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Trump Is Copycatting Putin in Every Way Possible

Federalized National Guard becomes Trump’s police force.

3 min readJun 11, 2025
Courtesy of the Moscow Times

It began in the winter of 2011. Massive protests against Putin in the center of Moscow rocked the country, and scared the hell out of rat-sized coward today genociding the Ukrainian people. Hundreds of thousands of middle-class “Moscovites” came out and demanded an end to the corruption and lies of Putin. Most Russians had been happy with Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency, and they wanted Putin to go away.

Putin acted quickly, but in the shadows, the way rats always do. He created a personal police force known as the “Gvardia,” which would eventually become the lawless army of thugs seen above in black. He ordered the creation of a massive technological security apparatus that would be deployed against the Russian people. He weeded out and killed off everyone who could challenge him for power; and he blamed Hillary Clinton for the protests that almost ended his corrupt and destructive rule of the Russian nation. The U.S. had nothing to do with the protests in Moscow, just like a few years later, they had nothing to do with the protests in Kyiv. We aren’t that organized and efficient.

From 2011 forward, the laws against protesting for any reason were whittled down to the point where, by the start of the war in 2022, if two…

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B Kean
B Kean

Written by B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.

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