Russia lauds Trump's perception of old europe as the threat

[applegrove]

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”

Read that again.

— Kye (@gxldsociety.bsky.social) 2025-12-29T20:10:36.766Z

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Oh, look. Putin's giving his lapdog a big bone. Anyone who loves the United States should be so ashamed of our traitor

president.

[surfered]

2. Old Europe came to our aid after 9/11. Russia invades its neighbors.

1968: Soviet Union attacks
Czechoslovakia
1979: Soviet Union attacks
Afghanistan
1992: Russia attacks Georgia
1992: Russia attacks Moldova
1994: Russia attacks Chechnya
1999: Russia attacks Chechnya
2008: Russia attacks Georgia
2014: Russia attacks Ukraine
2025: Russia attacks Syria
2022: Russia attacks Ukraine,
attempts to take Kyiv

[no_hypocrisy]

3. The "Old Europe/New Europe" thing goes back farther than Trump.

I remember when Donald Rumsfeld minimalized western NATO countries in Europe and promoted what he called "New Europe" (former eastern block countries like Poland, Romania, etc.), worthy of more U.S. aid and investment in January, 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Europe_and_New_Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/24/germany.france

https://www.rferl.org/a/1102012.html

[tavernier]

4. Trump knows European leaders laugh at him behind his back.

Putin is more clever; he never lets Donald see him laughing the loudest. He knows all of Trump’s insecurities and plays him like a fiddle.