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#6 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-08 09:19 AM
... I thought Trump is a Russian stooge.

If you don't think Trump is Putin's stooge, you haven't been paying attention.

Just a few most recent statements and events should disabuse you of the notion that he isn't:

1. So-called 28-points "peace proposal" written by Kremlin and giving Putin everything he demanded that Trump was trying to impose on Ukraine and pressuring Zelensky to accept. One of the "points" specifically provided Putin and Trump with a $100B slush fund, as part of removing all sanctions and "re-integration" of Russia into world's economy and establishing closer ties between Russia and US.

2. Trump is attempting to essentially expand and join BRICS, creating Core-5 / C-5 (where the US would be a "junior partner") after he tried but failed to recreate G-8 by reinstating Russia into "outdated" G-7. That's after he and GOP Congress nixed joining TPP / Trans-Pacific Partnership :

|------- "It's a deal that's designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone," Trump said then, yet China was not invited to join the trade pact, proposed and drafted specifically to reduce China's economic influence in the region and bringing signatories closer to the US. -------|

CPTPP, without US involvement, went into effect in 2018.

3. Trump's 2025 NSS document is "... formally accepting the same worldview that Russia and China have long insisted upon, that the world is carved into spheres...

... Trump administration endorses the very logic Vladimir Putin and other despots have used to justify expansionism."

It didn't work for Soviet Union, not working currently for Russia and China, and led to numerous ruinous wars.

Trump's demented "fever dreams" of LatAm colonies are not going to last 5 years, if that, but it's already doing lasting damage to the US, as countries are starting to turn away and establish their own "globalist" ties.