• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

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

    • khannie@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

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

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    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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      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.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months 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.

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    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.

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        Ah, and he won’t be able to realize that either.

        But I have a feeling when more countries with well respected leaders say the same thing, and state the same thing to appeal to his ego, it will further cement the idea in Trump’s mind, that Putin “cheated him”.

        I don’t have high expectations, but let’s see how it plays out.

        But to be clear, if something else were to remove Trump from being the problem I wouldn’t oppose that either.