Donald Trump – Russia’s star recruit, 25 years in the making –
“Trump’s advance to the Oval Office had three stages, each of which depended upon American vulnerability and required American cooperation.”
From Timothy Snyder’s “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America”
“Trump’s advance to the Oval Office had three stages, each of which depended upon American vulnerability and required American cooperation.”
From Timothy Snyder’s “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America”
Donald Trump, star recruit –
“First – Russians had to transform a failed real estate developer into a recipient of their capital.
Second – this failed real estate developer had to portray, on American television, a successful businessman.”
– Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom
“First – Russians had to transform a failed real estate developer into a recipient of their capital.
Second – this failed real estate developer had to portray, on American television, a successful businessman.”
– Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom
Donald Trump, star recruit –
“Finally – Russia intervened with purpose and success to support the fictional character ‘Donald Trump, successful businessman’ in the 2016 presidential election.”
– Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom
“Finally – Russia intervened with purpose and success to support the fictional character ‘Donald Trump, successful businessman’ in the 2016 presidential election.”
– Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom
In the 2010’s “The men of Putin’s entourage ensured that the rule of law had no chance in Russia, since they themselves created and profited from a state monopoly on corruption.” – Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom
Putin's plan to rule Russia is also based on a “Christian Fascism” and sees “institutions and laws as the corrupt barriers between leader and folk that must be circumvented or destroyed.” – Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom.
“freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true & what they want to hear. Authoritarianism arrives not because people say they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts & desires”– Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom
“Moscow was attacking & Congress declined to defend..” “..crucial Republican legislators surrendered in advance to Russian cyberattack. It was more important to humiliate a black president than it was to defend the independence of the U.S.” – Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom
