8/1/2023 0 Comments Julia ioff“In the Civil War of 1861-1865 between the North and the South … Russia, with the agreement of the government of Abraham Lincoln, brought in one naval squadron into the port of San Francisco, and another into New York harbor,” Kolsky writes. provided critical help to the Soviet Union during World War II with the Lend-Lease program, which, perhaps was just America returning the favor. In his letter, he explains that, despite America spending far too much money on NATO to shelter the provocative, anti-Russian Baltics, Russia and America are natural, historic allies. Kolsky is hoping for an American president who doesn’t treat Russia as an enemy, and for a return to an earlier (possibly illusory) friendship between the two countries. He is a man they can understand, and who, they hope, will understand and respect them-a rarity for an American president. There’s also something Russian about Trump the man: he likes gold-plated opulence and surgically-perfected Eastern European women he eschews political correctness and shoots from the hip. Trump has praised Putin Putin responded by calling him “talented” and “colorful.” Hillary Clinton seized on this in her recent foreign policy speech, mocking Trump for saying that, “if he were grading Vladimir Putin as a leader, he’d give him an A.” She added, “If you don’t know exactly who you’re dealing with, men like Putin will eat your lunch.” But if many Americans are anxious and the rest of the world scared of a potentially destabilizing Trump presidency, Russia is salivating at the prospect: Trump seems to understand Russia’s might and wants to get out of Russia’s way. Trump’s warm comments about Putin have horrified American foreign-policy stalwarts and become an issue on the campaign trail. Ever since President Barack Obama’s “reset” fizzled and Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, relations between the two countries have sunk to what pundits like to call “Cold War lows.” But suddenly, unexpectedly, this election has presented the Kremlin and Russians with a champion-a man who openly says he would get along with Putin, who would build a relationship with him and with Russia, and would pull America off the world stage, where it keeps getting tangled in Russia’s feet. Russia and America haven’t been getting along for a while now. Your phrase from March 22, 2016: ‘It is much better to build relationships with all governments, but it’s always better to get along with them.’ ‘If if we get along with Russia, that would be great.’” “Possessing superior military potential and developed economy in the world, you are always able to resolve the most pressing problems peacefully. “You are the only candidate for president who doesn’t use rhetoric about the military threat from Russia,” Kolsky wrote. He doesn’t want war with America, and Trump doesn’t seem to want to go to war with Russia. “Your work in this field creates a convincing image: a laborer into whose reliable hands we can entrust the fate of the people and country.”īut, again, Kolsky is really a one-issue voter-were he able to vote in the American elections all. “When you followed your father’s footsteps into the construction business, you were very successful you increased your family’s wealth many, many times over.” Kolsky sees in Trump an American Everyman. Presidential election and has concluded one thing: “From the group of candidates for the presidency, you are the only one who inspires confidence,” he wrote to Trump. “Greetings from the most ordinary Russian citizen, Felix Nikolaevich Kolsky.” From his home in this blighted industrial city on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, Kolsky says he has been following the U.S. “My generation never recovered,” he says of the 27 million people the Soviet Union lost in the fight, “so there is just no way that we want another war.” And so, to help Russia avoid another catastrophic conflict, he decided to do something about it: He wrote to Donald Trump. Kolsky’s father was one of the ones who didn’t make it home, and Felix was born in his absence, shortly after he went off to the front in 1941. His grandfather had five sons, and only one came back from World War II. NIZHNY TAGIL-Felix Nikolaevich Kolsky knows war. Julia Ioffe is contributing writer at Politico Magazine.
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