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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

How Trump’s ‘America First’ MAGA movement turned the Republican Party into an ‘arm of the Kremlin’

Donald Trump’s Oval Office attack on Ukraine’s president last month appeared to mark a very public realignment of America’s sympathies - away from Europe and towards Russia in a manner that few could have imagined during the Cold War years.

The Republican Party, now dominated by Trump’s “America First” MAGA movement, once considered the former Soviet Union “the evil empire” under Ronald Reagan and relished its collapse.

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