Where Do Things End With Vlad? (h/t romad1)

[gehringer_2]

The thing Putin needs to be careful of is that no-one should ever trust or rely on Trump holding to any position. On some whim he is just as likely to reverse course throw *Puitn* under the bus and support Ukraine as keep on his current course. He is utterly untrustworthy, from any direction. It is the natural consequence of being a totally transactional person. Since he believes in nothing, since nothing outside himself is of any importance to him, he simply doesn't have any actually loyalties, commitments, or any of the normal  character properties you expect a normal person to have. Putin may think he has a long term ally, for Trump such a term doesn't even have meaning.

Edited March 27 by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

10 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The thing Putin needs to be careful of is that no-one should ever trust or rely on Trump holding to any position. On some whim he is just as likely to reverse course throw *Puitn* under the bus and support Ukraine as keep on his current course. He is utterly untrustworthy, from any direction. It is the natural consequence of being a totally transactional person. Since he believes in nothing, since nothing outside himself is of any importance to him, he simply doesn't have any actually loyalties, commitments, or any of the normal  character properties you expect a normal person to have. Putin may think he has a long term ally, for Trump such a term doesn't even have meaning.

I don't Putin regards Trump as an ally so much as he regards him as a supplicant.

[romad1]

Interesting

 

[romad1]

Somber.

 

[Tigerbomb13]

Medvedev threatening to murder Dominik Hasek

https://apnews.com/article/czech-hasek-russia-medvedev-threats-1acc8ff9ca0f473b13932219475d72b4

[romad1]

 

[romad1]

This plus the number of Russian motorcycle gang members in south Florida is sus

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/neo-nazi-group-the-base-leader-russian-spy-allegations

[romad1]

Ukraine is feeling unbound by the United States because of the US support for Putin's positions and is taking the war to the heartland of Russia.

 

[romad1]

More of the same

 

[chasfh]

I wonder how much taxpayer money is being funneled under the table to the Kremlin right now? Presumably for the purpose of annexing Ukraine and eventually the other ex-Respubliks, but maybe for other things, too, who knows.

[gehringer_2]

8 hours ago, romad1 said:

Ukraine is feeling unbound by the United States because of the US support for Putin's positions and is taking the war to the heartland of Russia.

 

law of unintended consequences.