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Who are the figures pushing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin together?

Face masks depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump at a souvenir street shop in St Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Dec 23, 2016


The subject of whether Russia's pioneer Vladimir Putin has got material with which he could coercion Donald Trump is until further notice mysterious and overlooks what's really important by a long distance: the two men think alike.

Mr Trump's confidence in American traditionalism and abhorrence of examination reverberate the Kremlin's tune: country, power and repugnance for feedback are the new (and extremely Russian) world request.

You could call this mentality Trumputinism.

The reverberate between the Kremlin and Trump Tower is solid, getting louder and, uplifting news for Mr Putin.

As Trump motioned to Michael Gove on Monday, another atomic arms decrease bargain is by all accounts in the offing connected to a survey of approvals against Russia.

The pooch that did not bark in the night is Mr Trump's exceptional nonattendance of feedback of Mr Putin, for instance, on the Russian hacking of American majority rule government, his territory snatch of Crimea and his part in the proceeding with war in Eastern Ukraine.

What is odd is that Mr Trump, in his tweets, supports the Russia line over, say, the CIA and whatever is left of the American knowledge group.

Be that as it may, why in the world censure the world pioneer with whom you generally concur?

Three men have egged along Trumputinism: Nigel Farage, who is certain that the European Union is a far greater risk to world peace than Russia; his companion, Steve Bannon, who is presently Mr Trump's main strategist; and a Russian "penseur", Alexander Dugin.

With his long hair and notable Slavic looks, Mr Dugin is differently portrayed as "Putin's Brain" or "Putin's Rasputin".

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