Trump thinks Putin is his friend. The Russians just issued a humiliating statement to the contrary.
Trump thinks Putin is his friend. The Russians just issued a humiliating statement to the contrary.
Russia is claiming credit for Trump’s win. It’s a cheap ploy.
Summary
Putin’s actions after Trump’s election, including a delayed congratulations and a denial of a phone call, suggest a lack of respect for Trump’s personal relationship with him.
Russia’s intelligence chief’s statement that Trump owes them favors for their support in his election, along with hints that he is expected to “pay back” certain obligations, amounts to a bold threat of blackmail.
Trump’s foreign policy, which favors a realignment with Russia, may be challenged by Putin’s actions and the revelation of Russian interference in the election.
I'm not a master diplomat but this is negotiation 101: don't look too keen to negotiate, start from a position of strength.
Trump's opening offer was to allow Putin to keep whatever he's managed to invade and, by most accounts, Russia is now gaining territory again. Plus, Trump is clearly not so keen to continue supporting Ukraine militarily and economically (not to speak of his stance on NATO) and in Europe we are weak, divided and also increasingly voting for our own small versions of Trump (Trumpets?). Put these things together and why would Putin get all chummy and sit down to negotiate now? He's signaling strength and taking a position of "YOU want to end this war, not me, so if you want me to stop, you better come begging and bringing gifts".
“Russia’s intelligence chief, [Nikolai Patrushev], made the following comment in an interview with the Moscow newspaper Kommersant:
‘The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.’”
This sounds less psychological & more like an official confident that no one will do a damned thing about it.
While I'm sure Trump used Russia's help, but this statement is for Russians to believe they're some sort of masters of the world. I wouldn't read too much into that statement because it's just fucming propaganda aimed at Russia, be it true or not. What else is there to gain by potentially exposing their greatest asset? They surely can reach him, a publicity stunt isn't how you send a message to Trump.
Trump was never under the impression that anyone is his friend. All his relationships, including to his wife and biological children, are transactional.
Russia has dirt on him and has for a loooong time. That's why Putin doesn't need to suck his dick like the rest of the world's wannabe dictators do.
I’m nearly certain it is true that Russia has dirt on him. But serious question: what possible dirt on trump could even slightly alter his base in the United States? I’m not convinced anything could. They could have videos of him raping an entire kindergarten class and his cult wouldn’t care. So at this point, what power does Putin actually hold? Trump (in theory) could tell Putin to fuck off and that would be the end of it.
I think it’s admiration and not blackmail that keeps trump sucking Putin’s dick. I think Trump looks at Russia and wishes he could have the same unchecked power that Putin has and so he looks up to him.
Seriously great question at this point. In 2016 it was commonly accepted knowledge that if Putin released a video of Trump getting pissed on by a woman in a Moscow hotel, that would be the end of his political career.
Since then, he's been found to be a rapist in court, has attempted to overthrow the government, and has been found guilty of about 3 dozen felonies with more charges pending - which doesn't matter any way since Trump's judges have granted him legal immunity to anything he wants to do. And he was just convincingly reelected with his party winning both the House and Senate.
At the point, Putin could put out a video of him personally pegging Trump, and it would make no difference.
The pee tapes might be weird enough for Trump to want to keep them hidden, if they exist.
I don't think Trump is capable of admiration, and I also don't think it's dirt keeping him in check.
It might simply be that Trump is that stupid. The parallels between descriptions of Trump and Hitler are striking as well.
If Trump doesn't respond to the international humiliation it will be intentional, otherwise if he got his way with the Unitary Executive Power, then he'd just glass Russia and be free from that chain (while probably getting lots of us killed).
The only thing we know for certain is Russian propaganda is rarely intended for Western audiences.
I don't think he's capable of having friends, but the dictators of the world are filling the daddy's-love-shaped hole in his orange heart, so he defers to them in vain hope that he'll feel something he never got as a kid.
Does Trump think Putin is his friend or does Trump need to pretend for his own ego's sake that the man he's taking orders from or else also likes him?
This is an old one, but I always enjoy telling it in new contexts:
Trump walks outside the White House aimlessly. He slowly picks up a stone, inspects it closely, then puts it back and continues his slow walk.
Vance is worried and calls the Kremlin for help.
"We'll look into it, Mr. Vance... hang on... Oh. We're terribly sorry, the fault is ours. By mistake we've sent him the instructions meant for Lunokhod.
Putin just showed naked pictures of his wife on Russian TV. That is not something a "friend" does.
Trump used to have sex with his "friend's" wives. So this actually seems something he'd be used to.
This was obvious and it’s still obvious that your country cucked itself to the world pariah stupidpower when it was at one of its lowest times. On purpose. Oooh so tough.
Losers.
So, we think Russia and Putin are telling the truth NOW?
When you're destabilizing and spreading misinformation, you just want people at each other's throats, so they aren't at yours.
It's idiotic to follow Russia or Putin News. There's nothing there but outage fodder... for both sides.
Russian propaganda never tells the truth. It's always a flower basket of bullshit that idiots of different flavors can jump on to. Perfect bluff, no one knows what they are planning.
Or they are drunk uncles with zero brain cells. That's also a possibility.
Wer're just one week after the elections and the amount of shit we're already seeing surpasses my expectatives. The next 4 years are gonna be fun, really fun.
So much comes down to "is trump malicious or just an idiot?" His last term was largely idiocy, and if that repeats itself then I think things will be ok. My concern is that his rhetoric has turned more toxic, so I think he may have done so as well.
I think a lot of perceived malice is secondary to his selfishness and utter disregard for anyone or anything outside his extremely small inner circle (and even then, he has no qualms shoving them out).
He's the kind of guy that would forge his own grandma's checks to have money for the casino. Not that his intent to hurt his grandma, how she feels is a thought that doesn't enter his head. He just needs money and there's money and that's the extent of his capacity to empathize. If he gets caught he'll lie or rationalize. He's not the bad guy for doing it, they're the bad people who caught him and made such a big deal out of it.
Basic sociopath. He did so many unquestionably immoral and illegal things but didn't even think to keep his fingerprints off of everything. He doesn't even think about how others would perceive him and thus doesn't even make a half-assed attempt to cover his tracks.
Not to say he's not intentionally malicious, but usually that's aimed at victims after they speak out, because in his mind, they're the bad guys. He can't comprehend how others think, or even that people could think or behave differently than him, so he just assumes a whole lot of other people do the same exact stuff and feels like he's being singled out. There's a module in his brain that never got wired
Yet he still managed to overturn Roe, stack the scotus and thousands of judgeships for a generation, and sabotage countless government agencies which has been a nightmare for our rights, environment, and the rule of law. We're still feeling the repercussions and this time is shaping up to be an order of magnitude worse.
the leopards do not eat because they are hungry. they eat because they can.
Those leopards are gonna be so full from all the faces
Didn’t Russia cuck him by showing off his “wife”s nudes on state sponsored news?
“wife”s nudes on state sponsored news?
I doubt he cares about that at all... kinda shocked he doesn't just come out and say yeah, that's what I'm fucking.
Then again, that was just their warning shot that they're serious. If they have something more substantial...
Fucking duh
That is exactly what the word friend means to them.
trump assumes that because he sucks up, that putin is his peer. putin knows how easy trump is to manupulate, this first act after him winning shows that he knows exactly how to play him. my hope is that trump is too stupid to realize it because else there will be a dick waving contest among the two most nuclear armed countries in history..
Russian Carols this new precedential cycle....."oh he's my bitch! Oh he's my bitch! I'm gonna fuck'm real good! 🎵 🎶
(Read in the tune of the "oh Christmas tree" song)
Putin will use him.
i think the best-case scenario from all of this is that trump decides to continue supporting ukraine just to spite putin. i dont even want to think about what the worst-case scenario might be
So the story goes, they have blackmail against him. Then he made some comments that he might not pay up after getting in. When they released blackmail, it was in order to make sure he pays, not to just call retribution. They have more, he's their sock puppet.
Considering presidential immunity and that soon every high ranking official in the country will be selected based only on how loyal (I had a different term in mind, bit I didn't want you to imagine Trump in that situation) they are, I don't think there's any blackmail strong enough.
He's going to ruin people's life's purely for his ego and possibly greed
The orange fool only has a tools relationship with pootin. Never been more than that