Trumping Russia
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
This week was a very busy one in the political sense, with the Trump and Putin meeting in Helsinki, and many of you on Facebook and Twiter had asked me to give my insights and opinions about the current events because of that. So…obviously, I complied. Now, this one might sound a bit rambly again, and goes off topic – but the sheer chaos of everything that has been going on, and the fact that we now, truly, do live in very interesting times, means that I had to condense a lot of information. Not particulary proud of this episode, frankly…but I hope it’ll provide you with a fresh look and maybe make you think about the recent events a bit deeper. Enjoy!
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| 0:43.9 | forward slash plan. Greetings, comrades, it's a hot summer day for us here, and welcome to another episode of the Eastern border. |
| 1:07.6 | This time, due to popular requests, I shall be discussing the recent political events, because, |
| 1:13.9 | well, just a little thing as a Trump and Putin meeting happened, but that's not the only |
| 1:19.4 | thing that actually, you know, made news over here in these parts that people should care about. |
| 1:24.9 | I read the Western median response to the Trump meeting, and it's kind of fair, |
| 1:30.1 | but over here at least, well, and over here, I mean Russian opposition media, and Russian mainstream |
| 1:37.1 | media is, you know, you might as well listen to an empty tape just pointing out white noise. They all |
| 1:43.0 | praise Putin for everything. |
| 1:44.9 | But the analytical elements here suggested that, hey, Putin actually might also have made |
| 1:51.2 | a lot of mistakes during this whole meeting. |
| 1:54.4 | And, you know, if you're in America and you already know that Trump basically decided that he trusts Russia more than he trusts his secret services, |
| 2:06.4 | and then there was a huge backlash, and then he shifted his opinion. |
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