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Fred Wellman: I think Trump is a superfan of Putin, the way he talks about him. He's savvy, so smart...either way, it's completely in appropriate for a former Pres. of the US to be so much a fan of a dictator invading Ukraine.
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Fred Wellman: Ruth Ben-Ghiat in her book, Strongmen, talked about Hitler's infatuation with Mussolini.
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Fred Wellman: Back in the day, you could be a politician without being a lunatic. Now you have to prove your loyalty to the party & who can be crazier. GOP candidates tear each other apart to prove their loyalty.
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Fred Wellman: It's disturbing to see people in power or formally in power cheering for Russia in the Russia/Ukraine war.
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Fred Wellman: If you are attacking the Pres. while he's coordinating an international coalition against Russia, it's mind-boggling. People have given up their loyalty to the US in the name of power, in the name of corruption.
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Fred Wellman: There's no interest in bringing America forward. I don't know if you saw that in Missouri they're trying to ban trans athletes from participating in female sports.
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Fred Wellman: Steve Bannon's partner is bankrupt now & shut down his GTV outlet.
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Fred Wellman: I don't know if you've noticed it or not, but the quality of my trolls has gone down. <laughs>
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Fred Wellman: The invasion of Ukraine exposes the authoritarian movement. We've had a worldwide authoritarian movement over the last 4-5 years, & Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows who sides with whom. RT going away is very important.
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Fred Wellman: These next few weeks will be interesting to see what happens. We're living in a critical moment of history.
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Fred Wellman: After East Germany fell, we found some interesting archives. It'll be curious to see what archives Russia has. I wonder what bullshit Tulsi Gabbard is hiding.
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Fred Wellman: A train ticket from St. Petersburg to Helsinki was $7500 today. There's thought that there'll be martial law in Russia & people want to escape.
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Fred Wellman: We're doing as much as we can in Eastern Europe short of combat. It's good to see. For years, the only tool we had in our toolbox was a hammer. It's nice to see the full complement of tools being used.
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Fred Wellman: The thing about being a combat veteran--I did 4 tours--I can say that even going in with the world's greatest military at the time, I didn't know how things would go. I think Putin's overestimated his war.
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