Donald Trump's latest move on the geopolitical landscape has been to call for the arrest of Jewish-American-Hungarian magnate George Soros, whom he accuses of supporting violent popular mobilizations. As I write these lines, I know I'm embracing aspects of journalist Félix Flores' analysis in The Vanguard when he explains how Trump, by pointing to Soros as a member of organized crime, is giving Putin a splendid gift. Donald Trump never fails to take into account what pleases his friend Vladimir, as he calls him.
George Soros has been accused for years of provoking social unrest for personal economic gain. A formulation that hides the fact that the Old tycoon, 95, defends capitalismYes, but only if it is accompanied by democratic structures. That's why Putin had his vote in his favor since before the outbreak of the so-called "color revolutions," partly promoted by Soros. Particularly notable were the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003 and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004—a prelude to the process of distancing Kiev from Moscow—which would lead to the 2014 Maidan uprising and would culminate with Putin's attack of 2022.
As I said, George Soros had already intervened in the post-Soviet world long before. Soros dares to approach the oligarch Boris Berezovsky in the late 1990s because he knew he was creating the economic and political mechanisms that would enable Vladimir Putin—then head of the KGB—to rise to the top of the Russian state. Boris Yeltsin's regime was falling apart, and Soros thought he could make deals with Berezovsky.
But he had to admit, in a public statement, that the atmosphere he found in Moscow was so tense that during his conversation with Putin's godfather, he felt a certain fear. Soros speaks of genuine chills. Berezovsky achieved his goal, but once installed in the Kremlin, Putin refused to accept his demands, threw him out, and threatened to take him to the prosecutor's office. And Berezovsky fled to London with his loyal followers, including the agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died. poisoned with polonium 210, which he placed in the cup of tea the kagebista Putin's Andrei Lugovoi when they met at the Millennium Hotel in London.
Donald Trump's hostility towards George Soros is based on the fact that, being Jewish as he is, he declares himself anti-Zionist and supports Gaza. Since his founding of Open Society, Soros has reportedly sent almost fourteen million dollars to the Tides Center, an organization that finances protests against Israel. Some media outlets are not interpreting the facts simply and are insinuating that George Soros is an accomplice of Hamas.
Rather, Soros feels complicity with figures such as the American Warren Buffett, considered the most successful investor of the 20th century and, like Soros, hostile to authoritarian regimes. And since we're stirring things up in a world where money and politics mingle, Trump's warning to Soros has coincided with the news that he has appointed former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as an advisor to Trump. Who would have said that the man who was supposed to modernize social democracy with the help of the thinker Anthony Giddens would dedicate himself, with the help of Jared Kushner –Trump's son-in-law– to prepare projects on what the future of Gaza should be.Blair hasn't yet clarified whether he will consider the possibility of doing a Rivière, a Middle Eastern project along the lines of the person who currently pays him. The former Labour leader says he wants a better Gaza for Gazans, but doesn't specify anything. George Soros, though, has done so through the X network, not by speaking about Blair, but directly about Trump, telling him that "his narcissism has taken on pathological dimensions."
