Anders Åslund
@anders_aslund
Economist & author. Russia, Ukraine & Eastern Europe. Read my latest book: "Russia's Crony Capitalism" https://amzn.to/2WgLENO
David Brooks: "A demagogue has come to power and is ripping everything down. But what’s likely to happen is that the demagogue will start making mistakes, because incompetence is built into the nihilistic project. Nihilists can only destroy, not build." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
AI: "The Know Nothing Party, also known as the American Party, was a prominent nativist political movement in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. It was characterized by its strong anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic sentiments."
This sounds disastrous for Zelensky. He had better save himself while he still can.
Zelensky finally speaks. And he digs in, claiming his move today to consolidate power and destroy independent investigative bodies was about purging Russian spies. “The anti-corruption infrastructure will operate. But only without Russian influences – everything must be cleansed…
Why don't @nytimes and all decent US media that still remain boycott dictator Trump? Let him self-publicize! Why accept his lies & abuse?
A statement regarding @WSJ
President Zelensky MUST veto the bill the Ukrainian Rada adopted today to subordinate the independent anticorruption bodies to the president. Otherwise Ukraine cannot start accession to the EU.
Obviously, Trump needs mental care.
BREAKING: Trump's mental state. “they have him stone cold, it was President Obama. It wasn't lots of people all over the place… the leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him?” This is objectively insane talk.
What an embarrassment for any country to have a president who cannot pronounce a true word - or a comprehensive sentence.
To be clear: not one word of this is true.
Trump is so Orwellian. If he says something, the opposite is true. What an embarrassment to the US to have become Orwellian!
MAGA Glossary: Transparency = Opacity
When Trump claims that something is a "hoax" it means that he knows that it is both true and embarrassing for him.
My interview with Times Radio July 21: "Putin faces 'existential' threat as Russian economic growth collapses over war in Ukraine" youtube.com/watch?v=v8hCY7…
In no way does Trump behave like an ally of Europe, Japan, South Korea or Canada, but as an enemy launching unwarranted trade wars with huge tariffs. Trump's only real ally appears to be Russia, on which he has imposed neither tariffs nor sanctions.
How pathetic every statement by Trump is. Aren't republicans embarrassed?
Trump: “People don’t explain to me, I explain to them!”
Incredible that Trump enjoys an average approval rating of as much as 45.8% in the US 7/6 - 7/18 according to authoritative Real Clear Politics Polling. Are so many Americans blind to the damage he is causes us all? realclearpolling.com/polls/approval…
It is quite extraordinary that the US is now ruled by an intellectual collapse called Trump. Sad that the US has no strong checks or balances.
Anyone notice that the White House seems to have given up on sending out "tariff letters"? They've got three-and-a-bit- weeks to send 166 letters, and they just took this week off.
US defamation and libel legislation are outrageous, favoring the rich at the expense of truth.
Breaking news: Court records show the US president filed a case against the WSJ’s parent companies News Corp and Dow Jones, two WSJ reporters and the newspaper’s owner. on.ft.com/4lEMnUH