Trump cannot be perceived as hysterical outgrowth, the words of which are not worth it, warns by the International Professor Volume Nichols in the column for The Atlantic. Before us is a person who has just clearly positioned himself as a friend of the Kremlin and the enemy of NATO.
Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States and a likely candidate from the Republican Party, said he would be on the side of Russia in the fight against NATO and encourages Russian President Vladimir Putin to handle our allies cruelly. Not so long ago, many Americans-and especially most Republicans-would consider anyone who supports such a point of view, nothing more than a crazy anti-American fanatic.
Trump expressed this crazy threat, telling one of his stories in the genre "Ser" - a rhetorical technique for which some unnamed interlocutor shows great respect for Trump, humbly addressing him for advice. In this style, he described a meeting that allegedly took place during his presidential office and at which he answered the ally to fund NATO.
Quote: "One of the presidents of the Great Country has stood up and said," Sir, if we do not pay and attaches Russia, will you protect us? " I said, "You didn't pay, have you overthrown?" He said, "Suppose it happened."
Before we consider the obvious recklessness and immorality of this statement, we first consider that such a dialogue has never been sure.
Trump's attitude to NATO is well known. He is in captivity of ignorance of ignorance, even after four years of being in power, that NATO is a kind of racketeer, within which our European allies come to Washington, like trembling shopkeepers, and make the local boss mafia from their weekly accounts. NATO funding, of course, does not work in this way, and although European leaders undoubtedly argued with Trump alone while he was president , it is unlikely that the leader of the Great State "got up" - allegedly at some audience in Trump - to ask him if he would stop the Russian invasion.
The fact that Trump apparently thinks that all this has been placed, it is already quite bad, and it indicates that his detachment from reality is becoming more and more stronger every day. (According to the writer from New Yorker Susan Glasser, Trump is "getting even more arrogant", and his comments today, even with the usual standards of his incendiary speeches, were "stunning"). In a country that is desperately arguing about the age and mental competence of the White House residents, Trump somehow manage to say things that are much more alarming than forgetting a name or date.
But let's leave the reputation of Trump as a serial liar who lives in the world of his own fantasies. Today's Trump's comments are much more dangerous than most of his usual alarming arrogance, and Americans should not allow this statement to pass so that she was just another unpleasant piece in a bitter stew, which Trump regularly presents to his believers.
Instead, we need to focus on a more horrible problem, a reality that exists regardless of the imaginary conversations of Trump: the leader of one of the two largest political parties of America has just made it clear to the Kremlin that in the event of election he would not only refuse to defend Europe, but also would be happy to support Vladimir Putin during the Third World War.
Americans not affected by the cult of Trump's personality - at least those who have preserved at least some ability to feel shock - should be stunned by such a betrayal of American principles and allies of America. Here, in the United States, we are used to treating Trump as an angry child, ignoring his outbreaks of anger, as parents ignore a baby who exclaims threats and affirms during a hysteric that hates mom and dad.
But other peoples do not see a young man; They see a person who once possessed the keys to the US nuclear arsenal and can again become commander -in -chief of the US Army. They watch him because they believe - and it should be: he exactly tells them what he will do if he returns to the office.
Trump representatives are likely to try to justify his statements, saying that he just played a rigid game with rebellious European lacquer. But anyone who watched Trump for a long time and his slave hobby of Putin knows the truth: Donald Trump will make the United States of the Kremlin's friend and NATO enemy. Putin knows that too, and after today, every American has to know it.
