An ally of Putin, and perhaps another “buddy” of Trump, predicts a Civil War. Trump is very stupid when it come to real history. Putin is “very smart” about history. It would be very easy to get Trump in a dumb duality game, where his stance is manipulated. Here is Senator Jeff Merkle on our local news. Oregon will draw a line in the sand.
Look at the smug look of benevolence on Trump’s face. Putin sees our President as..
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
Put Trump in a Santa suit.
John Presco
I predict real history will conclude Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu – ARE INSANE! I will post my prediction, every God Damn Time I post!
“Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” after a nearly three-hour meeting between the leaders in Alaska. “He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now.”
Trump, who has not ruled out seeking a third term in office despite a constitutional prohibition, on Friday showed impatience with Republicans for not prioritizing election reform legislation.
“The Republicans want it, but not strongly enough,” Trump said during the interview. “You can’t have a great democracy with mail-in voting.”
Putin Ally Predicts US Will Collapse in ‘Imminent New Civil War’
Published Sep 07, 2024 at 11:29 AM EDTUpdated Sep 09, 2024 at 11:37 AM EDT
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Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued a warning on Saturday predicting the United States will collapse in an “imminent new civil war” amid this year’s election over Russian sanctions.
Since the Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022, Western countries have imposed sanctions on Moscow, with several thousand sanctions on Russian individuals, businesses, and government institutions. The U.S. has gradually expanded the sanctions it imposed as President Joe Biden issued an executive order in December, which allows the U.S. to directly sanction foreign banks facilitating significant transactions for Russia. Washington threatened to block such banks that conduct business with firms that support Russia’s defense industry from its financial system.
In a Saturday Telegram message, Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, spoke about the current political climate of the U.S. and the 2024 presidential race, which will see former President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, face off against Vice President Kamala Harris, who won the Democratic presidential nominee after Biden dropped out of the race on July 21.
“Out of spite for the current administration, Donald Trump has threatened to lift sanctions against Russia. But will he really do it if elected? No, of course not. For all his apparent bravado as an ‘outsider’, Trump is ultimately an establishment insider. Yes, he is an eccentric narcissist, but he is also a pragmatist. As a businessman, Trump understands that sanctions harm the dollar’s dominance in the world. However, that’s insufficient reason to stage a revolution in the United States and go against the anti-Russian line of the notorious Deep State, which is much stronger than any Trump,” Medvedev said.
He added: “But what about Harris? You shouldn’t expect any surprises from her. She is inexperienced and, according to her enemies, just plain stupid. Beautiful meaningless speeches and boring ‘correct’ answers to questions will be prepared for her, which she will read off a teleprompter while laughing contagiously. There were sanctions against the USSR throughout the 20th century, and they’ve returned on an unprecedented scale in the 21st. So, it’s sanctions forever. Or rather, until the US collapses during an imminent new civil war. After all, Hollywood makes films about this for a reason.”
Newsweek has reached out to the White House as well as Harris’ campaign via email for comment.
In response to Medvedev’s remarks, in an emailed statement to Newsweek on Saturday, Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung took aim at Harris by stating, “Putin has endorsed Kamala Harris because he knows she will be a pushover for Russia.”
This is not the first time Medvedev has warned of a civil war as he previously issued a warning to the U.S. on July 4, suggesting there are parallels between the American Civil War and the current U.S. political climate that hint at a “premonition of civil war.”
In a July Telegram message, Medvedev acknowledged the significance of Independence Day in America, but then compared the American Civil War to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine as he warned of the political climate in the U.S.
Medvedev has made headlines throughout the war in Ukraine for regular social media rants that have ranged from calls for nuclear strikes on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members to suggestions that Moscow has no choice but to eliminate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Responding to a previous inquiry from Newsweek, the U.S. Department of State dismissed the seriousness of Medvedev’s various statements.
“We know by now not to take Medvedev seriously,” a department spokesperson wrote. “This is standard Kremlin nonsense.”
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The notion of a civil war in the U.S. has been brought up before by Russian officials. In December 2023, during an appearance on state-run television, Sergei Markov, a notably pro-Putin political scientist and former adviser to the Russian leader, said that such a development would be beneficial for Moscow and would see the conflict in Ukraine end in its favor in “one week.”
“We know if something really starts in America, civil war in Ukraine will stop one week later,” Markov said. “Zelensky and [Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii] Zaluzhny will race all the way over here…They would go to mediators and say, ‘Let’s immediately put an end to all this.’”
Trump says Putin agrees with him US should not have mail-in voting
By Reuters
August 15, 20259:31 PM PDTUpdated August 15, 2025
- Summary
- Trump says Putin told him vote-by-mail is risky
- US president pushing Republicans for election reforms
- Independent analysts say US voter fraud is rare
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.
“Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” after a nearly three-hour meeting between the leaders in Alaska. “He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now.”
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Trump, who promoted the false narrative that he, not Democrat Joe Biden, won the 2020 election, cited his agreement with Putin over absentee voting as he pressed his fellow Republicans to try harder to advance overhauls to the U.S. voting system that he has long sought.
Trump has voted by mail in some previous elections and urged his supporters to do so in 2024.
Putin, who has been Russia’s president or prime minister since 1999, was elected to another term in office with 87% of the vote in a 2024 election that drew allegations of vote rigging from some independent polling observers, opposition voices and Western governments. The most formidable opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic penal colony in 2024.
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Russia’s embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment on his conversation with Trump.
The Russian president has previously said some U.S. elections were marred by fraudulent voting, without presenting evidence. The position mirrors Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud following the 2020 election.
Justice Department and Senate investigations found that Moscow tried to influence campaigns to help Trump win in the 2016 election. U.S. intelligence officials have said they believe Russia tried to do the same in 2020 elections and preferred Trump to win in 2024.
Trump, who has not ruled out seeking a third term in office despite a constitutional prohibition, on Friday showed impatience with Republicans for not prioritizing election reform legislation.
“The Republicans want it, but not strongly enough,” Trump said during the interview. “You can’t have a great democracy with mail-in voting.”
Some Republicans, echoing Trump’s claims, argue that changes like restricting absentee voting and requiring identification could reduce the risks of ballot tampering, impersonation or other forms of fraud that independent analysts say is rare.
Nearly three dozen countries from Canada to Germany and South Korea allow some form of postal vote, though more than half of them place some restrictions on which voters qualify, according to the Sweden-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an intergovernmental advocacy group.
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