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Whose side is he on? It’s hard to keep up, so here’s a handy guide to America’s new policy of close alignment with the Kremlin.
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25. Backing the AfD in Germany’s election: Trump’s best billionaire buddy Elon Musk openly endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and its candidate Alice Weidel to be chancellor in Sunday’s election. The AfD is set for its best ever result, according to polls. Many AfD supporters are sympathetic to Moscow. Intelligence services have warned of a Russian campaign to disrupt the vote.
26. Musk backing Reform UK in Britain: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has a history of making favorable comments about Putin (something his centrist opponents have used to attack him).
28. Winning the presidential election: Ok, so this one was really in Trump’s interests first. But the Kremlin is certainly pleased that Trump beat Harris to the White House.
29. Winning forever: Trump has hinted he wouldn’t mind so much if his country’s constitution were tweaked to let him stay on for a third term in office. Putin did that in Russia already.