“They are goading him on purpose.”
No. He is goading the west.
Baloney. The “West” is deliberately giving Ukraine long range missiles, trying to goad Russia into striking back at the NATO countries supplying the missiles, so they can declare WWIII. Putin is a thug, but so is Zelensky; there are no clean hands here, except Trump’s. They are trying to cause Trump to fail by starting a world war, possibly to prevent him from even taking office. A child can see it.