• Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 days ago

    Trump’s not an idiot, he just plays one on TV. He wants to distance himself from Putin now for some reason. I’m not sure why, but I’m sure there is a reason.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 days ago

    Please.

    The sole redeeming factor about Trump is being extremely unpredictable. He is a quintessentially ignorant American in that way. No one can reliably control him, he will flip-flop between diametrically opposed positions at will.

    Hopefully chaos impersonated will turn on Putin for a while. Hell, if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent he may be able to harm Russia more than Biden ever did.

  • psychothumbs@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    The best case scenario is that Trump really was such a moron as to believe Putin wanted peace and now feels betrayed and does a 180 on Ukraine policy. Much more likely he will stay the course on screwing Ukraine.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      19 days ago

      I think it’s less of “Putin wanted peace”, but that “Putin is amenable to peace if he gets everything he wants”, which might have even been true before the Russian economy got so wrecked that stopping the war would crash it.

    • NotAGamer@lemmy.org
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      19 days ago

      Doesn’t need to. He has blackmail instead. He’ll call Trump within the week and Trump will suddenly be kissing Putin’s ass once again.

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        19 days ago

        Nah, Trump is just intimidated by Putin. He’s scared of him. There could be blackmail, but i doubt at this point that’s why he acts the way he does.

        He’ll kiss his ass because Putin is stronger than him and he knows it.

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      19 days ago

      “I believe that President Trump has realised that when President Putin told him he was ready for peace, he was lying,” Macron emphasised

  • blattrules@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Yeah, but Zelenskyy didn’t wear a suit or thank trump himself publicly for the hundredth time, so I’m sure trump is still team Putin.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    French President Emmanuel Macron believes US President Donald Trump has finally realised that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been deceiving him.

    Oh my no… The cognitive dissonance will take over. Trump will be back to blaming Ukraine and talking about how wonderful Putin is again in short order

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Let’s see if Trump reverts to his old position again in a couple of days.
    I don’t trust anything Trump says, he also said to multiple major European leaders, that he would sanction Russia if they didn’t agree to a ceasefire.
    A week has gone by, and as usual Trump has done nothing to help Ukraine.

  • John Richard@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    When they have the kompromat, they even let you be pretend mad from time to time. Talk is cheap though.