Donald Trump's New World Disorder
In her latest Hot Type column, Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on the alarming new global 'cold alliance' colluding to tip Western democracies into ruin
Historians led us to believe that the Cold War ended in 1989, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom from tyranny washed like a tidal wave over the Eastern Bloc.
The most passionate resistors of World War II had lived for four decades under industrial brutality and finally got to taste the freedom they had earned.
In America, there was a feeling of relief — at long last we could turn our attention away from the klaxons and fallout shelters.
In Washington, a young Attorney General named William Barr, under President George H.W. Bush decided to repurpose agents away from Russia to focus on the crack cocaine epidemic.
Rather than do what had been done after every major world conflict for 500 years — occupy the defeated until their ideology is severed — we took our eye off the Soviets and failed to notice that the KGB had not lost the Cold War.
“The KGB didn’t stop,” Craig Unger told me after the publication of his book, American Kompromat. “The KGB went into hibernation, and it had very clever ways of resurfacing later on, plowing tens of billions of dollars into the West.”
A keen interest was taken by Russian intelligence in a bankruptcy-plagued New York businessman and sometime actor named Donald Trump, said Unger, an investigative reporter who has documented Trump’s ties to Russian money for decades.
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