#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
During his 40 months in office, events have tested #Biden’s vision of American world leadership. #Alliances haven’t been enough to win a new European #war in #Ukraine. US #power & leverage haven’t prevented a #humanitarian catastrophe in the #MiddleEast, marked by alleged #WarCrimes. #Putin is trying to assemble an axis of #autocrats from #Tehran to #Beijing. In #China, the US faces an adversary potentially its equal in economic & military power intent on tearing down the American #GlobalOrder.
V. Putin has masterminded the killing of hundreds of thousands of Russians, an untold number of Ukrainians, the disruption of the global economy, and unimagined hardship among the Russian populace.
Two pro-Russian activists in Germany, whose ties to the Kremlin were revealed in a Reuters investigation last year, have left Germany and moved to Russia, the couple’s lawyer said in a statement on Monday. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Putin#EU#NATO
Americans who plan to vote for #TFG don't care that #Ukraine & some C's in the fmr Eastern bloc would lose to #Russia, but if they knew #democracy would be threatened here &...
Bulgarian MIN & others believe -a TFG win would result in a redrawing of the map of Europe -enable & embolden #Putin while weakening the NATO alliance *undoing of many of the gains that came to the West thru winning the Cold War & of many of the most impt. achievements forged in the wake of WWII. https://newrepublic.com/article/182170/former-eastern-bloc-terrified-trump-presidency
The New York Times traced how a web of politicians aligned with President Vladimir #Putin’s party carried out a campaign to permanently transfer Ukrainian children from #Kherson.
🚨Fascist leaders: Putin, Orbàn... say TFG is the victim of pol' persecution.
Rs in Congress used the opp. to echo Putin & Orbàn.
US: used to be an expert at #IrregularWarfare -use of propaganda, proxies, or ppl willing to betray their own country. #Putin supervised spying & propaganda ops in E Germany. He turned the tables on us -successfully used IW to help get #TFG into the WH & before 2020 election scaring Americans re Antifa... & now for the 2024 election.
Just spotted this gem in the NYTimes on the court case from a true expert on 'democracy':
Mr. Putin last year called the various proceedings against Mr. Trump political “persecution” and said they had revealed the “rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy.”
His spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, reiterated the point on Friday in response to the verdict, saying it was clear to the entire world that the U.S. authorities were trying to eliminate political rivals “by all possible legal and illegal means.”