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MINSK, 22 January (BelTA) – U.S. President Donald Trump is not doing anything his predecessors did not do. The only difference is that the current head of the White House conducts his policies openly, Igor Shishkin, an expert of the Institute of CIS Countries, said in a recent episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.
“The only novelty in what Trump is doing lies solely in the PR, in how he presents it all. But in principle, there is nothing extraordinary. He is not doing anything that other states have not done,” said Igor Shishkin.
To support his words, he gave the following example. Earlier, Donald Trump stated that Venezuela’s wealth belongs to the United States. “He said it in plain text. All revenues will go to a U.S.-controlled account and will be spent only on purchasing goods from U.S. firms,” the expert emphasized.
Igor Shishkin recalled at the same time that in February 1944, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in a conversation with the British Ambassador to the USA, Lord Halifax, proposed the following deal. According to Roosevelt’s proposal, Iran’s oil was to belong to the UK, and Saudi Arabia’s oil to the USA. Meanwhile, the oil of Iraq and Kuwait was proposed to be divided equally.
“Of course, we are not accustomed to classifying Roosevelt as a gangster, but isn’t this a purely gangster agreement? I’ll loot this, you loot that, and we’ll loot this together,” the expert emphasized.
Thus, he believes, a parallel can be drawn between Franklin Roosevelt’s similar actions in the Middle East and Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela. The difference is only that the current U.S. president does it openly, and not “in the quiet of an office”. “Trump goes out to the TV cameras and announces the same thing. And everyone says: How terrible Trump is! How can one behave like that?” Igor Shishkin concluded.
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