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MAR
18
Trump, Putin, Ukraine, and the future of the GOP
By:
Michael E. Ross
on
MAR
18
THAT RELATIVE radio silence we’ve observed from Team Trump recently is not an accident. Well, it’s partly unintended consequences; the instant faceplant of Trump’s Truth Social website did keep the former president from elevating his profile in his usual bellicose fashion. Still, despite being just seven months from the midterm elections, there’s a sense that the Trump 2024 campaign is in hunkerdown mode, planning, negotiating, gathering nuts and dry powder for the fall. And there’s likely another explanation for the comparative quiet of Donald Trump, his enablers and minions. It’s an explanation evolving – exploding – half a world away. Thanks to the expansionist antics of Russian president Vladimir Putin, war is on the march in Europe, for the first time since World War II. Putin’s scorched-earth war against neighbor Ukraine has led to the deaths of thousands since the war started on Feb. 24, and the displacement of more
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JUL
19
President Stradivarius in Helsinki
By:
Michael E. Ross
on
JUL
19
AMONG THE hundreds or thousands of drawings, paintings, sketches and Photoshop illustrations of the man who would be president, Donald Trump, created since he took custody of the Oval Office, there’s one that’s especially memorable. It’s an image of the president* in a deep and passionate liplock with Vladimir Putin, the maximum leader of the Russian Federation. I first saw it in a mural on a building on Yucca Street in Hollywood, about a year ago, as the relationship between the two was just starting to come to light. It turned up on the side of a barbecue restaurant in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, back in May 2016. There have been any number of sightings since then. But it almost doesn’t matter how far back it originates. Monday’s events in Helsinki have revealed just how prescient that artist really was. ◊ ◊ ◊ In a summit that wasn’t so much a summit as a prom date for autocrats, Trump on Monday effectively renounced th
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