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President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is “objectively a Soviet or Russian agent,” reports Euronews.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/portuguese-president-calls-trump-soviet-or-1756408421.html

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    • psvrh@lemmy.caEnglish
      4114·
      25 days ago

      Trump was honeytrappable buffoon and business fuckup desperate for funding when the USSR was still a going concern.

      It’s completely possible.

            • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
              99·
              25 days ago

              Different ideologies Same bosses/corruption

              You think Putin isn’t were he is because of what the Soviet Union had before? He didn’t throw it all away

                • crimsonpoodle@pawb.socialEnglish
                  71·
                  25 days ago

                  Dude take a chill pill. Reverting to ad hominem is not very useful. Even if you, as I presume, are an ardent communist, you can understand that it’s no wonder that a former KGB agent is the dictator of Russia. Power in one form, even if it is corrupted from your idealist view of it, can very easily migrate to power in another form.

                  I think it’s a fair statement to say that those arguing that he could be a “Soviet” asset are meaning that he started as one, not that there is a super secret Soviet shadow government continuing 40 years post collapse.

                  But either way, why call your fellow human worthless? Shouldn’t, even if you view them as ignorant, your goal to be to raise them up? Talking things out is how we find truth. I think generally the ideals of communism, not talking of its implementation, represent a good amount of empathy at the macro level; so why not keep that empathy that you have for the micro level.

                  I hope you have a good day.

                  • Aria@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                    3·
                    25 days ago

                    Okay but Putin was nobody in the KGB. He had a high salary, knew more shady foreigners, he had some advantages sure, but it’s not like the rest of the KGB is who formed the new governments. His job was transcribing Nazi pub banter, essentially the spy version of a market analyst, and then he was fired for being a Nazi sympathiser.

                    On the worthless comment, it was very harsh, we shouldn’t talk that way about other people. But I did think it was funny and wouldn’t take it as a slight if directed at me, more just a funny way to express frustration.

        • psvrh@lemmy.caEnglish
          74·
          25 days ago

          Putin was a mid/upper KGB functionary.

          And that a very large number of the people who did very well put of the collapse of the USSR were former communist party officials who got in early on raiding the USSR’s corpse.

          Trump isn’t acting on behalf of the USSR in general, but he definitely is funded by and owes favours to older wealthy Russians.

          One older Russian, in particular.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        224·
        25 days ago

        Right as Soviet system was being pulled apart by Western aligned corporations and mafia cartels.

        Crazy coincidence.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      25 days ago

      It also says he’s a Russian asset in the title.
      You trying to be nitpicky about it also saying soviet doesn’t change the fact that the orange traitorous cunt is a putins’ little bitch.
      Doing the old trick of picking up on one little thing (that may be incorrect) to try to unravel everything else won’t change fuck all. tRUMP is a fucking russian stooge, just like you.