Suspicions about Trump's past as a KGB agent
It's unsettling to see Donald Trump meeting with Viktor Orbán and promising him flexibility so that Hungary can continue buying gas and oil from Russia, despite the sanctions against Putin, circumventing US proposals to end the war in Ukraine. And all this knowing, as Trump knows very well, that Orbán's Hungary is a center of espionage that has the institutions of the European Union in its sights. Trump knows that FSB agents move freely in Budapest, and he surely doesn't care. It neither moves him nor affects him. He carries the accusation of having collaborated with the Kageb regime almost four decades ago. For thirty-eight years, and in different guises, the US president would have been the agent Krasnov..
The one who asserts this with conviction is Alnur Mussayev, former director of Kazakhstan's security committee. Mussayev repeatedly testifies—most recently in February 2025—that in 1987 Donald Trump was recruited and hired as a KGB spy under the codename Krasnov. Although Mussayev's claims lack any evidence and are therefore merely suspicions, the Kazakh KGB official attempts to present a clue by claiming that Krasnov's file has been removed from the FSB archives and transferred to a department directly managed by Vladimir Putin. Putin's silence is also unsettling because, if Trump isn't Krasnov, what would it cost the Russian president to utter a few generously improvised phrases that represent a whitewashing of the US president? Especially considering the fervor and admiration Trump has shown him.
At this point, it's inevitable to consider that if Trump has been carrying the label of Kagebista with varying degrees of intensity, it's because we're dealing with a rather complicated and unpredictable character, capable of generating all sorts of assumptions. The Trump member of Epstein's sex abuse ring It could be as plausible as Trump collaborating with the KGB. It would even be plausible that, even if he weren't, he might one day—why not?—use it for his own interests.
Tim Weiner, journalist for New York TimesPulitzer Prize winner and author of the book The mission [The mission] confronts the Trump-Krasnov story with pragmatism and a critical eye. It reminds us that, since there is no proof, we can only speak of what is clear and evident. Weiner says that Donald Trump is not an agent, but an ally who detests the CIA and the FBI precisely because they investigated and revealed that The Kremlin helped him win the 2016 electionsThe Russian hackers accomplished their mission to to squander Hillary Clinton's campaignFor Tim Weiner, rather than delving into the character of Krasnov, what needs to be done is to find out and become aware of how Putin "has been playing Trump like a violin for years."
Statements like Tim Weiner's, coupled with the assumptions, suspicions, and indications surrounding Krasnov, disqualify Donald Trump from promoting peace in Ukraine, as he has been unsuccessfully attempting. Putin has recognized this, and it has cost him nothing to resurrect old Cold War rivalries—especially nuclear ones—and make it clear that in Ukraine, he will either achieve victory or freeze the current trench warfare.with some assaults like the one in Pokrovsk– while making it fly Drones in the skies of EuropeOr he must desperately stop those Ukraine is throwing at him. The Russian dictator's main goal is to buy time, despite risking damage to the hitherto good relationship with the American autocrat. And here an old question arises again: How long will Putin and Trump remain friends?