A younger, thinner, almost-handsome Donald Trump, newly wed to his beautiful Czech wife, being wined and dined by the inscrutable men of the KGB! It is certainly an irresistible theory—perhaps because it feels so karmic—payback time to the US for all the times the CIA has carried out 'regime change' around the world—to find that whatever goes around has come around, and that they are now lumped with a head of state carefully picked, groomed and backed by the Russians.
You can almost hear the best screenwriters in Hollywood spitting on their hands as they sit before their laptops to hammer out the blockbuster film—‘Our Man in DC, perhaps, or, ‘Agent Trump’, or inspired by a recent article in The Observer, ‘Putin’s Bitch’. Anyway, even if Trump isn’t a stooge but just a white-supremacist fanboy with a massive Putin crush, there was no need for him and J.D. Vance to launch a ‘peace through rudeness’ offensive.
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