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> How did Trump aid Russia? Leaked US secrets with the Russian Ambassador. Secrets that cost years of political capital with Israel that had gotten those secre
by Arkhaine_kupo 3y ago
> How did Trump aid Russia?
Leaked US secrets with the Russian Ambassador. Secrets that cost years of political capital with Israel that had gotten those secrets. The leaked info included the name and face of a israeli spy still inside ISIS putting his life at risk. He also did not tell about this meeting to US media and the media found out after Russian gov sources posted photos of trump and 2 senior russian members giggling together in the white house
Eased sanctions on multiple Russian oligarchs such as Deripaska. Also planned on removing multiple sanctions on high end tech for Russia.
Told the international community he believed Crimea was Russian, despite Ukraine still claiming it as theirs. Also froze US aide to Ukraine which helped bost russian mobilisation before the invasion.
In terms of PR, he publically praised Putin multiple times, defended the Russian Syrian invassion, he defended russian allied states like Belarus over the EU. Dismished condeming russian attacks and the poisoning of UK citizens. Hired Manafort, a guy condemed for running pro russian campaigns in Ukraine, as his campaign manager. Publically sided with Russia over US intelligence sources that claimed Russia was using the taliban to kill american soldiers.
So how has Trump aided russia in summary: Reduced sanctions, shared classified info, talked them up internationally, hired their propaganda internationally to run his campaign and sided with russian sources over us intelligence in multiple PR nightmares.
Seems pretty straight forward.
- saiya-jin 3y agoHe for sure admires effective cruel dictators. You can add MBS on that list, he bragged pretty openly about 'saving his ass', which even from common media looked exactly like that. I am sure he did some good stuff, but he made sure its extremely easy to hate him by often behaving like a childish diva. Oh and for anybody in US - basically whole world outside, apart maybe from few friendly dictatorships like russia or saudi arabia, hated him during his presidency. Kind of 'insult your basic intelligence and human decency in 2 easy steps' guy. But current pro-russian, anti-covid etc crowd liked him a lot (when you are getting manipulated like a marionette I guess it doesn't matter if from east or west)