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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhats Worse: If Trump and Putin Get Along, Or If They Dont?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/06/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-presidential-summits-215336"SNIP...........
Trump and Putin have much in common, too, beyond their obvious authoritarian bent. Both came to power without the support of a political party establishment. Both seem to understand capitalism (in words used by Russia analysts Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy about Putin) as wheeling and dealing, as about finding and using loopholes in the law, or creating loopholes. Both rely disproportionately on small inner circles of close advisers. Both use profanity to mobilize the masses. These similarities help to account for their mutual attraction.
But other parallels portend mutual enmity and may have already begun to drive them apart. In contrast to Reagan and Gorbachev, Trump and Putin both believe in what the New Yorker writer Ken Auletta once summarized as the philosophy of Trumps mentor, lawyer Roy Cohn: Everyone lies, smears, covers up protects their friends. The rules of the game dont count as much as winning. And Putins grade school teachers description of him seems to fit Trump, as well: Volodya never forgives people who betray him or are mean to him.
If Trump and Putin get along too well in Hamburg, that could come at the expense of American allies in Ukraine and Syria. If they dont, and if each man blames the other for their split, their tendency to lash out at those who betray them could eventually lead to a dangerous confrontation.
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Whats Worse: If Trump and Putin Get Along, Or If They Dont? (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2017
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This is a fucking OUTRAGE, that they would meet at all, but Trump did work WITH Putin
Eliot Rosewater
Jul 2017
#2
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. Why is this even a question...
. .when juxtaposed against the backdrop of what Russia has done to our democratic process?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)2. This is a fucking OUTRAGE, that they would meet at all, but Trump did work WITH Putin
to steal the election.
So there is that.
We went from a country of alleged patriots who had every reason to dislike and distrust Putin, to half of us wanting to be him.
We are badly in need of correction.
emulatorloo
(43,979 posts)3. Schiff: Putin Aims To Take Down Liberal Democracy. To Put America First, Trump Must Stand Up To Him