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The maelstrom following Donald Trump’s 2025 return to the US presidency left many bemused and disoriented. But for Russia-watchers, what unfolded was grimly familiar. So many of the Trump administration’s destructive actions have precisely aligned with the Kremlin’s own objectives; and to a startling extent, Trump’s America is beginning to mimic Russia itself.
Abroad, Trump has demanded the annexation of neighbours, and embraced war crimes in Iran and the Caribbean. At home, the war on truth and history, purges and the weaponisation of justice, the deployment of masked federal paramilitaries to the streets of major cities and more all mirror Putin’s own consolidation of power. Dismantling obstacles to Russia’s ambitions, whether they threaten Europe or America itself, is a defining feature of Trump’s second presidency. Determination to force Ukraine’s surrender to Russia is just the clearest example among many.
Keir Giles examines America’s transformation through the prism of Kremlinology. What he reveals should alarm us all.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: Surveying Change
Chapter 1: RUSSIA AND AMERICA: THE LONG WAR
Chapter 2: AMERICA AND RUSSIA, TRUMP AND PUTIN
Chapter 3: THE DEMOLITION OF AMERICAN POWER
Chapter 4: AMERICA AND ITS ALLIES
Chapter 5: RESHAPING AMERICAN SOCIETY
Chapter 6: AUTOCRACY IN THE USA
Chapter 7: THE QUESTION OF COMPETENCE
Chapter 8: THE WAR ON FACTS AND TRUTH
Chapter 9: RULE OF LAW, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT
Chapter 10: AMERICA’S WAR ON IRAN (AND RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINE)
Chapter 11. ELECTIONS, OR NOT
CONCLUSION
ENDGAME: THE NEW WORLD ORDER, AND AMERICA’S PLACE IN IT
Spheres of Influence
The Near Future for Democracies
The Near Future for the United States
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The maelstrom following Donald Trump’s 2025 return to the US presidency left many bemused and disoriented. But for Russia-watchers, what unfolded was grimly familiar. So many of the Trump administration’s destructive actions have precisely aligned with the Kremlin’s own objectives; and to a startling extent, Trump’s America is beginning to mimic Russia itself.
Abroad, Trump has demanded the annexation of neighbours, and embraced war crimes in Iran and the Caribbean. At home, the war on truth and history, purges and the weaponisation of justice, the deployment of masked federal paramilitaries to the streets of major cities and more all mirror Putin’s own consolidation of power. Dismantling obstacles to Russia’s ambitions, whether they threaten Europe or America itself, is a defining feature of Trump’s second presidency. Determination to force Ukraine’s surrender to Russia is just the clearest example among many.
Keir Giles examines America’s transformation through the prism of Kremlinology. What he reveals should alarm us all.
