Trump Calls Putin to Congratulate Russian President on Election Win

Discussion in 'Political Discussions' started by Abner, Mar 21, 2018.

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  1. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

  2. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    One angle on this is the fact that Trump staffers wrote DO NOT CONGRATULATE in large font uppercase in Trump's briefing papers. Trump can't read, hahaha.

    Yet on the other hand... Here is the action that is of no value either to US or to Trump himself, internationally, domestically, morally, any way you slice it. It makes no sense whatsoever. However - however! - this has great value to Putin within Russia. Russian state pull all - ALL - the possible strings to up the turnout this time, to make elections appear legitimate and let Dear Leader claim the absolute mandate. They even replaced the evergreen Communist leader with more dynamic, charismatic, wealthier populist candidate who actually got some traction with the voters. All to get a great-looking picture on state TV (all TV in Russia are state, even private channels. With possible exception of Dozhd.TV, but even that is debatable). Getting Trump's congratulations is exactly what was missing to get this picture; the Great White Czar can't get his triumph if he only get congratulations from Belarus dictator in a company of Venezuela, North Korea, Bashir Al-Assad and pake "people's republics" in occupied parts of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. Why would Trump do something detrimental to himself but valuable to drug Vladimir? Puppet much?
     

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