{"id":27935,"date":"2016-07-29T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T03:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=27935"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:09:27","slug":"trump-the-traitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/trump-the-traitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump the traitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If Donald Trump were to become President, the United States would have a problem with many dimensions. So would the world.<\/p>\n

To begin with, the problem would be his unfathomable vulgarity. America has seen many things, but not a potential president discussing the size of his penis during a televised debate.<\/p>\n

The problem would also be his pathological hatred of women. In a 1992 conversation with architect Philip Johnson, reported in New York<\/em> magazine, he said, \u2018You have to treat \u2019em like shit.\u2019 He still views them as disgusting creatures, with\u2014as he said of Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly\u2014\u2018blood coming out of [their] wherever.\u2019<\/p>\n

The problem would also be his unabashed racism. This is a man who, according to his first wife, long kept a collection of Hitler\u2019s speeches on his bedside table, and who blithely calls blacks \u2018lazy,\u2019 derides Mexicans as \u2018rapists,\u2019 and judges Muslims collectively guilty for Islamist terrorism.<\/p>\n

The problem would be his anti-Semitism, too, lurking in table talk about not wanting his money counted by anyone other than \u2018little short guys that wear yarmulkes,\u2019 or in tweets emphasizing the comedian Jon Stewart\u2019s Jewishness, or in his angry remark last December to the Republican Jewish Coalition. \u2018You\u2019re not going to support me,\u2019 he said, \u2018because I don\u2019t want your money!\u2019<\/p>\n

The problem would be his gross lack of knowledge, not just of the world, but also of his own country. A few days before the referendum on Britain\u2019s continued membership in the European Union, he didn\u2019t know the meaning of the word \u2018Brexit.\u2019 This month, he showed that he doesn\u2019t know how many articles the US Constitution contains.<\/p>\n

But, most seriously and worryingly, the problem would be that the leader of the world\u2019s leading power would have a catalogue of simplistic ideas in the place of a geopolitical vision. And it is a catalogue that, despite Trump\u2019s promise to \u2018Make America Great Again,\u2019 would undermine US prosperity and security.<\/p>\n

Consider his idea, floated in early March and probably inspired by his private bankruptcies, of renegotiating the US national debt. The idea was idiotic (the American government, which holds a monopoly on issuing the world\u2019s leading reserve currency, has nothing to \u2018renegotiate\u2019). But had Trump been in power when he proposed it, the consequences would have been devastating: an immediate hike in interest rates; a tanking dollar; and a breach of confidence between the US (now seen as behaving like Argentina or Greece) and everyone else.<\/p>\n

Or consider his statement, during his nomination acceptance speech in Cleveland, that, if elected, he would revise NATO\u2019s policy of automatic support for threatened members of the Alliance. In the world according to Trump, Russia would then be able to follow through on its threat to reexamine the legality of the process that led to the Baltic states\u2019 independence. It would be free to adjust its border with one neighbor or come to the rescue of a Russian-speaking minority \u2018held hostage\u2019 by another. It could invade Poland or, of course, Ukraine. And why would Russia stop with NATO and its neighbors? It could pick a fight with Japan or any other Western allies in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

And then of course there is Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, whose praises Trump never misses an occasion to sing. As he once told CNN\u2019s Larry King (while promoting his bestseller Think Big and Kick Ass<\/em>), Putin is a great leader who did a \u2018great job … rebuilding Russia.\u2019 In September 2013, he described as a \u2018masterpiece\u2019 a commentary signed by Putin in the New York Times<\/em> that criticized US policy in Syria. In September 2015, after almost two years of a Cold War-like standoff over Ukraine, he told Fox News that Putin deserved an \u2018A\u2019 for leadership.<\/p>\n

The truth is that Trump\u2019s personal ties with Russia are old and close. They date from the time in the early 2000s, when Trump, having been blacklisted by US banks, turned to Russian investors to finance projects in Toronto, SoHo, and Panama.<\/p>\n

And reports are beginning to surface of a galaxy of influences and interests that formed around him at that time for his benefit: a firmament of Gazprom directors, former lobbyists for Ukrainian dictator Viktor Yanukovych (including Paul Manafort, now Trump\u2019s campaign manager), and prominent organized-crime figures.<\/p>\n

Some observers, like Franklin Foer, regard<\/a> Trump as \u2018Putin\u2019s puppet.\u2019 Others, like George Stephanopoulos, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, speculate about possible organic links between Trump\u2019s campaign and the Russian regime.<\/p>\n

And now the Russians appear to be behind the leak, two days before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, of 19,252 email messages detailing how Democratic Party leaders favored Hillary Clinton over her rival, Bernie Sanders. Worse, Trump then suborned cyberespionage by a foreign power against his opponent: \u2018Russia, if you\u2019re listening,\u2019 he told<\/a> a press conference, \u2018I hope you\u2019re able to find 30,000 emails that are missing.\u2019<\/p>\n

The implications of Trump\u2019s election would be truly terrifying. The problem would not only be his vulgarity, sexism, racism, and defiant ignorance. It would be his possible infidelity<\/em> to America itself. The party of Eisenhower and Reagan has been commandeered by a corrupt demagogue who betrays not only his country\u2019s ideals, but also its fundamental national interest.<\/p>\n

American vertigo. Global disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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