Make the most of the time and opportunities you are given, including the opportunities to help others and to make the world a little better, if only by sweeping back for a little while the tide of ignorance and fear and greed that dominates human affairs.
![In February 2025, The Hill reported on three cases where claims were made by ex-KGB officials that Trump had been cultivated, recruited (with the codename "Krasnov" [a]) in 1987, and/or compromised. The aforementioned claims by Shvets, which were also a significant basis for Craig Unger's best-selling book, American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery, were also backed by Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence service, and Sergei Zhyrnov, an ex-KGB officer living in France. 261 Mussayev also asserted that Trump is compromised:
I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the
US President, that over the course of many years the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of President of the main world power. 21]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fepeqcqoauuabrut6prlz5fq/bafkreie3eomlepnkvf7xypzggbekrpva2dpr5hjdz3ovjzlkhqxfbavgiy)
