[SIZE=7]New York Daily News Savages Donald Trump Over Vladimir Putin Invite[/SIZE]
“Who’s Your Vladdy!”
By Lee Moran
07/20/2018 03:03 AM ET
Updated 1 hour ago
The tabloid depicted Trump sitting behind a topless Putin on horseback for its Friday front cover. It called Trump “groveling” and also mockingly declared, “Who’s Your Vladdy!”
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Trump has invited Putin to visit the U.S. in the fall, following the pair’s summit in Helsinki on Monday during which Trump controversially said he accepted his counterpart’s denials that Russia interfered in the 2016 election ― but later attempted to take back his comments.
I am getting to love Trump. He’s what you call a disrupter, a change agent. He’s told Europe to shape up or ship out; talked to North Korea; is making friends with the Russians and so and so on. He seems to understand that in a world where a group of guys can unleash a biological weapon or a small nation-state can develop nuclear weapons, the age of empire is gone. War today and in the future will be asymmetric, and the era of gunboat diplomacy is gone. One hypersonic missile can sink an aircraft carrier, and a suicide bomber can take out the US president. So what to do? Pragmatism, innovation in foreign policy and consolidation, which is exactly what Trump is doing.
Of course, the old order (American exceptionalism, Russia is our enemy, we can bomb everybody back to the stone age, etc) won’t let go without a fight.
This conclusion appears to be based on very superficial observation.
Real disrupters do not reverse their positions within 24 hours claiming to have ommitted a word in their story, or lying against overwhelming TV footage.