Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump and ever more never ending Trump.
What's missing from your analysis, and that of the Americans polled, is any mention of China.
It's been American policy at least since the Obama administration to pivot America's attention to the East. How is that supposed to happen if America remains eternally bogged down in never ending European and Middle East wars?
You do at least mention the EU, though you don't explain why America should be "equally responsible" for defending Ukraine, when the EU is FIVE TIMES RICHER THAN RUSSIA, and currently possesses many military resources which could be brought to Ukraine's aid immediately. Why is everyone focused on Trump, when the EU has consistently failed to take responsibility for the defense of it's own continent for decades, and that is a key reason the Ukraine war happened in the first place?
I assume the polling is correct. I can see that right here on Substack, where the thinking of both experts and citizens alike seems stuck in the 20th century, and hopelessly distracted by Trump's ugly personality.
Russia is no longer the primary threat to freedom. Russia is now a crumbling corrupt mafia state which has been struggling for 3 years to advance on it's much smaller neighbor. The primary focus of Russia's mafia leadership is steadily bleeding the Russian people dry and hiding the stolen money in offshore bank accounts. The Kremlin will be lucky if the entire country doesn't unravel in to a collection of smaller states.
The primary threat to freedom in the 21st century is China, the largest dictatorship in world history, with twice as many people as the US and EU combined. The longer we remain distracted from that threat by the Trump/Putin melodrama, the harder that challenge will be to meet.
The issue becomes, what if they are never planning to have another free and fair election? Then what the public wants doesn’t really matter. I fear that is where we are headed.
I lived four years in Russia. They have elections but everyone knows they won’t change anything. Usually when previously democratic countries fall into autocracy there is some deep financial crisis that precipitates it. That is not the case here. People are willingly foresaking democracy for no obvious reason.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump and ever more never ending Trump.
What's missing from your analysis, and that of the Americans polled, is any mention of China.
It's been American policy at least since the Obama administration to pivot America's attention to the East. How is that supposed to happen if America remains eternally bogged down in never ending European and Middle East wars?
You do at least mention the EU, though you don't explain why America should be "equally responsible" for defending Ukraine, when the EU is FIVE TIMES RICHER THAN RUSSIA, and currently possesses many military resources which could be brought to Ukraine's aid immediately. Why is everyone focused on Trump, when the EU has consistently failed to take responsibility for the defense of it's own continent for decades, and that is a key reason the Ukraine war happened in the first place?
I assume the polling is correct. I can see that right here on Substack, where the thinking of both experts and citizens alike seems stuck in the 20th century, and hopelessly distracted by Trump's ugly personality.
Russia is no longer the primary threat to freedom. Russia is now a crumbling corrupt mafia state which has been struggling for 3 years to advance on it's much smaller neighbor. The primary focus of Russia's mafia leadership is steadily bleeding the Russian people dry and hiding the stolen money in offshore bank accounts. The Kremlin will be lucky if the entire country doesn't unravel in to a collection of smaller states.
The primary threat to freedom in the 21st century is China, the largest dictatorship in world history, with twice as many people as the US and EU combined. The longer we remain distracted from that threat by the Trump/Putin melodrama, the harder that challenge will be to meet.
The issue becomes, what if they are never planning to have another free and fair election? Then what the public wants doesn’t really matter. I fear that is where we are headed.
I lived four years in Russia. They have elections but everyone knows they won’t change anything. Usually when previously democratic countries fall into autocracy there is some deep financial crisis that precipitates it. That is not the case here. People are willingly foresaking democracy for no obvious reason.