Krasnov is reportedly the code name that was assigned to failed businessman Donald Trump when he was visting in Russia with his first wife in the 1980’s, where he became Russian asset Trump. As we have observed over the years, starting in 2016 with the smoking gun of election interference and Cambridge Analytica, Trump is both impressed by and under the thumb of Vladimir Putin. This video does two things: it’s a perfect rejoinder to Trump’s perfectly tasteless and tactless Trump Gaza video from last week and it is a commentary on how thoroughly Moscow’s talons are in Washington affairs. We are at a real bottom in our history as a nation.
Color the U.S. defense industry dead. That’s one of the first things Comrade Krasnov took care of.
Donald Trump cut off intelligence sharing and weapons systems with Ukraine this week, another sop to his Russian master. Many U.S. systems, like HIMARS, can now be remotely disabled or limited. Musk is threatening to shut down Starlink, so Eutelsat is rapidly replacing Elon’s systems.
No one will ever buy a U.S. system that can be switched off by President Petulant. He’s turning American defense contractors into pariahs, another step on the road to destroying an entire U.S. industrial sector.
Kharoshaya rabota, tovarishch Krasnov!
There’s never been a better time to learn Russian than now. And the defense industry isn’t the only thing to be run into the ground. Foreign policy generally is smashed and Marco Rubio is going to go down in history as the most ineffectual Secretary of State in history. Or worse, depending how bad things get.
Yesterday, we learned that Marco Rubio’s State Department canceled four crucial aid programs that sustained the fragile chain of freedom in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. These programs helped dissidents, political prisoners, and grassroots democracy activists fight against brutal regimes.
Now, they’re gone.
Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, built his political brand on opposing Latin American dictators and championing the fight against communism. From his earliest days in the Florida State House to the U.S. Senate, he was an articulate and passionate critic of oppressive regimes in Havana, Caracas, and Managua.
Yet today, his own State Department has declared that supporting those fighting for freedom is no longer in America’s national interest. This is part of the larger USAID purge conducted under Elon Musk’s malignant influence, but these cuts should have mattered to Marco Rubio personally. If he still had a shred of integrity, he would have fought to protect these programs or resigned.
Instead, his pathetic obedience to Donald Trump has led him to betray those risking everything for liberty.
The men and women on the front lines of these battles face immediate danger—prison, torture, death—for daring to resist authoritarian rule. These aid programs were a thin, fragile lifeline in oppressed nations, much like the support that has now been strangled for Ukraine’s fight against Putin’s invasion.
I once believed Marco Rubio’s commitment to freedom and international order was real.
I was wrong.
Like so many others in Trump’s orbit, he has become a whimpering, spineless shell of a man, too afraid to stand up to oppression, even when it threatens the very people and country from which his own family fled.
I’m not naïve. I’ve spent my life in politics. I’ve seen power corrupt and a long chain of men and women compromise their values.
But I never thought I’d see Marco Rubio—of all people—capitulate so abjectly. Once the heir to John McCain’s legacy, he has now joined Lindsey Graham as just another pathetic servant to Trump’s global surrender to communism or its modern kleptocratic successor.
And what of the Cuban and Venezuelan communities in Florida who were told that a vote for Joe Biden was a vote for Castro? What of those who believed Trump’s empty rhetoric of “No soy comunista”? Many in the Venezuelan community are now finding their Temporary Protected Status revoked, facing deportation back to the very regime they fled.
I have no sympathy for anybody who voted for Trump. Anybody who believes his lies deserves to get burned. The tragic part of this is that if you just look at Rubio you see that he knows he’s screwed. He looks like a whipped dog these days. Trump trolled him at the joint session of Congress address. It was an embarrassment.
And that is only going to increase. Rubio will soon find himself in a position where he either sticks up for American (and what used to be his own) values or he becomes a complete joke in the world. The best thing that could happen to Rubio is that he asserts himself ala Jeff Sessions in Trump 1.0 and finds himself replaced.
At least then he can save some face for another battle, another day.
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Love the video.
Will anyone outside The USA buy F35s, F16s, F15s, or P8s, or Hercules aircraft, or Sikorsky helicopters.
Canada was going to be buying F35s, several $ Billion worth.
Australia was going to be buying over a $ Trillion of submarines.
Not now.
And the Canadian boycott of anything American, specially red state American is going worldwide.
Tesla sales are down more than 80% in some markets and about 50% worldwide.
Trump’s real legacy is the loss of America’s good name, business power, and influence in the world.
The costs of which will now be amortised over the next several decades.