Trump was right, saying Putin would not...

[Septua]

..have invaded Ukraine if he was President. He was in the process of giving Ukraine to Putin.

(The article is a year old.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-russia-putin/2020/10/24/4edb462e-13bb-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html

"Why Trump’s America has been a ‘gift’ to Putin"

"Under President Trump, the United States has abandoned international climate and nuclear arms agreements. It has announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, questioned the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and antagonized stalwart allies like Germany.

America’s past presidents have long promoted democracy, human rights and the rule of law abroad, yet Trump instead has waged an assault on those values at home, where he has weakened institutions, shredded norms and declared without evidence that the upcoming election will be “rigged.”

America’s moral authority also has been undercut by the devastatingly high death toll and wrenching economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the racial reckoning that has convulsed the country."

"These highlights from Trump’s nearly four years in office read like Vladimir Putin’s wish list. Few countries have benefited more geopolitically from Trump’s time in office than Russia."


"Russia’s longtime aim has been to undermine trust in democratic systems of government around the world, and the United States with Trump at the helm has proved an ideal model to advance that goal.

“This president has been the most extraordinary gift to the Kremlin,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. “Across every field, in terms of America’s standing in the world, in terms of America’s cohesion at home, no president has done more to damage the United States or to advantage the Kremlin than Donald Trump. That will be his lasting legacy.”"

“One of Putin’s primary objectives is to utterly discredit democracy as a model, and on that he’s getting an A-plus because in Donald Trump, you have a would-be authoritarian who is deliberately and overtly taking a wrecking ball to the underpinnings of our democracy,” said Susan E. Rice, a former ambassador to the United Nations and national security adviser in the Obama administration.

[KurtSteiner]

1. They don't even hide their sympathies

The Republicans don't even hide their fascist/authoritarian sympathies anymore...

[Irish_Dem]

2. The GOP has sold us out.

Putin gives the GOP money and secret intelligence to get them elected. The GOP gives Putin whatever he wants.

The GOP gets permanent total power, access to US assets, white minority rule, control over women and minorities. The wealthy pay no taxes.

Putin gets western democracies greatly weakened. Russian and China can rise to power. First Ukraine, then Taiwan.