The U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson
surprised many by introducing a Ukraine military aid bill that’s almost identical to the one he’s been hindering for 6 months
The bill was passed immediately,
there’re just a few technicalities ahead, like the Senate’s approval and Biden’s signature.
In the very near future, Ukraine will get $61 bn through various means and channels.
This is great news for Ukraine.
Kyiv will finally receive the assistance it’s been hoping for but couldn’t get due to Trump’s loyal aide Johnson’s efforts to hamper it.
It’s all because Trump has to lambaste any current administration’s initiative for his own presidential campaign.
For us Russians the news signifies something else.
We understand without any doubts
that Putin and his entourage envisioned ending the war on their terms
based on a hope that their fella Trump will rise to power soon and order Zelenskyy to surrender.
This sounds insane, but not for those nurtured by the USSR.
The Soviet worldview defies common sense.
It features two contradictory statements.
On the one hand, the U.S. is a perpetual enemy and an existential threat.
There’s constant anticipation of an inevitable clash of the two superpowers.
On the other hand, the USSR admitted that the enemy is fundamentally unbeatable.
Washington was allegedly the seat of the world government that controls everything:
from presidential elections in France to African flies’ bowel movements.
Hence, even though the USSR confronts th U.S., it exists with the White House’s permission.
So the confrontation co-exists with worship and the urge to attract attention and praise.
People raised on this logic lived their entire lives with it.
For them, there’s nothing more important than American politics, elections, and their results.
Like, really, why consider the Russian election and competition between Putin and Slutsky something important?
Why be stoked about the blatantly rigged result? What matters is somewhere over the ocean, and it affects us.
As it occurs to them, they have their guy at the American election, practically a United Russia candidate.
He declares he won’t give Ukraine any extra cent, and promises to negotiate peace with Putin within 24 hours on Putin’s terms.
He’s as pro-Putin as it’s humanly possible. He’s our Donald.
And now, suddenly, the House of Representatives Speaker,
who in their POV can’t brush his teeth without Trump’s approval,
changes his opinion and becomes Ukraine’s most zealous defender. How come?
If the Kremlin’s dimwit dwellers knew the basics of American politics and the difference between primaries and actual elections,
their frustration wouldn’t be that intense. Blessed are us, for they are idiots.
Let’s explain to them why Trump at primaries is a friend, comrade, and brother-in-arms,
and Trump before the election gives $60 bn to Ukraine.
Let’s discuss the reasons for this not-so-sudden change of hearts.
!U.S. ELECTIONS!
What’s quite obvious but rarely spoken of is a fundamental contradiction between the U.S. primaries and actual elections.
When you compete for the nomination from your own party, you fight for the party followers’ votes.
In the primaries where Donald Trump stands against Nikki Haley, there won’t be a single person teetering between Trump and Biden.
Only the most diehard Republicans attend this event,
they won’t ever vote for a Democrat even if he personally lends a hand with moving, babysitting, and loans cash until payday.
Roughly speaking, in the Republican primaries you have to be the most Republican, since you’re competing for the Republicans’ votes.
Moreover, not all Republican supporters show up: this year there were only about 20 mil attendees.
To win this, you must appeal to the most active voters.
Those who’ll spend time and effort to get in a car, drive to a nearest school,
and hang there for a good part of the day listening to each candidate waiting
for a chance to cast a vote for the one they want to see at the national election.
Political term “active voter” means “hardcore supporter” in common parlance.
One of those who can’t eat his bacon until they punish abortions with an electric chair.
Or vice versa, one of those who’d rather demolish a local school than accept the absence of a transgender bathroom there.
But at the national election, the fight for Republicans or Democrats’ votes is over.
This fall, Trump will care as much for his supporters from Alabama
as Biden will consider the opinion of the Democrats from Massachusetts.
They’ll engage in competition for voters in a few swing states.
Feel the difference?
The candidates are nominated by those who can’t sleep pondering their party’s agenda.
Those who wasted their day off, hired a babysitter, skipped grocery shopping
and a BBQ party with friends to vote for their candidate and cross swords with those who don’t love the candidate ardently enough.
In reality, the fate of the election depends on those who’re old enough to vote but haven’t decided yet if they’re red or blue.
They aren’t sure yet if they prefer lower taxes to more social benefits,
or if the protection from the government is superior to the right to obtain guns and protect oneself by oneself.
In the U.S., the most indoctrinated voters nominate the candidates,
but they are elected by those whose opinions sway weeks and days before the vote.
That’s why nomination campaigns and election campaigns are so dramatically different.
In the primaries, Trump needs those who love him for spitting at the current administration,
for being populist and anti-establishment.
His campaign is simply contradicting their decisions.
If Biden’s administration supports Ukraine, Trump speaks against it.
If it targets the CO2 emissions, he saws the muffler off his car.
If Biden said, “Donald Trump is an exceptional candidate, you should vote for him,” Trump would respond, “Are you nuts?
I’ve got 4 criminal and 3 bankruptcy cases, and I even managed to fail in gambling business.
Everyone, look at whom he offers to vote for!”
It didn’t always work like a Swiss watch.
Biden supports Israel?
Well then, f… Oops, sorry, the polls indicate that Fox News viewers dislike Arabs more than Jews.
Well then, viva Israel, and Biden doesn’t do enough to assist it.
In the primaries, Trump needs votes from those who're physically sick of Biden and his administration.
Calling him Slow Joe and promising to revert most of his policies is the right strategy at this stage.
It’s completely different at the national level.
Moderate Republicans, let alone neutral voters,
aren’t at awe of the situation when petty personal ambitions make America
look like a circus manipulated by a scheming European dictator.
Absolute majority of Americans support military aid to Ukraine, according to national polls.
Moreover, many Republican MOCs favor it, too.
It didn’t get much media attention in Russia,
but the last aid package failed not because Republicans voted against it,
but because Trump’s protege Mike Johnson delayed putting it to a vote.
Right now, Trump doesn’t need Q Shamans’ votes.
They’ll support him anyway.
He doesn’t have to froth at the mouth and be associated with zealous supporters like Marjorie Taylor Greene who love Putin too much,
dream of incarcerating every Democrat, and try to act more Trump than Trump does.
As of now, pro-Trump media enjoys pummeling these characters portraying not as Trump’s henchmen but Russian spies.
Because at this point of the campaign it’s time to put a chainsaw away and become palatable for moderate voters.
For if they don’t lead him into the president chair, the jury will lead him behind bars for many years.
!MIND BLOWING!
Why am I telling you this fascinating story?
To explain a simple fact: Donald Trump couldn’t care less about Ukraine, Russia, Europe, Putin, Zelenskyy, or NATO.
His only aim is to be elected.
If his political scientists decide that aiding Ukraine will give him extra points,
he’ll immediately board Boeing 757 with TRUMP written on the hull, land in Kyiv,
and personally promise Zelenskyy that, unlike indecisive Biden
he won’t beat around the bush for months and will send the U.S. Marines to Chasiv Yar an hour after inauguration.
Let’s leave twists and turns of the American election game to the Americans.
What matters to us is the Kremlin coots turned out to be Alabama rednecks.
They believed Trump was serious.
They indeed took the discussion about stopping military aid to Ukraine for an election promise given to them personally.
Their entire policy at the moment revolves around the flight of fancy of surviving until the U.S. election,
after which good king Donald I will bring his treacherous vassal Zelenskyy to the Kremlin where he’ll sign a surrender and a confession.
The rhetoric targeted at America’s most unsophisticated voters, low-income country cousins,
made its way to the hearts of the Kremlin’s palace builders.
Amusingly, Russian propaganda keeps mum about the matter.
They used to put high hopes on them.
Putin even gave an interview to Tucker Carlson, ‘member?
We be of one blood, Republicans and us, together against the White House and Biden!
As it turned out, they weren’t brothers at all.
Shockingly, Trump didn’t promise anything to the Kremlin’s old-timers, he didn’t take any blood oaths.
Who knew, the U.S. presidential candidate didn’t work for Putin’s administration!
A month ago, Trump needed the votes of the COnfederate flag waving pickup drivers,
and now he is trying to appeal to the Lockheed Martin engineers who see military aid to Ukraine as money to pay off their mortgages.
Now, Trump’s right hand, Speaker Johnson,
who’s been at work hampering the military aid package at all costs,
makes a U-turn and introduces an identical bill which is immediately accepted.
The Pentagon has been prepared for it, and promises the first batch in a week.
The people who’re used to exploit and dupe everyone around them,
are now brooding over an American who duped them.
They did believe him.
They believed their guy would take over the chair in Washington.
True, that guy imposed 5 times more sanctions than Obama did, but he’s still their guy.
They truly believed that the American political system daydreams about siding with Russia,
and Americans would gladly vote for Putin.
What happened is typical for the U.S. system:
the evolution from radicalism to centrism as the election approaches.
But someone seems to be surprised and upset about it.
The plan was so ingenious:
to base all the military plans on American voters who absolutely must vote for the candidate who, in his own turn,
absolutely must (don’t ask me why) win the war for Russia.
It’s incredible to see the people who wield so much power acting like elementary school students.
Former Soviet pen pushers are fixated on the U.S.
to the point they bet their fate on a good king coming to power across the ocean.
It’s easier to believe in monarchy in the U.S. than in physically mature people believing in such a concept.
One must be absolutely insane to believe that the world’s most powerful country’s election is a competition between Zelenskyy
and Putin’s parties, and be utterly surprised when this belief turns out to be nonsense.
It turns out that the U.S. are only concerned about themselves, and the candidates take only their voters’ opinions into consideration.
It turns out that Carlson’s visit to Moscow wasn’t Putin’s invitation to the club.
They bet their future on the U.S. election brouhaha, but it turned out they had a very vague idea of how the world works.
It’s heartwarming to see villains face the cold reality which is very different from what they studied in the KGB school.
Let’s not draw any conclusions today but listen to the marvelous sound of the deflating ego of the people
who seriously believed they were puppet masters behind the U.S. election.
See you tomorrow!