Russians Think Triumphant Trump Is More Their Man Than Ever

[steve2470]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-acquitted-is-more-russias-trump-than-ever

Dmitry Kiselyov, the host of Russia’s popular Sunday news program Vesti Nedeli, said, “Democrats are openly raging, but while they’re licking their wounds, Trump can now objectively afford to pursue a more positive course of action toward Russia—just as he planned all along while being elected for the first term.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent invitation to Trump to attend Victory Day festivities in Moscow this spring is designed to bring the U.S. president ever deeper into the Kremlin fold. Appearing on Sunday Evening With Vladimir Soloviev, politician Sergey Stankevich asserted, “Donald Trump has to come to Moscow in May, no doubt about it. He is obligated to be here.”

Expecting concessions from Trump, the Russian state media are playing along with his agenda, attacking Democrats, the Ukraine whistleblower, and impeachment witnesses. Vesti Nedeli described the ouster of the Vindman brothers as Trump “settling the scores” against those who dared to speak up against him. It repeated a previously debunked conspiracy theory baselessly claiming Yevgeny Vindman was assigned to review former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book manuscript before “leaking the draft to the press.”

Pundits on Vladimir Soloviev’s show appeared practically giddy about Trump’s acquittal and the retaliatory onslaught that followed. “Trump pulled out a machine gun and started to purge everyone who ever said a bad word about him,” exclaimed Dmitry Egorchenkov, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts, “because in his mythologized world, he is now a superhero.”

[empedocles]

1. Right in our face. Yet . . .

[Vogon_Glory]

2. In the coming months, let's remember to ask our bellowing blowhard ex-Cold Warriors

if they still think that being tools of the Kremlin is a bad thing, or if has become OK because Donnie (blah, blah, blah).

As much as I loathed the right-wing mindset, up until 2016, I used to believe I could give them grudging credit for being American patriots. After seeing Donnie's claque within the White House and the deafening silence on the topic from the right-wing propaganda organs outside it, I think it's time to raise the question as to whether the Right has traded in genuine American patriotism for white tribalism.