Electoral battles

Who does the Kremlin want to win: Clinton or Trump?

Despite a concerted campaign in America to link the Republican nominee with the Kremlin, there is no evidence to support the narrative that the Russian government wants Donald Trump to become the next US President.

The novelist Sidney Sheldon, who had a Russian background, once mused that “to be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.” While there’s little doubt the US establishment shares that view, America’s sheer power and wealth makes it find to hard credible opponents. As a result, they just keep coming back to Russia, in the process bestowing upon it astounding capabilities that contradict the other usual yarn that the country is in terminal decline. Innuendo that this column has previously dubbed 'Russophrenia.'

Thus, the current hysteria about alleged ties between Trump and Vladimir Putin is nothing new. After all, during the last Presidential campaign, failed candidate Mitt Romney described Russia as “America’s number one geopolitical foe.” As it happens, in 2008, John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, suggested in her first major interview that the United States should consider war with Russia one day in order to defend Georgia.