L O L G O P: If this piece is right, the Putinites see Trump as their revenge for the demise of the USSR, and, honestly, that's some pretty good revenge.

If this piece is right, the Putinites see Trump as their revenge for the demise of the USSR, and, honestly, that's some pretty good revenge.

Putin Is Banking On a Trump Win for His New World Orderwww.vanityfair.com Donald Trump’s nickname in the Kremlin? The American Gorbachev. Officials believe his chaos will be the downfall of the US.

And Russia doesn’t need to offer Trump much to tip America into our demise. Just a chance to be our Putin.

Trump wants to be your Putini-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io And the corporate right seems to want that, too. It’s not just about “collusion.” It’s about an almost complete alignment in opposing truth, justice, and the American way. Towards the end of the...

I don’t have sources in the Kremlin, but there is one key thing that the author of the article got wrong: Putin saw the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the biggest geopolitical catastrophe” not the collapse of the Eastern bloc. There is a difference and it somewhat undermines the main argument

It certainly applies to the views of Bluesky Communists.

it's all in sort of a re-casting of the single hegemon era of American foreign policy. From Putin's POV, the US was mean to Russia and this was the inevitable result. To Trump's (and, frankly, he's not wrong) we overextended ourselves on foreign adventurism quagmires

Trump thinks the US is an empire in decline that has to jealously hoard resources for ourselves by withdrawing from the world stage. Putin more or less agrees with those sentiments

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