felix stalder on Nostr: I think this Russian assessment of Trump's historical role is pretty interesting, ...
I think this Russian assessment of Trump's historical role is pretty interesting, even if I would read less into films like "Civil War".
But that Trump could be like Gorbachev, seen by the Russian state as somebody whose incompetent reforms brought down an empire, has something to it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/putin-trump-russia-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk4.LBIO.r7bOEgVH12VR&smid=url-share
I even wrote a longish paper about it once, though not referring to Trump, but to structural similarities between late Soviet Union and the contemporary US:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00027642221092799
But that Trump could be like Gorbachev, seen by the Russian state as somebody whose incompetent reforms brought down an empire, has something to it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/putin-trump-russia-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk4.LBIO.r7bOEgVH12VR&smid=url-share
I even wrote a longish paper about it once, though not referring to Trump, but to structural similarities between late Soviet Union and the contemporary US:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00027642221092799