Russian Impulses 0
Trudy Rubin takes an acerbic and disturbing look at Donald Trump’s fascination with autocrats and autocracy. A snippet:
China is playing him, with flattery and tiny trade concessions, but no shift in the South China Seas, and no real help on North Korea. As Trump withdraws from global leadership, Beijing is rushing in to fill the vacuum.
Islamist jihadists are watching him, hopeful he will continue his denigration of democracies — undermining the self-confidence they need to combat terrorism jointly. Jihadis can only cheer his blinkered assumption that Gulf autocrats will help him crush them.
Trump is on the wrong side of history, abandoning the values America has stood for at a time when democracies need to be bonding together.
