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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Is Putin Playing Trump Like he Played Berlusconi?

Authoritarian dictators stick together. This is why everyone from Putin, to Kim Jong-un-who thinks Trump would provide 'wise leadership'-to the Iranian government, to ISIS itself are #WithTrump. 

http://americablog.com/2016/08/hezbollah-kremlin-now-rooting-trump.html

With Putin, it's child's play to manipulate Donald Trump. Just outrageously flatter the man. That is always enough to get on his Christmas list. Doesn't matter then if you're Charles Manson if you praise Mr. Trump. 

"Is Putin playing Trump like he did Berlusconi?"

"U.S. officials see parallels between Putin's courtships of Trump and the former Italian leader."

"In January 2009, the U.S. ambassador in Rome cabled Washington to raise an alarm. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the diplomat wrote, had cultivated a troubling relationship with the country’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi."

“Berlusconi admires Putin’s macho, decisive, and authoritarian governing style, which the Italian PM believes matches his own,” wrote the ambassador, Ronald P. Spogli. “From the Russian side, it appears that Putin has devoted much energy to developing Berlusconi’s trust.“

"The ambassador noted with concern that the brash Italian billionaire, who was driven from office by scandal in 2011, was openly challenging U.S. policy toward Russia and echoing Putin’s views on issues from NATO expansion to Kosovo to missile defense."

"And he shared reports from opposition party contacts of a more “nefarious” factor: talk that “Berlusconi and his cronies are profiting personally and handsomely” from business ties to Russia.

"Seven years after that cable, disclosed by WikiLeaks, the Berlusconi-Putin bromance has acquired a new resonance, as foreign policy analysts and even some U.S. officials see unsettling echoes in the recent long-distance kinship between the Russian leader and Donald J. Trump."

"It may even suggest that Putin is applying a specific method to the GOP nominee. In recent years Putin has befriended several major Western European politicians, including former leaders of France and Germany, who openly challenge U.S. and European policies toward Russia, including NATO’s buildup in Eastern Europe and economic sanctions punishing Putin’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine."

"But Trump is most frequently compared to the 79-year-old Berlusconi. Both men are wealthy populists known for their expensive tastes, outrageous rhetoric, relationships with women and all-around showmanship. Like Berlusconi, Trump has demonstrated an unusual affinity for Putin — along with notable dissent from confrontational U.S. and Western European policies toward Russia."

"Putin’s friendship with the Italian may simply demonstrate that the Russian leader has a natural chemistry with a rich, politically incorrect businessman."

"To some, however, it hints at something more."

“The parallels with Trump are a little too disturbing,” says a U.S. government analyst who closely tracked Russia’s relationship with Europe when Berlusconi was in office. “Putin is very strategic. He would focus on people’s vulnerabilities — whether their vanity or greed or financial needs.”

"That view echoes the analysis of former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, who recently wrote in The New York Times that Putin, drawing from his background as an intelligence officer, had made a “calculated” overture to Trump early in the presidential campaign, “playing upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him,” and turning Trump into an “unwitting agent” of Russia."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-silvio-berlusconi-227084#ixzz4HhFwMxr3

Trump may already be an agent of Putin and not even realize it: he just knows how Vladimir makes him feel.

In my earlier piece I looked at some of the shocking things that Guccifer 2.0 RTs on Twitter-similar to what Wikileaks RTs which show a lot more than just a desire to increase transparency for the public good.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/08/jill-stein-plays-lock-her-up-game.html

Is Guccifer 2.0 and Wikileaks owner, Julian Assange trying to help Donald Trump? At the least they are clearly trying to hurt Hillary Clinton.
Russia is really working hard to control the Twitter feeds of each of us.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/06/how-russia-dominates-your-twitter-feed-to-promote-lies-and-trump-too.html?via=mobile&source=twitter
Finally, the question of the day with regard to the new Trump plan to 'Release his inner Trump' with the hiring of Stephen Banner:

So he's been holding back the past 18 months?

https://twitter.com/SeanTrende/status/766270139453014016

For those muddle headed Dead Enders-a la Ha Goodman-who think that Trump is somehow 'Less interventionist than Hillary'-they might want to listen to what he said yesterday: he wants a 'peaceful regime change in this country.'

Exactly. From American democracy to Putin style dictatorship.



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