Putin's brazen airing of nude pics of Melania

HCR had a good explanation for the photos

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-11-2024


In Russia, Russian thinker Alexander Dugin explained the dramatic global impact of Trump’s win. “We have won,” Dugin said. “The world will be never ever like before. Globalists have lost their final combat.” Dugin has made his reputation on his calls for an “anti-American revolution” and a new Russian empire built on “the rejection of [alliances of democratic nations surrounding the Atlantic], strategic control of the United States, and the rejection of the supremacy of economic, liberal market values,” as well as reestablishing traditional family structures with strict gender roles.

Maxim Trudolyubov of the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan foreign affairs think tank, suggested Friday that Putin’s long-term goal of weakening the U.S. has made him more interested in dividing Americans than in any one candidate.

Indeed, rather than backing Trump wholeheartedly, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been undercutting him. He did not comment on Trump’s election until Thursday, when he said that the power of liberal democracies over world affairs is “irrevocably disappearing.” Although Ellen Nakashima, John Hudson, and Josh Dawsey of the Washington Post reported that Trump and Putin had spoken on Thursday, Putin denied such a call as “pure fiction.”

Exacerbating America’s internal divisions and demonstrating dominance over both the U.S. and Trump might explain why after Trump became president-elect, laughing Russian media figures showed viewers nude pictures of Trump’s third wife, Melania, taken during her modeling career.

In an interview, Putin’s presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev said today: "To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them." Meanwhile, U.S. and Ukrainian officials report that Russia has massed 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean soldiers, to reclaim territory in the Kursk region of Russia taken this year by Ukrainian forces.

Just try to think about what you would say if this was the wife of a Democrat

There’s your misogyny right there.

And I was being sarcastic. Mostly.

That along with the statement posted above, tells me that Putin is making sure Trump knows that he owes him and that if he doesn’t follow along Putin will tell us more.

Sounds like you don’t like Melania very much and don’t hold a very high opinion of her…and from what I’ve read on this board over the years, never have even when she was First Lady. I think that can be construed as misogyny too. 

But you sure are jumping all over the fact that someone in putins regime threw those photos of her out there. Photos, I might add, weren’t private and anyone who wanted to see them, could. The timing is amazing, don’t ya think??

To repeat, the reasons we don’t like Melanie have nothing to do we what she looks like. We don’t like her because of what she did or didn’t do when she was First Lady.

She wore a jacket saying I don't care, do you? To a shelter for children inhumanely separated from their parents.

Her bullying campaign was a joke, look who she is married to. The sheer hypocrisy of her coming out against bullies is unbelievable.

She was recorded complaining about the fucking Christmas decorations?

Like her husband, she whined and complained about how she was mistreated and claimed she was a victim

Just to be clear, for me as well, I don't disrespect her nude photos either. I disrespect Melania because she is a horrible human being.

I absolutely think it was a political move.  I’m guessing that Putin himself didn’t put those pics out there. But some on this thread compared the photos as porn and then attacked Melania’s character and ran with that. So they made it about her. 

And that eats away at him. Sure, he’s going to be President again, but all that homegrown admiration isn’t going to make up for the fact that his actual peers - the leaders of other countries around the world - despise him. He’s always wanted to be in the big boys' club, and even though his position technically means that he is, he also knows they will never accept him, never see him as one of them. Which leads me to wonder how he will repay them for their exclusion. He has no idea how international diplomacy works, even after four years in power. He's like the petulant little boy who takes his ball back and goes home. And that’s what terrifies the rest of us. 

No, there's nothing "amazing" about the timing of the release of the photos.  Putin controls the media and is responsible for the release.  The photos are a reminder to Trump that Putin is in charge and the power he has over Trump.  Nothing amazing about the fact that Trump is Putin's puppet, beholden to him, indebted to him.  

Why?

Based on what evidence?

We clearly stated at least twice our objections to Melania

On his dealings with putin in his last presidency

I have posted before last week. Or this week. It’s easy to check. I already answered about the win. Twice.