Fuck that headline. It was the president of Portugal.
“The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset,” de Sousa said, according to the Portugal Pulse’s report. “He operates as an asset.”
Great headline. It’s the only one that reaches instead of sanewashing.
Would it have killed them to say who, though?
Oh yeah, clicks.
Not a bad strategy, tbh.
It is an extremely obnoxious and shitty strategy
😱
And also he defined that term very specifically. He said only that Trump is acting in the best interests of Russia. When someone normally uses that language, they mean they are in the employ of a country, like a spy.
So, it’s meant to be inflammatory and spur action on the part of the US and Europe.
I saw another headline misquoted as “agent” instead of “asset”
Would be funnier if it was Putin.
This president is no joke, remember his epic handshake? https://youtu.be/sfrbogBg9dA
Before even clicking this I already knew Trump ain’t for the grip. Sure enough he proves 100% bitch made.
Unlike much clickbait, this one is true.
Furthermore, PPD/PSD is not the Socialist Party (that’s PS), it is the Popular Democratic Party/Social Democratic Party, but Montenegro’s wing (current PM of Portugal) is neoliberal, unlike Rio’s wing that still lived up to the name social democratic.
Not a single traditional party in Portugal has a name that matches the political ideology the practice:
- The “Socialist Party” (PS) one of the two dominant “center” parties is Neoliberal (as seen from their love for Privatisation and “Free Markets”).
- The “Social Democrat Party” (PSD) the other dominant “center” party is slightly more Neoliberal (roughly similar to the US Democrat Party mainstream, so PSD is actually to the Right of the Progressives in the US)
- The “Communist Party” (PC) love Putin, a Fascist and even their “leftwing” thinking is little more than Soviet Union slogans.
- The “Social and Democratic Center” (CDS) are the conservatives which in Portugal means the yearn for the previous regime (which were the Fascists)
Like in pretty much all other countries in the West the Overtoon Window has shifted rightwards, though even at the very beginning right after the Revolution in 1974 that overthrew the Fascist Dictatorship, the Socialist Party were never Socialists (it was the Communist Party that wanted a Revolution Of The Proletariat, not the Socialist Party) and similarly the Social Democrat Party was never Social Democrat (for example, they voted against the creation of a National Health Service in Portugal, the exact opposite of the Social Democrat ideals).
I think every world leader worth their salt knows trump kowtows to putin. Portugal got to say it out loud. I’m buying some of their wine this weekend.
No shit, Sherlock.
They picked the ugliest, nastiest motherfucker to keep us distracted.
Agent Fuckfaced Krasnov.
Joke is on you Nikki; I pissed on your burial site. Good luck pissing on my corpse, petulant bag o’ bones!!!
I’m pretty sure the joke is on the US electorate instead.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of Portugal
I was expecting that leader to be Putin like, “yeah, he’s my bitch.”
Xi wouldn’t like that.
Trump is Putin’s, but
Putin is Xi’s.
Look, it’s not the 1600s. Idk if I’d call Portugal a major world power. I’d never heard the man’s name before this. Anyways, yeah, that definitely happened.
He’s head of a western european state of 10M people. Portugal is mid-tier when it comes to most metrics In the EU, but they’re not no-one.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. I feel the same about Spain. Brazil is significantly more relevant than Portugal. They’re no Luxembourg, but they’re not Australia either.
Except being a LatAm country, they’re dismissed by the west.
You’d think so, and to an extent, you’re right. But I hear about it quite a bit, more positive than negative. Portugal? Nope. Nothing. I’m not sure I could name a person or fictional character from Portugal. Brazil, I know at least a few.
Captain Rodriguez from Shōgun immediately came to mind for me. I prefer John Rhys-Davies’s version over the newest on-screen rendition.
I looked that up, since I’ve never heard of it, apparently he was Portuguese in that version, but he was turned Spanish in the most recent version. Damn, stealing the Portuguese rep they need. I’d like to know more about modern Portugal. I’ll probably do a little bit of research today.
No, still Portuguese. The show opens with a explainer saying the Spanish went west and Portuguese went east due to the church decreeing how the world would be split amongst the two countries.
Spaniards were half a world away.
If an American doesn’t say, “Who?” when you say their name, then they’re a world power.
I feel like most Americans might remember the name from history class, but that’s about it.
I must ask, why did you focus on Portugal part of this article?
Surely the most important part is that a world leader called another world leader a russian asset?Probably because I heard about the news several days ago. I appreciate it though.
That’s why they used this term. If it were any place that you would unquestionably call a major world power, then they would have used the name on the title.
