Donald Trump. PAimages/Evan Vucci. All rights reserved.As the US presidential race is nearing its final stage, the suspense is mounting on a global scale. Non-American observers, in particular, remain puzzled over the foreign policy agendas of the two candidates.
A long sequence of commentaries in the international press have hinted at the ‘suspicious’ admiration that Donald Trump has often displayed towards the Russian president. Meanwhile, certain populist and more extremist right-wing parties across Europe have voiced, to varying degrees, their preference for the Republican nominee.
Consequently, some commentators rushed to interlink these parties’ favourable inclination towards Trump with their simultaneous endorsement of Vladimir Putin. However, can one speak of an almost logical and standard correlation between support for Donald Trump and admiration for Vladimir Putin among the populist and radical right?
