My take is that Trump's Russian financial backers, and perhaps even Vladimir Putin himself, were quite stung by his performance last night.
They saw the same sweaty, fidgety snort-nosed angry orange homunculus most of America saw.
In their eyes, I daresay Donald Trump looked WEAK.
And by virtue of his storied association WITH them, they also now look weak, weak and unprepared.
There is perhaps nothing that strikes to the heart of Russian anger than the appearance of weakness or the implication that they might not be prepared to do battle.
Instead of looking like a feared adversary, by betting on this arrogant tycoon, they are now forced to wear the Boris and Natasha costume in earnest.
Trump did more in one night to reduce the perception of the Russians to a cartoon than nearly thirty-five years of Cold War brinksmanship.
They didn't just bet on a horse that lost, they bet on a diseased one.
Betting on a Trump victory last night proves that the Russian assessment of American character is no better today than it was in 1962 when Kennedy forced Nikita Khrushchev to blink.
There was enough material from Trump last night for Seth Rogan to do another movie, only this time using Putin instead of Kim Jong Un.
But on a more serious note, Trump has also now exposed his own business empire to further dangers, too.
His penchant for importing underpaid foreign laborers to work his construction sites is now, and forever shall be, a conduit for sabotage, the kind which potentially endangers any ordinary American who might find themselves in or around any of his future building projects.
If the Russians can't just push him out of a helicopter over the Hudson, they will resort to other means, including the use of workers who will collude and conspire to create built-in time bombs in his physical infrastructure.
They will pay off any inspector or worker who does their bidding handsomely, and in true cloak and dagger style, they will cover their tracks, and Trump's own slavish devotion to dubious accountability will actually aid their evil efforts.
Last edited by Jeffery J. Haas; 09/27/16 06:59 PM.
