Igor Aidman: "How Trump and Putin will divide the world"

"Some Russian opposition calls Donald (Trump) to become Ronald (Reagan), that is, to start a tough policy in relation to the Putin regime. This is hardly possible. Trump, unlike Reagan, has no motives to confront Putin," the sociologist writes in publication on the Kasparov.ru website.

"Reagan had irreconcilable ideological contradictions with the USSR authorities. As a Christian, he opposed the Soviet atheists as a supporter of the market system and the Republican - Communists. Trump and Putin have no ideological contradictions. On the contrary, they are close to each other. Both of them are right -wing populists, despise political correlation and tolerance, do not like liberals, human rights defenders, various human rights activists, various human rights defenders. They are closely stylistic and class, very rich people who are accustomed to luxury, rude sexists, loving salty jokes, playing the other people.

Trump has the psychology of a tough businessman from the 19th century. This is not an innovator like Jobs or Brin, but a trivial speculator. Such people respect only their own kind. For them, the significance of the partner is proportional to the magnitude of its capital. For Trump, Putin and his entourage are close billionaires. And Russia is a country rich in natural resources and possessing nuclear weapons, which in the modern world is hardly the most valuable foreign policy. ”

“There is no reason to assume that Trump will compete with Putin in the international arena. Putin is an expansionist, and Trump is an isolationist. Therefore, Trump does not have ambitions to confront Putin in a game on a global chessboard. I think when the Russian dictator offers the world into the spheres of influence, the new American president will not increase the line of differentiation: you (Americans) Do not climb into Syria, we (Russians) - you are to Ukraine, we are to Poland, or something like that, of course, Putin, by an old habit, will sooner or later throw American partners, like everyone who tried to agree with him. ”

"For Ukraine, all this is very bad. It is too poor for the tough businessman Trump, which cannot be interesting as a mutually beneficial partner. And the protection of democracy, solidarity with the people underwent aggression, for Trump - an empty phrase. Ukraine does not represent practical interest for him, and ideals are simply not interested in ideals."

"Trump’s isolationism and national egoism will become a serious test for Europe. The military-political support that the United States has provided to it has been on the ideological altruism for decades, which Trump has no sight for the first time after the Second World War. The United States can actually leave Europeans alone with a threat from the East."

"Trump's victory means the first serious success of the Putinism export policy. It is not yet the end that the Russian special services played in it. But the ideological and stylistic proximity of Trump and Putin is obvious." The spinning of Putinism in the world is only beginning. This is a great threat to democracy and humanism in the world.

In general, as is sore in a well -known revolutionary anthem: “No one will give us deliverance, neither God, nor the king and the hero” (and not even the US president, we add from ourselves). Democracy in Russia and Europe has to rely only on its own forces. "