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President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is “objectively a Soviet or Russian agent,” reports Euronews.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/portuguese-president-calls-trump-soviet-or-1756408421.html

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  • psvrh@lemmy.caEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    Trump was honeytrappable buffoon and business fuckup desperate for funding when the USSR was still a going concern.

    It’s completely possible.

          • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            2 months ago

            Different ideologies Same bosses/corruption

            You think Putin isn’t were he is because of what the Soviet Union had before? He didn’t throw it all away

              • crimsonpoodle@pawb.socialEnglish
                6·
                2 months ago

                Dude take a chill pill. Reverting to ad hominem is not very useful. Even if you, as I presume, are an ardent communist, you can understand that it’s no wonder that a former KGB agent is the dictator of Russia. Power in one form, even if it is corrupted from your idealist view of it, can very easily migrate to power in another form.

                I think it’s a fair statement to say that those arguing that he could be a “Soviet” asset are meaning that he started as one, not that there is a super secret Soviet shadow government continuing 40 years post collapse.

                But either way, why call your fellow human worthless? Shouldn’t, even if you view them as ignorant, your goal to be to raise them up? Talking things out is how we find truth. I think generally the ideals of communism, not talking of its implementation, represent a good amount of empathy at the macro level; so why not keep that empathy that you have for the micro level.

                I hope you have a good day.

      • psvrh@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Putin was a mid/upper KGB functionary.

        And that a very large number of the people who did very well put of the collapse of the USSR were former communist party officials who got in early on raiding the USSR’s corpse.

        Trump isn’t acting on behalf of the USSR in general, but he definitely is funded by and owes favours to older wealthy Russians.

        One older Russian, in particular.