Yale historical past professor Timothy Snyder on Wednesday broke down how Russian President Vladimir Putin is utilizing former U.S. President Donald Trump’s mounting authorized woes to keep up his grip on energy.
Snyder, an knowledgeable on authoritarianism, defined to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell how Soviet and Russian dictators have without end looked for examples from U.S. life that would tarnish America’s picture with Russian residents.
Putin this week mentioned the a number of authorized circumstances towards Trump are the “persecution of a political rival.”
Snyder defined Putin’s motive:
“What Putin is attempting to do essentially is say, ‘Everyone seems to be as dangerous as us. The rule of regulation is a joke in all places. America is not any higher than Russia.’ That’s his elementary line. He needs to assume that there isn’t a freedom, there’s no democracy, there’s nothing to worth wherever.”
Russia “actually would really like” Trump to win the 2024 election, added Snyder, as a result of they imagine it might “critically weaken” America and Trump would enable them to win their struggle in Ukraine.
