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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Putin didn't invade when I was President." Actually, he was waiting on your 2nd term.
The RW talking point implying that Putin didn't invade Ukraine under Trump because of Trump's strength is less plausible than maintaining Putin was waiting for Trump's second term so that the invasion wouldn't deliver Trump a fatal political blow while counting on the fact that Trump wouldn't have built a strong block of sanctioning nations including the thirty NATO partners.
Indeed, Putin was just as likely planning his invasion for March of last year!
orwell
(7,754 posts)...when someone is giving it to you...
Im sure TFG was trading Ukraine for a set of Trump/Putin towers across Russia.
orwell
(7,754 posts)...unless it came down to a business deal. Then he was suddenly an internationalist.
He didn't give a shit about Ukraine, until he needed "a favor."
This was the typical NY crime boss behavior that he learned of the "mean streets' of Manhattan.
Roy Cohn taught him well.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)What can you do for me today? He is 100% situational.
orwell
(7,754 posts)Salviati
(6,002 posts)tavernier
(12,322 posts)He was certain of a Trump win, and then the NATO dominoes would fall as quickly as rain on a summer morning. That didnt quite turn out as he wished, despite the screams of Election Fraud, but since he had revved himself up into wanting it, and believing that republicans wouldnt give Biden any support, he went for it.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,717 posts)But he sure enjoyed you bending the knee for him in Helsinki.
And abandoning our position in Syria.