Tatsiana Ketrar
After Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States of America, numerous representatives of the international expert community have been disputing over whether his policies are going to match those promised by him during the 2016 election campaign. Among other related issues, the experts have been actively discussing the threats to the international mass media and the entire global security coming from the possibility of closer ties between Moscow and Washington.
Among the key issues on the agenda are the hacker attacks on the USA that allegedly were initiated by Russia and helped Trump win the election in exchange for his loyalty to Russia. Some of the experts say that without getting familiar with the data provided by American secret agencies, it’s difficult to figure out whether this is really true. Without this, it’s too premature to say that Trump and Putin have been involved in some conspiracy against the USA the Western world in general.
Others underline the fact that the secret agencies were focused on the very fact of those hacker attacks instead of focusing on their degree of the impact made on the latest presidential election in the United States. That’s why they hope that the special investigation initiated by the Senate is going to find out the truth. For those of you who don’t know, the purpose of the investigation is to find out the degree of the impact. The public version of the CIA report doesn’t look consistent at best. Some experts believe that this has to do with the fact that the secret agency is reluctant to make public the sources of information and the ways of obtaining the information.
At the same time, some other experts draw our attention to the fact that the initial source of information about Russia’s involvement in the hacker attacks was a private company named CrowdStrike, not the CIA. To be more specific, they say that Putin and his mates are former members of the Russian secret service, which influenced the ways and means they had chosen to reach to goals in the international arena. They say, even Putin himself was surprised with the end result since he didn’t expect those attacks to be such a huge success. However, they experts say that now that everyone seems to have figured out what secret games Moscow has been playing so far, the EU and the rest of the Western world will be able to stay alert. There are experts that say that Putting has some compromising evidences on President Trump, which is why Washington is likely to stay loyal to Moscow.
Anyway, the international expert community is mostly inclined to think that Trump’s policies are going to be based on ideas and principles rather than deals. At the same time, they are afraid that the freedom of speech in America is in jeopardy since Trump is very sensitive about what they say about him in the media.
Tatsiana Ketrar
