From the Obozrevatel:
"Reality, Trump's Virtual World, and the Useful Idiots Manipulated by Putin
Igor Eisenberg, Blogger, Professor of Computer Science
12/10/202
In the real world, responsible politicians and government officials understand that stopping Putin and ending the war can only be achieved by significantly increasing military and financial aid to Ukraine and significantly increasing economic pressure on Russia...
In the real world, the 47th US President and his family are making billions of dollars selling cryptocurrency bubbles, receiving blatant bribes in the form of planes from Qatar, and funding the construction of Trump Towers and Trump Golf Clubs in various countries.
In the real world, the 47th President falls asleep in cabinet meetings, and his ministers tell him how brilliant he is.
And much more is happening in the real world around us.
Everyone can have their own virtual world. Everyone is free to invent something for themselves. Many people, who prefer to live in reality and think about how to improve reality if it is, to put it mildly, very far from ideal, may not have a virtual world at all.
A lot is happening in the virtual world of the 47th President of the United States. He generally prefers the virtual world to the real one. He even makes money from it by selling his virtual cryptocurrencies in the real world.
In the virtual world, he stopped eight wars (when giving interviews, he pulls out a piece of paper with a list from his pocket, because without the paper, he'd have stopped wars between Azerbaijan and Albania, Armenia and Cambodia), defeated inflation (but in the real world, he delays the release of official economic data so no one knows that prices are rising, but people are shopping in stores located in the real world, and prices in that real world are rising). In his virtual world, he prevented hurricanes and forced foreign countries to pay customs duties to the American treasury (though in the real world, American consumers pay them).
In the virtual world, the 47th president stops the war between Russia and Ukraine, saying that the "peace plan" drawn up by Ushakov is his "peace plan," that Putin agrees with him and wants to stop the war, but he's disappointed in Zelenskyy, who hasn't read his "peace plan," and, in his opinion, Ukraine isn't a democracy because it doesn't hold elections.
In the virtual world, many state leaders, so as not to spoil relations with the United States, participate in this virtual peacekeeping of his. He sends his friend and his son-in-law on a real-life visit to Moscow to listen to lectures on virtual history from Putin and virtual stories about the virtual billions they will earn once they start doing business with Russia.
And in the real world, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman published an article in the New York Times on December 4th titled America's Useful Idiots Manipulated Like Puppets by Putin.
In it, he wrote that... President Trump and his emissaries to Russia, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, sincerely want to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, but they are failing and will continue to fail as long as they cling to the naive belief that this is just a big real estate deal and that their real estate experience gives them an advantage... Yes, you could say that Vladimir Putin is involved in real estate in Ukraine, but not in the same way as Trump, Vitkoff, or Kushner. Putin is involved in real estate in Ukraine the same way Hitler was involved in real estate in Poland... So what has Trump done...? He cut off all American funding for American weapons to Ukraine, denied it access to critical weapons like Tomahawk cruise missiles that could have inflicted serious damage on Putin's own soil—and for which the Europeans would have paid—and brazenly lied, claiming that Ukraine, not Russia, started the war and that the Ukrainian leader, not the Russian one, is an illegitimate dictator. He also openly told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that "you have no cards" in the fight against Russia without American help. What if Trump had behaved like a worthy American president, acting in America's interests and in accordance with American values? He wouldn't have told the brave Ukrainians they had no cards; he would have handed them cards to maximize their influence, while loudly declaring to the Russian people that they had no future because Vladimir Putin had stolen all their cards... The job of the American president and vice president—if they understand what they're doing—is not to tell the Ukrainian president he has no "trump cards." Their job is to increase the pressure on Putin, including by telling the Russian people every day that their leader is stealing all their cards, their entire future, and the future of their children. This is precisely how we can increase our leverage to reach an acceptable, rather than a dirty, deal..."
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