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I was reading on social media that France and Ukraine had supplied the Trump Administration with some secret intelligence, and that information was leaked to the Russian Government. It stated the United States could no longer be trusted with secret intelligence. Now I don’t get my news from social media because too much of it is not true or very misleading, just like I don’t get my news from cable news or CBS. After all, too much of that is not true or misleading. In fact, I get most of my news by reading. I always research information like that, and what I found was that there was no reputable information showing the Trump administration had leaked French and Ukrainian intelligence. It did state that there are credible reports and a lot of confusion being mixed with older scandals. What would give merit to a story like that? Maybe because back in 2017, Trump did disclose highly classified information in an Oval Office meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It was Allied provided information, and it had not been approved for sharing with the Russians. Reporting at the time stressed that the President had the legal authority to declassify any information, but it alarmed both US and Allied intelligence officials because it risked exposing our partners and sensitive sources. France now supplies Ukraine with about 80 percent of its intelligence, so it's easy to see how a story like that could be pieced together, but there is still no proof, just speculation, but as they say, “where there is smoke, there is fire”.

For about ten years, I have read people say on social media that Trump is a Russian asset. It has been suggested to me that the question should be, “Why did so many of his actions benefit Russia’s interests”? That is the question that matters for NATO, Ukraine, US democracy, and the future of the Western alliance system. That is the question that will shape global relations and politics for years to come. In 2016, US intelligence agencies concluded Russia conducted a sweeping interference campaign in the US election. Multiple Trump campaign officials had contact with Russians, including Trump's own children. The Senate Intelligence Committee called Paul Manafort’s relationship with a Russian counterintelligence officer a “grave counterintelligence threat”. Trump publicly praises Putin and repeatedly questions NATO’s value. It has always been known since the Cold War that one of Russia's top strategic goals is to weaken NATO and to divide the US internally. 2016 marks what some analysts say, Trump’s rhetoric was helping with those goals.

In 2017, early on in Trump's Presidency, he refused to explicitly endorse Article 5 during his first NATO summit. European leaders, of course alarmed that Trump would not honor the United States commitment to NATO, an organization the United States was very active in organizing in the first place. Trump is also now openly disputing US intelligence and our commitment to NATO. By weakening both NATO and our intelligence community, it only aids and emboldens Russia. In 2018, at the Helsinki summit, Trump publicly sided with Putin over our own intelligence agencies regarding the election interference. This moment is probably one of the most significant propaganda victories for Moscow in decades. Trump basically gave Putin carte blanche to interfere in the coming elections. In 2019, Trump pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his family by freezing military aid. Delaying aid directly benefits Russian military positions in Ukraine. In 2020, our intelligence again concluded that Russia was trying to interfere and influence our election. Trump dismisses and disputes the findings, which undermines our counterintelligence efforts, which aids a long-standing Russian objective.  

Trumps post presidency was more of the same when it came to Russia and Putin. He continues to criticize NATO, and he continues to praise Putin’s leadership. When Russia invades Ukraine, Trump calls Putin’s strategy “genius” and “savvy.” NATO unites in response, but Trump's comments create political division inside the United States. Trump's praise for Putin complicates the United States message and is used as propaganda by the Russian state media. In 2023 and 2024, Trump continues to question whether the United States should defend NATO allies who “don’t pay. Statements like that only embolden Putin and Russia because it continues to play into Russia's objective of weakening NATO.

After taking office again in 2025, Trump delayed aid to Ukraine, which alarms Europe and creates battlefield vulnerabilities. What that makes is that Trump’s unpredictability is now a threat to all of Europe, which of course strengthens Russia. NATO is now at a breaking point. Trump is trying to take Greenland and Canada and make them part of the United States, which puts us at odds with our own NATO allies. Trump says that we need Greenland for security against the Russians, the very country that he has aided in the destabilization of NATO. Trump has said in the past that Russia is no threat. If Russia is not a threat, then why would we need Greenland for security against Russia? Russia has spent decades trying to fracture NATO. The United States political climate that has been created by Trump is not doing more to destabilize the alliance than what any Russian military pressure has.

Some may say that the question isn’t whether Trump is a “Russian asset”. The question is whether his actions, intention or not, are consistently aligned with Russia’s strategic goals. Those goals are weakening NATO, undermining Ukraine, dividing the United States internally, discrediting US intelligence, and most of all reducing pressure on Moscow. That is why the debate persists. Not because of what investigators can prove, but what the timeline of Trump's actions shows. As long as Trump continues to weaken NATO and the United States while strengthening Putin and Russia, there will always be people who will say Trump is a Russian asset because that is what he looks like. One thing for sure is that the Country that Trump is making great again is not the United States but Russia.

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