{"id":30659,"date":"2020-09-23T20:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30659"},"modified":"2020-09-23T20:59:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:59:23","slug":"clawing-their-way-up-the-respect-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/23\/clawing-their-way-up-the-respect-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Clawing Their Way Up The Respect Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of factors that go into earning – or at least gaining – international respect, and The Daily Beast<\/em><\/strong> has an excellent article<\/a> on how Russia is doing just that – by clawing their way up the backs of the Americans<\/em>:<\/p>\n

A bizarre and, frankly,\u00a0deeply disturbing ad<\/a> from the [Russian] state-controlled RT network<\/a>\u00a0shows a deep-faked President Donald Trump joining the channel as an anchor. Although the wig is dodgy, the video superimposes Trump\u2019s face onto a chubby body and plays real clips of him denigrating CNN and lavishing praise on \u201camazing\u201d Russia.<\/p>\n

The advert starts with Trump rolling up outside RT HQ in a limo and waddling to a dressing room which has the sign \u201cDonald Trump: RT Special Host\u201d on the door. Proudly holding up a signed RT contract which has \u201c$1,000,000,000\u201d scrawled across it in marker pen, the deep-faked Trump says: \u201cIt was a very nice offer from President Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The message of the advert is to not-so-subtly suggest that Putin is Trump\u2019s personal hero and that the U.S. president is in the pocket of the Kremlin. In one scene apparently meant to show a network executive pitching shows to the deep-faked Trump, he\u2019s handed a poster for a series called \u201cPutin\u2019s Apprentice\u201d showing him standing with the Russian president. He exclaims: \u201cI love that idea! I think I can do that!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the heads of other states will see that Trump won’t react to that, and they’ll read American weakness. This isn’t just a piece of odd humor, it’s just another step in dismantling American dominance and replacing it with Russian hegemony.<\/p>\n

I would love to see reporters ask Trump for his reaction to this humiliating piece – and if he’s considered reacting to it kinetically<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that means putting a missile into a Russian target.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Trump, are you just going to continue to project American weakness, or will you defend American interests by, say, downing a Russian fighter?”<\/p>\n

He might have a heart attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of factors that go into earning – or at least gaining – international respect, and The Daily Beast has an excellent article on how Russia is doing just that – by clawing their way up the backs of the Americans: A bizarre and, frankly,\u00a0deeply disturbing ad from \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30660,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions\/30660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}