Putin VS Trump

The columnist of the American Washington Post is sure that Trump does not like the person he sees in the mirror, the editor -in -chief of NT Evgeny Albats asks: how is Putin his reflection?

The newspaper Washington Post recently came out with a note of its constant columnist George Will, under the heading “The most miserable president of the United States is an inexpressibly sad view for the review”, and then Will, who is called one of the most influential political commentators, makes Donald Trump for sparrows, not Leaving a wet place from him. The softest thing that Will speaks of the current 45th President of the United States is that he does not understand anything either in economics or foreign policy; The budget deficit reached $ 1 trillion - and this is in the conditions of growth in economics and minimal unemployment, and the liquidation of the Pacific partnership (the President Barack Obama, who was made by his predecessor), allowed China to be accommodated by those bridgeheads that were released because the United States left there. He calls Trump notful, childishly uneducated and infinitely busy-to the impossibility of digesting all this-by himself and his own advancement by a person who says about himself: "I have excellent brains." Will assures that for most Americans Trump is nothing more than a speaker on the computer screen: always in place, but not noticed by anyone. And finally, it concludes that all this Trump does from deep self -doubt: “What a misfortune to wake up every morning and know that you are Donald Trump.”

What do you think will happen to George Will and the Washington Post on Monday, when the “leader of the free world and the most powerful person on earth”, how is it customary in films to talk about the owner of the oval cabinet, whatever the last name will come to work? That's right, Will they call - if they were no longer called - in the morning Sunday programs (an analogue of the evening final programs that were in the 1990s on the screens) so that he repeated this comment on the audience of tens of millions of people.

By the way: I had to meet and talk with George Will at Harvard University - he taught there for several months, so Will was not a democrat at all, not a representative of the party’s opposition Trump, as you might think, on the contrary, he is known as a supporter of conservative values ​​and the good old Republican Party of the United States.

But I'm not talking about Will, and not about Washington Post, and not even about Donald Trump.

I am about our own President Vladimir Putin.

What, in fact, is he remarkable, well, besides the fact that for 19 years he could not get away from power? Well, even in comparison with this "miserable Donald Trump"?

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Trump made a fortune of $ 3 billion-well, let not all himself (he was inherited from his father) and in the field of serious New York businessmen talks to a fraction of mild disgust, and nevertheless.

Putin was also not Isaac and did not restore monasteries, but he didn’t work for a single day in business - he was an official, blessed foreign trade operations, controlled the St. Petersburg port and sliding schemes with strangers, and in the only position in St. Petersburg, where he was the first among equal terms - the head of his headquarters to re -election the mayor of Sobchak, he did the election. However, now his fortune is exposed to tens of billions of dollars, and the famous villa in Gelendzhik, who included in the story as the Putin’s palace , blind trains in Liechtenstein and “Surgutneftegaz” fluffing from the cache are by no means the only diamonds in his crown.

Trump, before becoming the president, the reproaches from the race of all important rivals-republicans, including the son of one, in the past, the president of the United States and the brother of the other, and then outplayed-with the help of Russian special services or only with assistance, not the essence-one of the most experienced politicians of America Hillary Clinton, who went from the first lady to the state, and quite successful, secretary, that is, the Minister, that is, the Minister Foreign Affairs of the United States.

Putin did not win a single election. The first, 1999 - 2000, was provided to him by the central television and Dorenko, who turned his main rivals Yuri Luzhkov and Evgeny Primakov into despised even supporters ... as if it were softer to speak out ... In short, to the weaklings. Putin won all the subsequent elections for lack of any serious opponents-well, not to consider Zyuganov or Zhirinovsky, who openly played like that? When such rivals appeared-as it could be in 2011–22, if Dmitry Medvedev had not been scared and appeared for a second term, and even more so in 2018, when Alexei Navalny could become a real opponent in the presidential election-they were shamelessly removed from a distance, and Putin’s rivals were again the same fake candidates.

And it doesn’t matter, the environment persuaded him every time to go to theatrical elections or he himself decided so - over 19 years he never once won by power.

One way or another, and the first two terms of Putin (2000-2008), when the economy grew up almost by Chinese pace, businesses were choked in success, people first felt that it was better to live, and the Russian president stopped going to the eights with an outstretched hand and he was even forgiven by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was sitting in Krasnokamen and stolen with his partners, - - He then go into private life, and the country would have been grateful to him.

And what after another 10 years in a dry remainder? The country in international isolation, from the "eight" with shame, have been expelled, have grown in Crimea - lost the world. The economy stagnates, capital and businesses are running -they would run faster if there was anyone to sell, people with some heads run too . Nothing - neither to kill, nor poison, nor urine to replace the guys in uniform, the support of the regime, to make sure not to get caught, they cannot. The subject of pride and a gift to the population, who has lost the fifth year in a row in income, from the president, the head of state and the commander in chief - the hypersonic blank , despite the fact that we cannot bring the rocket into orbit and make the gas in the houses does not explode - too.

And how does Vladimir Putin wake up in the morning? And what does he say, looking at himself in the mirror?

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