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2 weeks ago | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Alexei Bayer |Stephan Richter
by Alexei Bayer and Stephan Richter
Donald Trump is dismissive of most world leaders. The biggest exception is Vladimir Putin. The question is why.
What explains the Putin-Trump axis?
There are two primary sources for the Putin-Trump kinship. The first is that both leaders share a very personal sense of victimhood.
In his youth, Trump suffered under the constant bullying and dismissive treatment by his father.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
theglobalist.com | Alexei Bayer |Markus Heinrich
In an 1852 essay, Karl Marx famously remarked that all great events and personalities in history occur twice – once as tragedy and the second time as farce. Today’s United States may well be in for a variant of Marx’s dictum. The country is currently experiencing the farcical stage of a charismatic leader with dubious motivations that could end up as tragedy.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
theglobalist.com | Alexei Bayer |Markus Heinrich
Mark my words: The upcoming U.S. presidential election will likely be won or lost on the issue of inflation. Blame game under way Given that, it is unsurprising that a big blame game is under way among Democrats and Republicans. Of course, the Republicans point out that the cost of food and lodging, which is what most voters care about daily, has gone up by at least 30% over the past three years. They say it’s Joe Biden’s fault.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
theglobalist.com | Alexei Bayer |Markus Heinrich
Many Evangelical voters in the United States believe that Donald Trump is a kind of messiah. This is at least somewhat insofar as Trump’s life story is anything but saintly. After all, viewed in a biblical context, he cheats, lies, steals and covets his neighbor’s wife. He is vain, venal and vengeful. In short, there are very few of the Ten Commandments Donald Trump has not yet violated. Trump as King David?
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
theglobalist.com | Alexei Bayer |Markus Heinrich
For the Democrats in the United States, things have been looking bleak. Their prospects of retaining the White House had gotten dimmer by the week. But now that Joe Biden has bowed out of seeking another term, Kamala Harris, his Vice President, reshuffles the deck of cards for the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
theglobalist.com | Alexei Bayer |Markus Heinrich
It used to be that the United States prided itself on being a meritocracy. No more. It is increasingly a country with a cult of money and rule by moneyed elites. Not so much an oligarchy as a monetocracy. It is a country of public poverty and obscene private wealth. According to Bloomberg, the ten richest Americans are collectively worth over $1.6 trillion.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
theglobalist.com | Alexei Bayer |Markus Heinrich
On June 6, World War II allies will mark another anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of NormandyThere will be speeches about the victory over Nazism, the destruction of Hitler’s Reich and the decisive defeat of tyranny and aggression. Among the victors there will likely be a delegation from Russia. Their presence at this event, even while it is waging a brutal war against Ukraine, will serve to underscore the fact that the job begun in Normandy eighty years ago remains only half-done.
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May 21, 2024 | 
theglobalist.com | Alexei Bayer |Markus Heinrich
There was a time in American history when genuflecting to Russia was a leftist disease. In the 1930s, some on the Left even went so far as to move to the USSR, to help Stalin build communism. Even during the Cold War, after the disillusionment with the Soviet regime had set in, some liberals were still inclined to see things in Russia that were better than in America. They were, in the words of Jean Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan’s UN Ambassador, “blame America first” Democrats.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
hnonline.sk | Alexei Bayer
Ruský prezident Vladimir Putin. FOTO: Reuters Rusko žilo tristo rokov pod vládou dynastie Romanovovcov a od boľševickej revolúcie v roku 1917 je kontinuita opäť na prvom mieste. Jedným z dôvodov, prečo sa disidenti v postkomunistickom Rusku nedostali k moci, bola predčasná smrť nositeľa Nobelovej ceny za mier Andreja Sacharova. Postsovietske Rusko formoval Jeľcin. Presun moci z jednej skupiny komunistických pohlavárov do druhej sa skončil presne tak, ako mal.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
hnonline.sk | Alexei Bayer |Stephan Richter
Americký prezident George W. Bush a ruský prezident Vladimir Putin podpísali bilaterálnu dohodu o vstupe Ruska do Svetovej obchodnej organizácie WTO vo vietnamskom Hanoji 19. novembra 2006. FOTO TASR/AP Po páde komunizmu sa zjavný globálny triumf americkej demokracie dokonca vyhlásil za „koniec dejín“. Európa bola zasa prvýkrát od prvej svetovej vojny zjednotená. Takmer celý kontinent bol spojencom Washingtonu.
