Should the pro-Russian attitude of Donald Trump towards Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine be surprising?
To answer this question, it is worth recalling his first word (2017–021). Even then, Trump's relation with Putin was commonly referred to as a circumstantial “friendship”. Trump repeatedly and publicly:
• praised Putin as a “strong and wonderful leader”,
• stressed that ‘they get along greatly’,
• questioned the findings of US intelligence services regarding Russian interference in the 2016 elections, interference in his favour,
• he consistently avoided direct criticism of the Kremlin.
The culminating minute was the Helsinki conference (2018), during which Trump, standing alongside Putin, suggested that the assurances of the president of Russia were more than reports of his own intelligence. This caused a wave of criticism even inside the Republican Party.
However, there is simply a crucial difference between that time and today. At the time, Republicans were not yet a full isolationist party. Trump's office was made up of people representing the conventional U.S. line as "a guardian of democracy":
1. John Bolton (National safety Advisor) – a supporter of a tough policy towards Russia
2. John Kelly (Head of the White home Staff) – General looking after the procedures and stableness of the state.
They, along with another officials, were the fuses that stopped Trump's unpredictable impulses and made certain that the global power strategy was not turned upside down, so that Russia's aggressive actions met sanctions.
In this term, the situation is different: the MEGA movement dominated the Republican Party, and Trump surrounded himself by loyalists fucked up like himself. , which removes existing barriers to US abroad policy. The imagination that Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will divide and subjugate the planet is no longer absurd.
