Putins Rasputin says Russia under Kremlin dictator and Trumps America have a lot in common

The Kremlin adviser dubbed “Putin’s Rasputin” says Russia under President Vladimir Putin is similar to America under President Trump — and urged MAGA supporters to believe his boss is not “the bad guy.”Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher often referred to as “Putin’s brain,” hailed the second Trump administration as a step against globalism and suggested the American president’s 2024 victory was evidence that “Putinism has won in the US.“We have a different United States: not the stronghold and head headquarters of globalism but the kind of sovereign national state, global power with traditional values,” Dugin told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday as he tried to liken Washington with Moscow.“In these new conditions, I think Putin’s Russia and Putin, personally, stops to be the main enemy, the main evil guy, the bad guy,” he added. “So I think that Trumpists and the followers of Trump will understand much better what Russia is, who Putin is and the motivations of our politics.“So … we have discovered many points that are common for … Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia,” the philosopher concluded.The comparison came as Trump and Putin’s relationship appeared to sour Sunday morning, with the US president slamming the Russian dictator over his failure to commit to an American-backed cease-fire deal in Ukraine.Dugin did not address the latest divide between Trump and Putin but suggested it is still too early to tell if the US and Russia can work together to undermine “European globalism.”Instead, Dugin called on the US to withdraw its support from Ukraine so as to allow Russia to deal with Europe undeterred.

“I think that Trump, sooner or later, and maybe sooner than we presume, he will discover that Putin has absolutely nothing against the United States, no reason to continue the fight, no reason to oppose … no field of competition,” he said.Trump previously steered clear of heavily criticizing Putin, often ...