[…] concerns a US banker who in a meeting with one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought […]
[PDF file]: […] the U.S. as ‘the 11 Marshall’s note at the end of that paragraph is this: 18. Barrett, Trump, 131, 195–201; Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (New York: Dutton, 2018), 24–25; Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Trump Swam in Mob-infested Waters in Early Years […]
[PDF file]: […] Russia is a model for the type of pure nation that White Christian Nationalists want. (p. 125) The enthusiasm with which the Christian Right came to regard Putin fed into their support for Trump. They wanted an autocratic strongman to restore white Christian America with democracy very much destined for the bin. Viktor Orban […]
[…] Russia is a model for the type of pure nation that White Christian Nationalists want. (p. 125) The enthusiasm with which the Christian Right came to regard Putin fed into their support for Trump. They wanted an autocratic strongman to restore white Christian America with democracy very much destined for the bin. Viktor Orban […]
[PDF file]: […] between the USA and China is becoming less and less as years go by, with Trump an open admirer of the top-down management skills of Xi and Putin. Which brings us to a discussion of managerialism. Martin Parker, a Reader in Social and Organizational Theory, in his 2002 book, Against Management,14 10 See . […]
[PDF file]: […] not the murderous, totalitarian ‘Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow’s invasion’ 44 15 kleptocracy that Russia is today.45 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,46 what kind of […]
[PDF file]: […] the nomination, they became ‘the purest strain of Never Trumpism’. (p. 35) Saldin and Teles enumerate their objections to a Trump Presidency: ‘He praised dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. He expressed admiration for brutal authoritarian crackdowns in North Korea and Tiananmen Square. He accused George W Bush of the treasonous offense of […]
[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today.27 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,28 what kind of […]
[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today.24 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,25 what kind of […]
[PDF file]: […] from reaching the border’. And he sat and listened on Air Force One while Trump ‘lavished praise on America’s adversaries and foreign dictators, waxing poetic about Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’. He longed for the same power that these dictators possessed and fantasised about invoking ‘the Insurrection Act, allowing him to impose a version […]
