The more optimistic quarters of the Russian camp argue that Trump\u2019s actions in Caracas show international law has been jettisoned, allowing Moscow to justify its own behavior. Others suggest, despite evidence to the contrary in the Middle East, that Trump is adhering to the 19th century Monroe Doctrine and will be content to focus on dominance of the Americas, leaving Russia to its old European and Central Asian spheres of influence.<\/p>\n
In truth, however, Putin has followed the might-is-right model for years. What\u2019s embarrassing is that he hasn\u2019t proving as successful at it as Trump.<\/p>\n
Indeed, the dominant emotion among Russia\u2019s nationalists appears to be envy, both veiled and undisguised.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of Russia is asking itself why we don\u2019t deal with our enemies in a similar way,\u201d\u00a0wrote Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent ultranationalist. Russia, he continued, should take a leaf out of Trump\u2019s playbook. <\/strong>\u201cDo like Trump, do it better than Trump. And faster.\u201d <\/p>\n Pro-Kremlin mouthpiece Margarita Simonyan was even more explicit, saying there was reason to \u201cbe jealous.\u201d<\/p>\n Various pro-Kremlin commentators also noted tartly that, unlike Russia, the U.S. was unlikely to face repercussions in the form of international sanctions or being \u201ccancelled.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The more optimistic quarters of the Russian camp argue that Trump\u2019s actions in Caracas show international law has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7779,3992,13021,43410,74,262,69,5755,5495,1567,3195,83,99,269,398,3097,1802,39071,374,50,92550,270,65936,5500,257,8152,126,56019,23312,158,273,67,32322,274,3656,131,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-496363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-aviation","11":"tag-azerbaijan","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-drones","16":"tag-energy","17":"tag-india","18":"tag-industry","19":"tag-iran","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-kremlin","22":"tag-media","23":"tag-middle-east","24":"tag-military","25":"tag-military-aviation","26":"tag-missiles","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-nicolas-maduro","29":"tag-oil","30":"tag-playbook","31":"tag-ports","32":"tag-russia","33":"tag-safety","34":"tag-sanctions","35":"tag-soviet-union","36":"tag-syria","37":"tag-technology","38":"tag-ukraine","39":"tag-united-states","40":"tag-venezuela","41":"tag-vladimir-putin","42":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","43":"tag-war","44":"tag-war-in-ukraine","45":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115847929886725179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}