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发帖数: 59 | 1 Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war
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By Andrew Osborn | MOSCOW
Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being
dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally
of President Vladimir Putin who likes to compare himself to the U.S.
Republican candidate.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery
rhetoric, told Reuters in an interview that Trump was the only person able
to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington.
By contrast, Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton could spark World War
Three, said Zhirinovsky, who received a top state award from Putin after his
pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) came third in Russia'
s parliamentary election last month.
Many Russians regard Zhirinovsky as a clownish figure who makes outspoken
statements to grab attention but he is also widely viewed as a faithful
servant of Kremlin policy, sometimes used to float radical opinions to test
public reaction.
"Relations between Russia and the United States can't get any worse. The
only way they can get worse is if a war starts," said Zhirinovsky, speaking
in his huge office on the 10th floor of Russia's State Duma, or lower house
of parliament.
"Americans voting for a president on Nov. 8 must realize that they are
voting for peace on Planet Earth if they vote for Trump. But if they vote
for Hillary it's war. It will be a short movie. There will be Hiroshimas and
Nagasakis everywhere."
Zhirinovsky's comments coincide with deep disagreements between Washington
and Moscow over Syria and Ukraine and after the White House last week
accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party
organizations.
Even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Clinton
’s campaign on Wednesday, Putin insisted his country was not involved in an
effort to influence the U.S. presidential election.
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Zhirinovsky likes to shock liberal public opinion and he has frequently
heaped scorn on the West, which he and other Russian nationalists regard as
decadent, hypocritical and corrupted by political correctness.
His combative style, reminiscent of Trump's, ensures him plenty of
television air time and millions of votes in Russian elections, often from
the kind of blue-collar workers who are the bedrock of the U.S. Republican
candidate's support.
Zhirinovsky once proposed blocking off mostly Muslim southern Russia with a
barbed wire fence, echoing Trump's call for a wall along the U.S. border
with Mexico.
Zhirinovsky, who said he met Trump in New York in 2002, revels in his
similarities with the American businessman - they are the same age, favor
coarse, sometimes misogynistic language and boast about putting their own
country first. Zhirinovsky has even said he wants a DNA test to see if he is
related to Trump.
But unlike Trump, a billionaire real estate developer who casts himself as
the anti-establishment candidate in the U.S. presidential race with no past
political experience, Zhirinovsky is a consummate political insider who has
sat in the Duma for more than two decades.
Putin has also praised Trump as "very talented", while the Republican
candidate has said the Kremlin boss is a better leader than U.S. President
Barack Obama. Clinton has accused Trump of being too cozy with Putin and
questioned his business interests in Russia.
In other comments that have delighted Moscow, Trump has questioned the value
of NATO for Washington, has spoken ambiguously about Russia's 2014
annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and suggested that the United States under
his leadership would adopt a more isolationist foreign policy.
"He (Trump) won't care about Syria, Libya and Iraq and why an earth should
America interfere in these countries? And Ukraine. Who needs Ukraine?," said
Zhirinovsky, who once counted himself a friend of Iraq's Saddam Hussein and
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and whose deaths he still laments.
"Trump will have a brilliant chance to make relations more peaceful ... He's
the only one who can do this," he said, adding that Trump could even win a
Nobel peace prize.
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CLINTON "CRAVES POWER"
In contrast, Zhirinovsky described Clinton as "an evil mother-in law" and
said her record as secretary of state under Obama in 2009-2013 showed she
was unfit to lead her country.
"She craves power. Her view is that Hillary is the most important person on
the planet, that America is an exceptional country, as Barack Obama said,"
said Zhirinovsky. "That's dangerous. She could start a nuclear war."
In typically chauvinistic remarks, Zhirinovsky said Clinton's gender should
also bar her from the presidency.
"Most Americans should choose Trump because men have been leading for
millions of year. You can't take the risk of having one of the richest, most
powerful countries led by a woman president," he said.
Asked about lewd comments Trump made about women in 2005 that have harmed
his campaign, Zhirinovsky defended the Republican: "Men all round the world
sometimes say such things that are just for their comrades. We must only
consider his business (and political) qualities."
Though Putin and Trump have never met, Zhirinovsky said he believed they
could establish a close working relationship, adding: "Victory for Trump
would be a gift to humanity. But if Hillary Clinton wins it will be the last
U.S. president ever." | f*******a
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