“I’m surprised — I’m surprised. I thought he was negotiating when he sent his troops to the border. I thought he was negotiating,” Trump told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday evening during a wide-ranging telephone interview from Mar-a-Lago, his private social club and political headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida. “I thought it was a tough way to negotiate but a smart way to negotiate.”
“I figured he was going to make a good deal like everybody else does with the United States and the other people they tend to deal with — you know, like every trade deal. We’ve never made a good trade deal until I came along,” Trump added. “And then he went in — and I think he’s changed. I think he’s changed. It’s a very sad thing for the world. He’s very much changed.”
Russia initiated an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 after months of saber-rattling by Putin. The war sparked intense backlash in the West and unified NATO countries. The United States and European nations responded with severe diplomatic and economic sanctions while funneling military aid to Ukraine to help Kyiv resist Russian aggression. On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to deliver a virtual address to a joint session of Congress.
You know who wasn't surprised? People who weren't thinking Putin was one of their little world leader friends, like Biden didn't. Trump thought that bargaining off the land of a sovereign state was just a real estate deal--this from the guy who wanted to buy Greenland, and shut up, that is never not going to be my go-to "Trump is a fucking moron" thing.
(Also, can anyone tell us what trade deal Trump made that was good? Because no. That's not a thing.)
But the stupid thing about Trump is, he doesn't seem to get that the reason Putin didn't get his way was because people said "no." Among them, Biden said "no", a thing Trump never would have done. Because in Trump's second term, we all know he would have exited NATO by now and been out of the concern, and never would have needed to say "no". And this violation of Ukraine would happen with only Europe in their corner and less resolve to supply them with needed military support.
Fuck Trump's claims about supplying Javelins during his administration, which he only did after Congress approved it, and he was caught trying to hold that up in an extortion scheme. Biden is supplying every kind of support he can. Diplomatically, financially, and the threat of military support if Article 5 is triggered. Trump didn't know what Article 5 was about.
People who understood very well what was happening when Putin/Russian trolls supported Right Wing candidates worldwide should get heard now. They weren't surprised.
I'm not surprised. Putin laid in an attempt at creating an ideal political space to get his overreach accepted by manipulated poltroons, but because his various schemes totally failed, he realized the terrain was only gonna get worse and stupidly, went for it. And now his dick is in a blender set to frappe.
I mean, it ought to be. Even if we have yet to see someone press the button on that.
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"i figured he was going to make a good deal like everybody else does with the United States and the other people they tend to deal with — you know, like every trade deal. we’ve never made a good trade deal until I came along..."
what. the. actual. fuck?
is thatenglish?!?
what does that even MEAN?
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