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There Is Only One U.S. Leader Putin Actually Fears
By: Rebekah Koffler March 31, 20231/2
Trump has already established a reputation with Putin that he is not to be messed with and won’t shy away from a battle with the Kremlin.
Last weekend, in an unprecedented move, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he will deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, Russia’s closest ally.
Moscow’s move is likely designed to hold more European targets at risk of a nuclear strike amid the conflict in Ukraine, which has entered its second year. A day later, Putin’s ally and Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned that Russia has “modern unique weapons capable of destroying any adversary, including the United States.” The next day, Russia, which placed its nuclear forces on a heightened alert at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine, fired several nuclear-capable, anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan during a simulated attack.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., which has been fighting a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine, the media are already pushing voters to concern themselves with the presidential election that is still a year and a half away. Between the two expected front-runners for the GOP nomination, former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has yet to announce if he will run for president), one has an extensive track record on Russia, while the other can’t offer those same assurances.
Havingspent my intelligence career studying Russian war-fighting doctrineand Putin’s mindset, I am confident Trump is the one U.S. leader Putin fears. He has already established a reputation with Putin that he is not to be messed with and won’t shy away from a “mano-a-mano” battlewith the Kremlin’s assassin.
Despite the false narrative spread by the U.S. spy agencies and media,Trump was no friend of Putin’s. The 45th president is the only U.S.
commander-in-chief during whose presidency Putin didn’t invade any country. Here arefive reasons why the cold-blooded “former” KGB operative fearedthe brash real-estate mogul from New York.
First, in December 2019, President Trump stood upthe first entirely new armed service since 1947, the U.S. Space Force. It was a direct counter to Russia’s space warfare doctrine. Trump understood that the Russians, who formed their space force in 2001, view U.S. reliance on space as an Achilles heel, a strategic vulnerability. Every aspect of U.S. warfighting doctrine is reliant on satellites — missile warning, navigation, reconnaissance, targeting, command-and-control, and precision strike efforts. Putin gave Russia’s space troops the mission to “blind and deafen” U.S. forces by attacking our satellites in wartime.
The 2023 Annual Threat Assessment by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmedRussia is training its space forces and fielding “new antisatellite weapons to disrupt and degrade” U.S. space assets, including the GPS. These weapons include kinetic-kill missiles, ground-based lasers, electronic warfare systems, directed energy weapons, and on-orbit fractional bombardment systems capable of launching a weaponized conventional or nuclear payload. The U.S. Space Force, with its 16,000 active-duty and civilian personnel, has the mission of bothprotecting U.S. satellitesfrom attacks and also targeting adversaries’ space and counterspace assets withoffensive operations….
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/31/there-is-only-one-u-s-leader-who-putin-actually-fears/