Advisers say that Trump regularly makes the same policy promises on the campaign trail that he does behind closed doors with wealthy donors, and evidence has not emerged that Trump has directly linked a specific policy outcome to a specific donation. Oftentimes, his comments at the events are about foreign policy and topics he discusses at rallies, such as inflation and immigration. For example, at one event, he suggested that he would have bombed Moscow and Beijing if Russia invaded Ukraine or China invaded Taiwan, surprising some of the donors.
Yes, USSR, but effectively the Novo-Russki empire of the time, so I call it Russia.
Good point, the Russians would have taken as much as possible. Every empire does.
There were still communists in Germany even during the Nazi time, but underground. They gladly helped set up East Germany after the war.
Also interesting: the Nazi responsible for preventing the Soviets from spying on German weapons manufacturing was himself sending all that info to Russia, but just for money and not out of ideology:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/trump-wealthy-donors-fundraising/