The President of the United States Donald Trump had one week to prove the obvious: American voters made a big mistake by electing controversial Mogul head of the White house. During the last seven days trump has signed a number of highly controversial and possibly unconstitutional decrees, in consequence of which the country has stirred up a wave of political activism not seen here since the Vietnam war. Known for his uncouth and not very gentlemanly statements trump threw all the unwritten rules of conduct. By the end of the week, many commentators began to say that he’s out of his mind. It’s dangerous whim, destroying democracy with remarkable speed; so UN-American as possible.
The election trump the President and his first decisions on this post will have very far-reaching consequences. He insulted a neighbor of the United States, Mexico, announcing the construction of a useless wall on the us-Mexican border, which is supposed to pay the Mexicans themselves. Relations between the two countries became strained. Prohibiting entry into the US, Muslims from seven countries (“coincidence of circumstances” in any of these countries, the trump has no business), he deeply insulted the entire Muslim world. Moreover, since it was made into an international day of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, it hurt more and Jews. (Earlier, in his address on the occasion of Day of memory of victims of the Holocaust trump “forgot” to mention that the victims of these crimes were primarily Jews, like the Soviet leaders who denied any links to the Jewish origin of the victims.) His frivolous remarks concerning the South China sea he angered China. Due to negligence of trump, neatly formed and a developing relationship between the two countries, was in danger.
As noted by one commentator, trump seems to run the country so poorly, how poorly run their business some entrepreneurs. In this he is an expert: Trump Empire has experienced a lot of bankruptcies. Financial disaster he managed to escape only thanks to new loans, many of which, apparently, was provided by Russian banks.
More worrisome, perhaps, his hot-tempered behavior. Every day we are witnessing an endless stream of tweets with a lot of grammatical mistakes and misprints. The most dangerous aspect — the Russian factor: a (successful?) Russia’s attempts to influence U.S. elections with the help of hacker attacks, outright support of trump on the part of Vladimir Putin, business connection, President-elect and members of his team from Russia. These ties are numerous, close and secretive. The fact that the Russian FSB may be some sex tapes, which depicted the tramp, not improve the situation.
On the one hand, trump is having an affair with the gangster Putin regime (which, like trump, is a big fan of gold and other gaudy trinkets), and on the other — a very dangerous group of mostly right-wing and racist advisers, led by white supremacist and anti-Semite Steve Brannon. Most people are surrounded by the trump — white, very conservative men, obsequious towards their leader, a very vague understanding of Christian values (although calling themselves Christians), xenophobes, anti-Semites, who are struggling to understand the difference between personal and public interest.
Trump is Putin’s choice. Sooner or later we’ll find out how much the Russian President has affected the outcome of the presidential election in the United States. I hope that this is just wishful thinking, but the mind says otherwise: the intervention, hybrid war and the manipulation is on the part of Putin. Perhaps us elections were his “finest hour”.
However, this “finest hour” can turn into a failure. “The godfather” Putin, the KGB chief Yuri Andropov, shortly before his death admitted that the invasion of Afghanistan to destroy USSR, will accelerate the demise of the state. I think the American elections in 2016 will be for Putin the same turning point. So he openly took the side of trump, there is so much evidence of his interference or attempted interference in American policy that so many people believe the new American President “Putin’s person”. Even loyal supporters of the trump guess. In all its simplicity and stupidity, and they think Putin is a kind of new “Uncle Joe”, a harsh leader. (In the end, a country like Russia needs a strong leader to move in the right direction).
When trump goes down (and he will be here, no doubt), every secret will be revealed, and will hit, first of all, according to Putin. Putin wanted an ally in the White house, and got an uncontrollable madman.
I’m sure in the near future, the Russian President will begin to regret what was involved in this game and in between the nightmares is to think about how nice it would be if the White house was Hillary Clinton. Yes, she’s a bitch and a negative attitude to Putin, but it is predictable. It is much easier to develop a policy toward another country, when on the other side sits an experienced diplomat who knows how to play by the rules.
Trump will become a nightmare for Putin and, to be honest, I am glad this idea. Given the current tense political situation in the US, not exclude that there will arise a strong enough movement to run in the country fundamental reforms and to improve the political system of the sample of the XIX century; to adopt a system of checks that would not allow another clown to lead the White house.
I remain optimistic.
Robert van Vorenus, Dutch Sovietologist, human rights activist, Secretary General of the international organization global initiative in psychiatry, lecturer at the universities of Georgia, Lithuania and Ukraine.
