Ex-president’s support for the Russian strongman has experts fretting over American interests and security sources overseas
Donald Trump’s continuing lavish praise and support for Russian president Vladimir Putin are fueling alarm among former intelligence officials and other experts who fear another Trump presidency would benefit Moscow and harm American democracy and interests overseas.
Trump praised Putin as a “genius” and “pretty savvy” when Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, and has boasted he would end the war in a “day”, sparking critics’ fears that if he’s elected again Trump would help Russia achieve a favorable peace deal by cutting off aid to Kyiv. Trump also recently greenlit Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to Nato members who don’t pay enough to the alliance.
“Trump views Putin as a strongman,” said Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution and a national security official in the first two years of Trump’s administration. “In a way they’re working in parallel because they’re both trying to weaken the US, but for very different reasons.”
More recently, instead of criticizing Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure, who the Kremlin once tried to kill with poison, and who died suddenly last month in an Arctic penal colony, Trump weirdly equated the four criminal prosecutions he faces with Navalny’s fate as political prisoners.
So how on earth is it possible to elect a well known and blatantly obvious national security risk as president? I guess national security is only important when it comes to persecuting people who question the system.
This is literally the reason the electoral college is a thing…
In case a con man and convicted fraudster like Trump won, the electoral college is supposed to over rule the voters.
That’s why it’s not a straight popular vote.
Instead the convicted fraudster is able to use the system to override the popular vote.
Our political system is inherently fucked and better systems have become common in the last 200 years. But no one with power in the current system would change it and risk losing power.
The electoral college was created so the slaver states could get political representation for the slaves without giving them the vote. Everything else is after the fact rationalisation.
Slavery played a big part in lots of our government…
But ignoring every factor and saying “it was slavery” just makes people ignorant of everything else that we need to keep looking out for.
If it was just the votes, they didn’t need third party delegates who awarded delegate votes.
Each states popular vote could be used to determine how many “votes” they got by number of elected representatives.
Adding in those non elected people to vote for the “real” election was a safety switch in case the people did something stupid, the delegates didn’t have to listen them.
I just didn’t want to type all that at first, because it’s way to in depth for a random social media comment.
Just because people leave something out, doesn’t mean it’s because they forgot to mention it.
Right, because why wouldn’t it go away if it was all about slavery. It is still doing its job.
That’s the thing, it’s not doing it’s job.
It’s sole justification for existing was to prevent someone like trump, instead he tried (and almost succeeded) at highjacking it and claiming other people were the elctorals because they supported him.
There is literally zero reason for it to keep existing
Ahh. I see your point.
Well you see, it’s only it’s proffered reason for existing. In actuality, it only serves to subvert democracy.
Everyone is corruptible, which is exactly why elevated positions cannot be created just to protect elevated positions. The only thing that can ultimately do regardless of who’s running it is disenfranchise the people.
Because some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses.