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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJulia Ioffe: Moscow sees Trump "as a total idiot, a useful battering ram" against US elite & NATO
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Ran into an old source from Moscow here in Brussels and asked him how Moscow sees Trump. As a total idiot, a useful battering ram who goes after the American elite and NATO.
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Julia Ioffe: Moscow sees Trump "as a total idiot, a useful battering ram" against US elite & NATO (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jul 2018
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Against USA's elites?
LOL. Now Nato, yes.
emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)2. Something must have gotten lost in translation, lol
moondust
(19,917 posts)3. Chris Hayes showed a clip tonight
of some Russians on Russian TV chuckling at how Russia had hammered at NATO for years and now Trump is doing it for them.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)4. people in russia are absolutely amused by trumps
irrational behavior.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)5. Born in Moscow
So likely has real sources
unblock
(51,974 posts)6. Useful idiot. Indeed.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)7. Why I wonder RT media is even reported here on the DU.
Getting in by making fun of t-rump and GOPs while taken over. Not buying it.
Cha
(295,929 posts)8. Yep.. they're smarter than trump.. anybody is.