Posted on 07/04/2024 1:47:49 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had seen fragments of the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump but that his preference for Biden as the next US president remained unchanged.
Asked by a state television reporter if Biden or Trump was better if his publicly stated preference for Biden had changed after the debate, and if he had seen it, Putin said "Nothing has changed".
"Did we not know what could come? We knew," Putin added.
Putin has several times said that he feels Biden is preferable as the future U.S. president to Trump, even after Biden cast the Kremlin chief as a "crazy SOB".
Putin said that he had seen parts of the debate between Biden and Trump but he had other things to attend to.
"I saw some fragments," Putin said. "But I have enough to do".
Biden, 81, put in a stumbling performance during the debate, which brought questions about his age and mental fitness to the forefront of the campaign.
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I think you mean NATO’s botched 30 year eastward expansion....which Putin has correctly..and much belatedly... responded to.
Kudos to Vlad for his patience with the evil US/UK monarchist alliance. He’s the adult in the room. The Founders never wanted the US to be “leader of the free world”, nor did they ever want an alliance with the UK.
Go cuddle your Donald Rumsfeld teddy bear!
Well, duh. He prefers a demented fool as an adversary to a real leader who didn’t hesitate to drone terrorists.
Putin is a tool.
Headlines!
Oil hit $140//bl in 2013 and Vlad invaded Crimea in 2014.
Oil was up 75% under Biden in 2021, he invades Ukraine in 2022.
oil hit $100/bbl in 2007, he invaded Georgia in 2008.
It’s NATO encroachment to blame!
Trump has Bad Vlad’s number. Trump has delt with shitheads all his life. Same as he knew how to press Lil Kim’s buttons.
Duuuuuh, of course he’d rather go up against Puddin’ Head.
We're all going to remember that if he gets back in office and ends their war quickly, which I have no doubt he'll do.
Don't whine if the deal he cuts is one you don't like.
Thanks Zhang Fei.
Russian oil production is about 9.5 mbpd, but your essential points are correct.
Russia sinks or swims on the price of oil.
“What Trump will do on Ukraine only he knows”
During his Administration, he also lifted the Obama/Biden ban on lethal aid to Ukraine, and started arming them with Javelin anti-tank missiles, among others.
Trump is not on Putin’s side.
Biden is a gift to Putin.
“NATO’s botched 30 year eastward expansion”
NATO actually succeeded in expanding Eastward in the last thirty years - 16 more members.
The credit for that really has to go to Russia however. Without Russia’s aggressive history and threatening behavior, few if any would have gone to all the trouble and expense to join NATO.
Biden gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine in a “minor incursion” and Putin’s crappy army screwed up the entire deal.
“Don’t whine if the deal he (Trump) cuts (with Putin or his successor) is one you don’t like.”
That goes for you too Kazan. Russia has big bills to pay, for what Putin has done.
I think Vlad is playing a little reverse psychology here.
Not really. Foreign nations prefer it when we have weak leaders, especially hostile nations.
“Putin said that he had seen parts of the debate between Biden and Trump but he had other things to attend to.“
He laughs at us and the president and he wants us to know it.
They also prefer it when we have useful idiot who believe anything their criminal government tells them.
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