On Tuesday, MS NOW’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell made the claim that “America lost the Cold War” due to President Trump’s recent diesel deal with Russia.
O’Donnell launched into his hunch that Trump “now has surrendered” to Vladimir Putin. Also in on the guesswork was foreign affairs analyst and Daily Beast columnist, David Rothkopf, who argued that the president has since gone soft on Russia, reversing all the progress from the Cold War with Trump “doing his bidding” (Click “expand”):
You know, think of our lives for the past 30 years. We reveled in the fact that we ended the Cold War, that we had triumphed, that our way of life had triumphed, that we were this force for good in the world. At least we aspired to be. But now the president is subordinate to the President of Russia. He is doing his bidding.
We've seen him bend the knee before. But what he's done in the past few days in terms of this diesel deal, in terms of waiving these sanctions, in terms of cutting back intelligence flows to Ukraine, in terms of the deals that Senator Ossoff was talking about that are being negotiated now is just say, look, we are publicly on the side of Russia. We are publicly against our ally, Ukraine. We are supporting a war criminal that is killing women and innocent children as we speak.
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