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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Feb 26, 2026, 03:19 PM 4 hrs ago

Putin's Top Officials Laugh About How Dumb Trump Is Behind His Back

Vladimir Putin’s top aides are snickering behind Donald Trump’s back because they think the Russian tyrant is playing the MAGA leader like a fiddle.

British spies have repeatedly shared with their U.S. counterparts intercepted calls and texts between ranking Kremlin officials ridden with laughter at what they perceive as Trump’s willingness to take Putin at his word on his invasion of Ukraine.

“We have continually shown them intelligence that shows the Russians are lying,” a senior UK security official told The Spectator on Thursday. “The Russians are privately mocking Trump over his naivety about Putin’s intentions. Putin doesn’t want to end the war.”

Trump has long expressed admiration for Putin, an accused war criminal who presides over one of the most brutal autocracies on the planet, while lambasting Ukraine, a U.S. ally, amid the Russian president’s years-long invasion of the embattled Eastern European country.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/putin-top-officials-laugh-dumb-125711379.html

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Putin's Top Officials Laugh About How Dumb Trump Is Behind His Back (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 4 hrs ago OP
Got to admit, Americanme 4 hrs ago #1
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