Posted on 02/24/2022 5:49:47 PM PST by karpov
On the cusp of Vladimir Putin’s act of naked aggression against the sovereign country of Ukraine, the most important Republican in the country praised the Russian autocrat for his “genius.”
Former President Donald Trump’s comments were another instance of his shockingly favorable and morally bankrupt statements about Vladimir Putin over the years.
Asked in a radio interview what had gone wrong that Putin recognized the independence of two Ukrainian breakaway regions on President Biden’s watch, Trump couldn’t muster one remotely appropriate sentiment.
He immediately cited “the rigged election” of 2020, an obsession of his that is so all-consuming, it makes Ahab look uninterested in the White Whale by comparison.
He characterized the recognition of the regions that Russian separatists claim as “wonderful” and “smart,” never mind that it was a transparently cynical step to create a pretext for war.
He said the so-called peacekeepers Putin had ordered into the regions were “the strongest peace force” and we could use it on our southern border.
He called Putin “a very savvy” guy — which is one way to put it — and bragged of knowing him “very, very well.”
It would have been a shoddy performance from a backbench congressman or a commentator, but Trump is the former leader of the free world. He’s never going to feel constrained by that role the way, say, George H.W. Bush did, but he shouldn’t sound like he could be an anchor on RT, either.
Putin is a brutal killer whose cynicism has been on blatant display the last few weeks. He seeks to reverse the West’s victory in the Cold War and drastically diminish US influence in Europe, toward the ultimate end of tag-teaming with China to end the American-created international order.
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Yadda yadda yadda call someone who cares.
Saying Putin is a genius and savvy is a truth. Saying Biden is a squash brain is also a truth.
Trump knows what he is doing.
Rich Lowry is the lead editor for National Review, and is responsible for turning it into complete garbage
morally bankrupt????
Says pot to kettle.
This proves Lowry is an idiot.
And when Biden called Putin a “worthy adversary” last summer did that upset you too, Rich?
Putin never called me racist for being white
Putin never forced me to get the jab
Putin never caused inflation in my economy
Putin didn’t cram woke garbage into my entertainment
Putin isn’t forcing kids to turn into trannys
Putin never burned down my cities in the name of racial justice
Trump was not praising Putin, he was warning that Putin is smart. Two very different things. Just because someone (Putin in this case) is not a nut job liberal does not mean he is stupid.
Rich Lowry - NeoCon faggot
Do these people not realize that he’s not complimenting the guy? Are they capable of that?
The man points out that Putin has outplayed, the world for the most part.
And as much as the Ivy League Establishment elites in the US and EU want to think he’s a low class, unintelligent rube, he outplays them every time.
I mean, Blinken says that with all this going on, the US is still going to buy oils and gas from Russia. He’s playing this admin like a fiddle.
President Trump is merely pointing out what morons this admin is compromised of.
Is it any different than Patton calling Rommel a “Magnificent Bastard”?
Putin Owns the EU. Trump sees this and says this.
Trump is saying “maybe the EU should try harder and then I’ll praise them”
Putin Owns the EU. Trump sees this and says this.
Trump is saying “maybe the EU should try harder and then I’ll praise them”
As usual, they take President Trump out of context.
“And when Biden called Putin a “worthy adversary” last summer did that upset you too, Rich?”
This.
Because they know enough Sheeple will buy it.
Why do libs screw up everything?
Why are all cities controls by libs human jungles with the natives killing each other in spite of all the laws the libs pass?
This article answers that question for all to see.
Libs think the criminal element is stupid when in fact some of the smartest people in history were criminals.
So the libs are continually behind the curve. And too dumb to know it.
listen stooopid, it’s one chess master, commenting on the move of another master, against a guy that’s playing checkers... please
Trump was thinking in terms of Putin’s effectiveness at strategy, in the ABSENCE of any real Western effectiveness at countering him, after Trump left.
But I don’t think Putin is a ‘genius’. I think he’s a pig and a thug, who appears to have learned a lot from Hitler.
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