Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 13 – At least since
Donald Trump’s election as US president in November 2016, Russian assessments
of him have ranged from the most positive to the most negative; but in a Facebook
post today, Russian historian Daniil Kotsyubinsky says that, despite everything,
Trump perhaps is ”our man” after all.
“In the international competition of
nuclear idiotism as before US President Donald Trump has a convincing lead,” he
suggests. Given his behavior, Russian President Vladimir Putin without even trying looks “less compulsive,
less unpredictable and less inconsistent;” and the Kremlin leader benefits from
this comparison (blog.newsru.com/article/13apr2018/trump).
As a result, “cowboy Trump” is doing
what he can to help Putin even if he is not aware of that fact. But it may be, Kotsyubinsky says, that what
Trump is doing is simply “gratitude for the secret support which the leader
Vladimir gave cowboy Donald in the recent elections.” If that is the case, the Russian historian
suggests, Trump is truly “ours.”
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