• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    Let’s see if Trump reverts to his old position again in a couple of days.
    I don’t trust anything Trump says, he also said to multiple major European leaders, that he would sanction Russia if they didn’t agree to a ceasefire.
    A week has gone by, and as usual Trump has done nothing to help Ukraine.

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    The best case scenario is that Trump really was such a moron as to believe Putin wanted peace and now feels betrayed and does a 180 on Ukraine policy. Much more likely he will stay the course on screwing Ukraine.

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      I think it’s less of “Putin wanted peace”, but that “Putin is amenable to peace if he gets everything he wants”, which might have even been true before the Russian economy got so wrecked that stopping the war would crash it.

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    I admire the take that Trump is able to realize stuff.

    But I’m not very hopefull

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    It is just time to play both sides and make it out like DT is reasonable. He has done nothing to reign in Russia and I highly doubt he would do anything but a symbolic gesture.

    This is just a White House propaganda piece. Make people doubt his allegiance to Russia. A big waste of our time, but that appears to be the point.

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      They were even spared from the “universal” tariffs lmao

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      Propaganda is useful. It might be wrong, but there is a specific reason they’re saying it.

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    Trump is such a fucking gullible, demented moron. The only people dumber than him are the people that voted for him.

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    Yeah, but Zelenskyy didn’t wear a suit or thank trump himself publicly for the hundredth time, so I’m sure trump is still team Putin.

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      this is strategic. By appealing to his ego, he can tell trump that putin has been lying, while calling trump smart for realizing it instead of calling him gullible for not realizing it.

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        Ah, and he won’t be able to realize that either.

        But I have a feeling when more countries with well respected leaders say the same thing, and state the same thing to appeal to his ego, it will further cement the idea in Trump’s mind, that Putin “cheated him”.

        I don’t have high expectations, but let’s see how it plays out.

        But to be clear, if something else were to remove Trump from being the problem I wouldn’t oppose that either.

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    French President Emmanuel Macron believes US President Donald Trump has finally realised that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been deceiving him.

    Oh my no… The cognitive dissonance will take over. Trump will be back to blaming Ukraine and talking about how wonderful Putin is again in short order

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    Please.

    The sole redeeming factor about Trump is being extremely unpredictable. He is a quintessentially ignorant American in that way. No one can reliably control him, he will flip-flop between diametrically opposed positions at will.

    Hopefully chaos impersonated will turn on Putin for a while. Hell, if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent he may be able to harm Russia more than Biden ever did.

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      The sole redeeming factor

      yeah I really don’t see this as a redeeming factor but I don’t disagree with the overall premise

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      if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent

      Can you really be said to ignore something if you are totally ignorant of its existence?