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 Thursday at 07:10 PM 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