one will have his back. He's a remarkably brave man and worth every penny the Ukrainians are.paying him.
I would recommend not participating, going, etc. as Putin is a war criminal and Trump is in Putin's pocket. Is Zelenskyy actually considering or going?
Thank you Garry .. SHORT header: Trump sees Putin strong. and EUROPE (and all Democracies as weak) HE IS TESTING EUROPE.
Any country in the #EU has the power to stop a TRUMP PUTIN BUDAPEST meeting.. but will they?
Sharing as widely as I can.
'Trump has been a Tool for Russian Organized Crime for Decades- The Kremlin Connection.' (Feb. 10, 2018)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/10/1740341/-Trump-has-been-a-tool-for-Russian-organized-crime-for-decades-Part-2-The-Kremlin-connection
"Trump’s... financial ties between Russia’s criminals and oligarchs are prolific, and massive...
[as well as] extensive and long-standing... arrangements with the Russian government... even before Putin effectively merged the Russian ship of state with organized crime...
Putin was far away, in every sense, from Moscow’s dealings with Trump in the 1980’s, but these dealings continued, and almost two decades before Putin succeeded in installing Trump in the White House, the interface of a) Trump’s need for cash to prop up his always failing business, b) his political ambitions, and c) the Kremlin’s endless efforts to find avenues to infiltrate the US government and economy, was evident...
It seems the Trump organization, and Trump himself, were a portfolio of assets Putin inherited from his Kremlin predecessors, and Trump seems to have viewed Russia as a partner in helping seize the White House. Since it’s hard to imagine Trump having that much imagination, or capacity for strategic planning, we might speculate that his Soviet handlers early on suggested and promoted the notion that Trump consider political aspirations, and, playing to Trump’s ego, hinted he of course should only go straight to the top...
The Kremlin didn’t come looking for Trump in 2011; he went to them as early as 1986, if not before. And his motive appears to be not only taking money he needed to simply avoid bankruptcy, but to set himself as a player, a power broker on the world stage.
He was, and remains, the textbook example of a useful idiot (полезные дураки)."
But no one cares he is a criminal ... they are all just jealous.
This would also deny Orbán the photo op he is after. He has elections next year and is well behind in the polls, no doubt he sees the potential summit as good material for his campaign.
this is ~10 years of trump meetings\calls with putin 'fixing' all russian issues.
(and trump himself includes 2020-2024)
terrifying that trump still wants to deal w this savage
Zelensky is offering to freeze the conflict at current locations. Putin will say no and the Bolshevik-Right will still blame Zelensky. That’s my prediction
State Supported Vigilante Registered Voter Attack Turning Into Federal Scheme
Months before the 2024 election there was a documentary done by Greg Palast’s Vigilante Challenge(bit.ly/41UelTx) privately supported by a couple of celebrities After the 2024 election Palast, a well respected investigative journalist, shows that Harris would have won the election had it not been for the vigilante challenge of registered voters(specifically targeting AfroAmerican voters) by 40,000 vigilantes(these were MAGA private citizens could challenge the registration of a voter just because they could) This Georgia vigilante experiment evolved out of the Jim Crow era and the racial undertones that they had
Marc Elias in his Democracy Docket interviews Prof of Law David Noll(bit.ly/3KQpT5D) who wrote about a state legislative vigilante effort and warned before the 2024 election with his co-authored book Vigilante Nation that this would take place at the state government level Now Noll is bringing up the concern that the federal government will take on this state supported vigilante attack on registered voters
Cheeto and the Nazis in the BH(Black House) learned from their Georgia experiment that this vigilante scheme can be federalized to fit their totalitarian strategy to stay in power