Trump has been very successful at persuading his fans that the people who hate him hate them too, and that he is all that stands between his people and their enemies.
Don't underestimate Putin's ability to exploit the same dynamic. Which Biden just endorsed before his handlers walked it back.
Trump has been very successful at persuading his fans that the people who hate him hate them too, and that he is all that stands between his people and their enemies.
Don't underestimate Putin's ability to exploit the same dynamic. Which Biden just endorsed before his handlers walked it back.
It's all very well for Westerners to indulge themselves (again) with fantasies of the End of History in Russia while aggravating the latter's centuries old inferiority-induced paranoia, but as long as they aren't willing to put their missiles where their mouths are (for obvious reasons) it might behoove them to show rhetorical restraint.
Trump has been very successful at persuading his fans that the people who hate him hate them too, and that he is all that stands between his people and their enemies.
Don't underestimate Putin's ability to exploit the same dynamic. Which Biden just endorsed before his handlers walked it back.
It's all very well for Westerners to indulge themselves (again) with fantasies of the End of History in Russia while aggravating the latter's centuries old inferiority-induced paranoia, but as long as they aren't willing to put their missiles where their mouths are (for obvious reasons) it might behoove them to show rhetorical restraint.