Assuming Putin invades....how will Trump react?

[OAITW r.2.0]

Condemn or support Putin?

[underpants]

1. Hopefully Trump can find a good translator

So his message (that he gets from Putin) doesn’t sound like broken English

[lastlib]

2. Finances dictate that he support Vladdy-Daddy.

TDFG can't afford for his cash-cow to dry up.

[relayerbob]

3. Who cares?

I hope he's spending too much time in court and in jail to even be asked

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. You don't think comment fool will have a comment?

I do. Which way will Trump comment? Support Putin and confirm treason or support the USA and blow up his base?

[relayerbob]

12. Of course he'll have a comment. Most likely will be about himself.

In any case, whatever he says will be a lie, and his base will support whatever he says. Therefore, I ignore him as much as possible.

[brettdale]

4. Trump will do the very same thing

Faux News did today, and blamed Hunter.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. So Hunter is to blame for Putin's decision to invade the Ukraine?

That's going to be a very impressive linguistical case that Fox News will have to make. Hunter caused Russia's invasion to help his dad? Will that be the official position? Then Donald will be claiming this next week on his website.

[relayerbob]

14. Of course ...

The plan was all along was likely to keep Trump in office, use Hunter as the "proof" of Ukrainian corruption and then Russia move in, with Trump's support, to clean up the corruption. Putin thinks long term, and Trump's thought processes, such as they are, end within seconds of starting.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. Thoughtful response.

Putin's getting results without Trump in office.......even better!

[RockRaven]

6. Pardon my vulgarity, but his reaction will be...

mushroom spurts.

[lpbk2713]

7. Like he is now ...

Putin's man in Palm Beach.

[iemanja]

9. He'll say he could have stopped it if he had been president

Like everything else, he'll make it about himself.

[Silent3]

10. That it's wonderful that Putin gets Ukraine, and terrible Biden let it happen n/t

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. You could be working for the Twice Impeached President.

Your logic is impeccable....exactly like he'll probably respond.

[Nevilledog]

13. He'll support it AND say he could have stopped it

[Strelnikov_]

15. I think Putin is going to do a kompromat drop on Trump and other select politicians

The ones who will result in havoc being created in this country. Can you imagine the shit-storm when Trump is investigated for treason by a Biden Justice Department.

The others, the more 'reliable', Putin will continue to hold in his back pocket (although I would not consider Rand Paul reliable, but that's just me).

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. I can actually see that happening. Drop an evidence bomb concurrent to the invasion.

Maximum Chaos. For those that bite.

[hedda_foil]

17. 1) He'll blame Biden and 2) Brag about his own wondrous relationship with Putin in comparison.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. tRump always reacts in whatever he perceives is in his best interest and with.....

little or no consideration of others.

That's why no one should be listening to him for any reason.....

[OAITW r.2.0]

20. Is Trump capable of a nuanced political statement?

Fuck no, let Junior lead the charge!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. He's actually the reigning king of dog-whistle politics.

He must have been schooled by Spiro Agnew, one of the original kings.....



He's also the king of flim-flam. He'll figure out a way to pull off a huge grift during the Ukraine affair.

KY...........

[OAITW r.2.0]

24. Fucking been this way since I've been voting. My 1st vote was for George McGovern.

A WW2 bomber pilot that risked his life for months. While the actor tool Ron gladly provided the face. Then he became a Republican, And they have made sure it gets worse every decade after that.

[Wounded Bear]

21. IDGAF, but I assume he'll go on an "I told you so" tour of some kind...

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. Exactly, he predicted it.

And the idjits will believe him. We are fucked (WAF).

[Tommy Carcetti]

25. He'll offer zero sentiments of sympathy or support for the Ukrainian people, and...

…simply say Putin “respected” him and wouldn’t have invaded if he was President.

Take that to the bank.

[Hortensis]

26. Truth Social launches today, app available for download all weekend.

However he reacts, it'll be there. And on Fox, of course.

My guess is tfg'll posture presidential starting out following the standard formula for Russia's apologists/supporters in democracies:

Make the obligatory statement calling for peace and negotation and against invasion. Criticize Biden and other western democracies for forcing Russia to invade by not negotiating a reasonable solution.

Most revealing to me, as is understandably normal for American apologists for Russia's "security concerns," tRump will not point out that this is an authoritarian police-state oligarchy/socialist communist state that intends to destroy a liberal western democracy BECAUSE it's a democracy whose people chose to go their own way.

(Btw, "summit"? Who knows? Maybe a "reasonable" solution that saves (most of) Ukraine while not barring it from ever joining NATO may still be reached.)

[sarisataka]

27. Trump's opinion?