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‘Disappointed’
Donald Trump's "disappointed" in Vladimir Putin. That's his word. Trump's. And I'm sure Putin's hear
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“Sociopaths turn on each other eventually. Always.” If Trump can unfriend Epstein, he certainly can unfriend Putin.
Or Elon…
I am no longer sure that in the end Trump will force Ukraine to surrender by cutting aid. Still might but it is no longer clear.
To add to that: I’m no longer sure that Europe couldn’t pick up the slack. Sure, with some notable lag time, but I think Trump’s strongest move -against- Putin was scaring Europe into thinking that the US is going to cut them off from our protection (racket). Irony is that it probably came at the behest of Putin, looking to rattle and maybe fragment Europe, but maybe Putin poked a stick into the wrong end of a sleeping animal. It’s not like he’s infallible just because he’s a ‘successful’ murderous tyrant.
I’m not unconvinced that both Europe and the US are just watching Putin smash his army into pieces, rather than stop him while he still has a (semi) functional military. Kind of like watching Israel de-fang Iran and it’s proxies, which we got to enjoy from a distance (ignoring the arms sales) until Trump decided that whatever Bibi said to him after “You are clearly the greatest world leader ever, and this will catapult you to that fame instantly” was ok by him.
The above said, I can see a scenario where Europe’s fear of losing US/NATO support finally struck home with them, that maybe they can’t afford more innocent Ukrainian lives and potential continental catastrophe by sitting back a bit and letting Putin defang himself. They just might surprise Putin and a lot of doubters.
Well, despite being flagged as being bronze-level irascible, I actually feel sorry for the man. He marched back into the White House hoping to display and build upon his close relationships with Putin. Bibi, Xi and Rocket Man.
It must be pretty damn humilating to find that the first two do not respect him. No?
Trump’s Monday show and tell; I visited a country where they all hate me, a lot. Then I got caught cheating at an historic golf course that I bought with Russian money. I rebranded it with my big beautiful name and the ungrateful Scots tore it off. On my flight home I realized my best foreign friend has been playing me and probably cost me a Nobel. It’s beyond unfair how poorly treated the best American president in history is. Now that the vacay is over I have to get back to beating up on the wretched, poor and downtrodden who do the backbreaking work no respectable racist white man will. To top it off I feel like all the world leaders laugh at me behind my back because I wear a baseball cap to every meeting. But I’ll have the last laugh when they see me in the big beautiful gold refurbished jet that Qatar grifted me.
Nice one 🙂