Putin Describes Trump As 'Pragmatic' And 'Smart', Says Ukraine War Might Have Been Avoided If 2020 US Elections 'Had Not Been Stolen'

Times of India ^ | 1/24/2025 | World Desk

[marcusmaximus]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday described American President Donald Trump as "pragmatic" and "smart," expressing doubt that the US president would lower global oil prices to harm Russia.

Putin noted that extremely high or low oil prices would negatively affect both the Russian and American economies. "He is not only a smart person, but a pragmatic person," Putin told state media. "I have a hard time imagining there will be decisions taken that are detrimental to the American economy," he added.

Putin also said that the 2022 "crisis in Ukraine"—a reference to Moscow's full-scale military offensive—might have been avoided if Trump had been US president at the time. "I cannot but agree with him that if he had been president—if his victory hadn't been stolen in 2020—then maybe there would not have been the crisis in Ukraine that emerged in 2022," Putin told a state TV reporter.

Putin's remarks followed Trump's comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, where he suggested that reducing oil prices could end the conflict in Ukraine. Trump said, "If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately."

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"If we don't make a 'deal,' and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries. Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and the easy way is always better. It's time to 'MAKE A DEAL.' NO MORE LIVES SHOULD BE LOST!!!"

[marcusmaximus]

Jon Preston Flashback: 2021

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3927830/posts?page=23#23

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Sounds like Putin is getting ready to cut a deal.

[butterdezillion]

It’s a chicken-and-egg scenario. The election theft was made possible by Covid, which may well have originated in the Ukraine biolabs and Hunter Biden’s Metabiota. Ukraine has always been a money laundering and bribery operation which has fed the democrat machine at taxpayer expense. Trump’s admonition to Zelensky to clean up their corruption including with the Bidens (which Joe has now pardoned his family AND FAUCI of, with both pardons going back to 2014 when the Gain of Function research was being illegally done by Fauci) resulted in the Deep State hamstringing Trump with impeachment proceedings and a bunch of lawfare. it’s a huge twisted corrupt mess.

And Putin knows it. He has said that the Deep State and its players such as Hillary and Biden have waged war against the whole world. He’s clarified it is not the people of the US, it is not Trump. It is the Deep State. And he’s said that the biolabs in Ukraine were the work of that Deep State.

My hope is that in working out a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, Putin’s demand for an international investigation of those Ukrainian biolabs is met. I suspect that if this was investigated, it would be found that Fauci and the Deep State have been committing crimes against humanity and using those crimes to launder money and force WEF-preferred policies on the whole world.

In my wildest dreams, I hope that it ends up exposing the global elite cabal that seeks to get rid of 90% of the world’s population, with most of the remaining people being slaves to the elites.

IOW, in my wildest dreams it will be the fulfillment of Revelation, where one of Satan’s beasts (corrupt religion) devours the other (corrupt government) and Babylon falls, to the shock of the whole world.

That’s my story and I’m stickin’ with it. lol

[politicianslie]

—if his victory hadn't been stolen in 2020—

That is disinformation and he should be arrested. Or, at least, banned from Facebook.

As anyone can see in the Michigan and Wisconsin VOTES vs TIME that in the early morning hours after the 2020 erection, that President Trump was pulling away until all of a sudden step jumps in Senile old Biden's vote totals changed everything.

The Biden STEP JUMPS in vote total is obviously STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

When you add in Georgia vote counting AFTER VOTE COUNTING WAS SHUT DOWN due to the "pipe break", that is the three states President Trump needed to win the election.

Do you remember that the video of Georgia showed the ballots being counted MULTIPLE TIMES? Probably not, but IF the Justice Dept investigates the massive vote fraud from 2020, you'll probably see it again.

And you shouldn't forget that Pennsylvania counted MANY illegal ballots.

Put it all together and President Trump easily won 2020 if the election fraud by the DimWITS had been investigated. What's important now is to use paper ballots going forward AND voter ID. The DimWITS can't win without massive erection fraud.

[JonPreston]

Gee marcus, Cavuto has been fired by Fox and Putin now acknowledges that 2020 was stolen.

What do the Murdocks/Fox have to say about the 2020 election?

BREAKING: Russian President Putin says the Ukrainian crisis wouldn’t have happened if the 2020 U.S. election hadn’t been stolen from Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/i9MxzHN6vd— The General (@GeneralMCNews) January 24, 2025

[marcusmaximus]

You loved me back in 2021.

[McGruff]

Collusion!

[JonPreston]

You loved me back in 2021

Not quite. You've always been a Clown. And if you think for one moment I'm ever going to forget your Ukranian war/Biden nonsense, you have another think coming.

[PGR88]

By your estimate, how many states “stopped counting” on election night 2020? Were they only “swing states?”

Leftist “fact checkers” especially on Google (which is becoming worse every day) like to say: “no one ‘stopped counting,’ they just had to slow down or rest for a brief period after a long day.”

Which still doesn’t explain how some states, even the largest ones like Texas, were able to report results that same evening - to which the “fact checkers” reply: “well, all states have different procedures....”

[McGruff]

“Moscow's full-scale military offensive”

There's that word again “full-scale”. If it was Kiev would look like Gaza City.

[McGruff]

Didn’t President Trump catch hell for calling Putin smart in his first term?

[Midwesterner53]

When Trump ends this war, he will be at his zenith. Watch Greenland and the Canal fall into his hands shortly afterwards.

[marcusmaximus]

Memories…

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3927157/posts?page=19#19

[sit-rep]

I love it...

[marcusmaximus]

Putin finally acknowledging what we’ve all been saying about The Steal since 2020.

[The_Harlequin]

Gotta hand it to Putin. He knows how to play the game.

[cowboyusa]

these threads will mercifully end, and he will be out of a job.

[JonPreston]

You will never distract me from your Clown behaviors.

[marcusmaximus]

Gotta hand it to Putin President Trump. He knows how to play the game.

[MotorCityBuck]

I really like this Putin guy.👍
He is Master Troll like Trump.