OP:
If Donald Trump had been re-elected by the EC in 2020, would Putin have 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's border now?
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Originally Posted by erieguy
Sleepy Joe is weak and everyone knows it. The “Russkies” will do anything they want because they know he’ll do nothing about it.
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Actually, Putin was encouraged by our disgraced former president, Donald Trump, not by President Joe Biden. Just look at the facts. Trump has been sympathetic to Putin in public statements for nearly a decade. As for Ukraine, Trump was so reckless regarding its security that he conditioned U.S. military aid on political favors in his shocking 2019 phone call that resulted in his first impeachment.
Trump’s supporters seem ready to forgive him anything, including his cheerleading for dictators. Not so much the rest of America.
If Putin does invade Ukraine, one consequence should be absolute destruction of any Trump political future, IMO. Here is just an incomplete list of his reprehensible backing & embarrassing fawning and anti-democracy admiration toward Putin:
*In March 2014, he tweeted: “I believe Putin will continue to re-build the Russian Empire, and that is not a bad thing.”
*In August 2015, he told Fox News: “Frankly, I’d get along great with him.”
*In April 2016, he enthused: “We’re going to have a great relationship with Putin and Russia.”
*Trump encouraged Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (“Russia, if you’re listening …”)
*Even after the U.S. intelligence community presented him with hard intelligence about Russia’s sabotage in January 2017, Trump publicly minimized it.
*At the Helsinki summit in 2018, Trump actually took Putin’s side on the election-meddling issue — over that of his intelligence advisers. (“I have President Putin; he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.”) Daniel Coats, then director of national intelligence, rebuffed Trump.
*Trump’s response to Putin’s defiance of norms has been to normalize Russian behavior, and it has caught on with his followers, defenders and boosters. When Bill O’Reilly called Putin a killer during a February 2017 interview, Trump responded, “There are a lot of killers. … Do you think our country is so innocent?”
Trump took Russia's side and mocked the USA more than once. Trump did Putin’s work of destabilization for him. Russia for decades has dreamed of increasing polarization in the United States and weakening our democracy. That turned out to be Trump’s approach to governing — to the point of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. Now, as Putin is thinking about a move into Ukraine, he sees an America terribly weakened by political division bordering on dysfunction. He sees a moment of opportunity...thanks to the know-nothing, wannabe autocrat named Donald Trump.
You Trump supporters blame Biden for making Putin think he can get away with recklessness and defiance and his Ukraine threats. You are wrong. American loving citizens and the world comprehend the facts.
And, in this Ukraine crisis, Biden has mobilized a coalition to punish Putin with severe economic sanctions if he crosses the line, while also looking for a diplomatic solution. Joe Biden has behaved with the right mix of firmness and diplomacy. Watch and learn as a real president solves yet another crisis caused by the former guy's ineptness, self absorption and authoritarian disposition.
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