Billionaires, Bagmen, and Thieves
This week has shown that the plot to install Trump as President was the greatest success of foreign espionage in history, writes American political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda
Everyone needs to forget everything they think they know about Donald Trump and just see him as Vladimir Putin sees him. As a useful idiot that can destroy America from the inside. And Trump is just one of many useful idiots working for Kremlin interests.
As I have written many times in this column, Russia is at war with the West – not just Ukraine, but all of Western civilization. It spreads its cancer of subversion, coercion, deception — using propaganda, cyberwar, and paid influencers.
Because we failed in the West to fight back against modern warfare, criminals, felons, rapists, and thieves now lead multiple countries in alignment with the objectives of Putin, himself a criminal, and other foreign autocrats.
Trump for President was a Russian initiative, dating back to the 1980s, when Trump — upon his return from his first trip to Moscow — placed $100,000 worth of newspaper ads attacking NATO. He flirted with running for President in the decades before coming down the escalator of Trump Tower in 2015 to a crowd paid to cheer his announcement.
Step by step, the Russians deployed ancient Soviet methods to get their man into the White House.
“Putin is just another Tsar,” geopolitical analyst Dr Michael MacKay told me. “When he dies or is overthrown another dictator will emerge in Russia. But while he’s there, remember he’s a KGB man and not a military leader. That means he always practices Chekist warfare — what we loosely call ‘hybrid warfare’.
