The Kremlin Is Starting to Worry About Trump

[HAB911]

Vladimir Putin's entourage cheered the outcome of the U.S. election – until they saw exactly what they were dealing with.

In 2016, a senior Russian official explained to a group of visiting foreigners why the government had decided not to celebrate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Yes, it was a turning point in Russian history, he argued, and, yes, President Vladimir Putin sees today’s Russia as a successor to both the tsars and the Bolsheviks. But celebrating a revolution would send the wrong message to society. The Kremlin today is staunchly opposed to “regime change,” the visitors were told, and thus skittish about eulogizing 1917. It plans to use the centenary, instead, to draw attention to the catastrophic consequences of resorting to revolution to solve social and political problems.

The last thing the Russian government expected was that 2017 would bring it face to face not with a revolution of the past but with a revolution of the present — the radical regime change taking place in the United States as a result of the electoral victory of Donald Trump. It is Trump’s electoral revolution that has captured the imagination, and fanned the fears, of Russian elites today.

The search for a key to Trump’s mind-boggling and miscellaneous gusher of policy directives has tended to focus on his disturbingly erratic, vindictive, simplistic, narcissistic, insecure, and occasionally delusional personality, due exception being made for those conspiracy theorists who treat him as a kind of Manchurian candidate or sock puppet of the Kremlin. What most observers have been late to recognize is the extent to which, behind his mask as a showman, Trump views himself as a revolutionary insurgent with a mission to dismantle America’s “old regime.”

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/13/the-kremlin-is-starting-to-worry-about-trump/

[mucifer]

1. buyer's remorse

so sad

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "Trump views himself as a revolutionary insurgent"

l would disagree with this assessment. I really don't think he is any "revolutionary" anything. I.e., "revolutionaries" traditionally want a change for a society. In Drumpf's case, he only wants a change of environment for himself, and himself only, and mainly to operate in a way that is beneficial to him - and to hell with anyone else.

What they miss is all the "hangers-on" around Drumpf who want to remake this country into something else, and mostly in nefarious ways.

[Progressive dog]

3. The psycopathic viceroy of

the criminal Kremlin enterprise is acting to further Putin's interests. He praises Putin at every opportunity and attacks the pillars of American foreign policy that are a threat to Putin. Trump is not erratic about his love for all things Putin.

[HAB911]

4. Abe says Trump encouraged him to boost ties, dialogue with Putin

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/14/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-says-trump-encouraged-boost-ties-dialogue-putin/

[Drahthaardogs]

5. Better check your coffee cup Donnie-Boy

When Vlad feels the heat, plutonium ends up in coffee mugs. If I were you, I would not send him any more invites. If you do, only order a Coke and make sure you open the can yourself 😂

[meow2u3]

6. The Kremlin underestimated some major things

It's the unwillingness of the American people as a whole to accept being ruled by a tyrant instead of being governed by consent. The people are having none of this Russian attempt to overthrow constitutional democracy, as flawed as it may be.

Putin didn't count on the press pushing back against the Tramp regime's endless pack of lies, propaganda, and attempts to threaten them and the "old regime" into submission.

[Nitram]

7. Interesting analysis.

[Xolodno]

8. I don't believe it was Putin's intention...

...to get Trump elected.

Just cause enough mischief for Clinton to where she we be too preoccupied with the party, Congress and domestic issues to exert any significant attention to Russia.

But Comey had other plans...