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Trump — the new sheriff in town — has a vulnerable Russia panicking
NY Post ^ | 1/24/2025 | Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet

Posted on 01/25/2025 3:22:46 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Moscow is in a tizzy: The denizens of the Russian capital did not see this version of President Trump coming for Mad Vlad.

Prior to Trump’s inauguration, Russia’s gilded oligarchs and apparatchiki were confident the 47th president of the United States was going to serve Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin on a silver platter.

That was then.

This is now — and the man from Mar-a-Lago has Moscow panicking.

Instead of giving Putin the golden keys to the Ukrainian kingdom, Trump issued an ultimatum to the Kremlin: Cut a deal to end the war or, as he posted Wednesday on Truth Social, “It is only going to get worse [for Russia].”

Putin’s state-sanctioned talking heads were at a loss.

“[Trump] can’t talk to Russia this way,” Andrey Gurulyov, a member of the Russian Duma and a regular guest on Russia-1, whimpered hours later to host Vladimir Solovyov on Russia’s most popular TV talk show.

“It’s just so rude!” Gurulyov whinged. “How is [Trump] talking to us? Who does he think he is talking to?”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: jonathansweet; marktoth; newtrollformarcus; putin; spamusmaximus; trump
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1 posted on 01/25/2025 3:22:46 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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2 posted on 01/25/2025 3:25:01 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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It may be a good time to grant Edward Snowden a full presidential pardon, bring him home, and let him be a senior advisor to John Ratcliffe.


3 posted on 01/25/2025 3:30:29 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Tell your Putin to get on the Trump Train.


4 posted on 01/25/2025 3:30:37 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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Tell your Putin to get on the Trump Train.

We noticed you were missing from the Trump Train on November 5th. And your posts were definitely depressing on November 6th, like you just returned from Zelensky's funeral.

5 posted on 01/25/2025 3:33:32 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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How about we tell YOU to STOP THE #### owing your allegience to another ocuntry before the US because I NEVER EVER see you post anything BUT Ukraine...

As if you DONT GIVE A #### what happens here.

And it is truly repulsive.

I’ve learned as I’ve agedd to not hold things in :)

Ciao and have a good one!


6 posted on 01/25/2025 3:34:24 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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HEY I feel better now :)

See my post number 6.

I thought maybe I was too harsh but now I know I wasn’t and it wasn’t in my head!


7 posted on 01/25/2025 3:35:11 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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Tell your Putin to get on the Trump Train.

The Trump Train just ran over your little green pedomidget.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4292470/posts REAKING: Officials Shocked After Trump State Department Halts Funding For Military Aid to Ukraine

8 posted on 01/25/2025 3:36:50 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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I’ll say it again. Tell your Putin to get on the Trump Train.


9 posted on 01/25/2025 3:37:39 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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Tell your Putin to get with the program and hold a call with President Trump.


10 posted on 01/25/2025 3:45:30 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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I’ll say it again. Tell your Putin to get on the Trump Train.

Tell your Vindman he's not helping Ukraine, nor his brother.


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11 posted on 01/25/2025 3:52:04 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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This is the New York Post, which has been pro Trump for a decade. To much greater effect than all of FR.

Where do you get off?


12 posted on 01/25/2025 4:08:09 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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What are all these Russian and Ukrainian trolls going to do when the war is over?


13 posted on 01/25/2025 4:08:10 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Secretary Hegseth is going to eat Belousov’s lunch.


14 posted on 01/25/2025 4:08:34 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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Secretary Hegseth is going to eat Belousov’s lunch.

Don't give us that BS. You either love Ukraine and the Vindman brothers more than anything else (including your own country) or you're paid to love them. That's why you tell us to pray to Kiev five times a day.

15 posted on 01/25/2025 4:24:20 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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This is most amusing. From the article: "... whimpered hours later to host Vladimir Solovyov on Russia's most popular TV talk show."

Playing the old word substitution game, how seriously would one treat "... whimpered hours later to host Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg on America's most popular TV talk show."

As this is 1) not a report of official dialogue between the Trump administration and the Putin administration, and 2) written in English by this English-language press, one is assured that none of this kind of news is intended for Russians, Ukrainians, and most in Europe. It is intended for us in these United States.

The article states "It could come via trilateral negotiations, or by delivering a decisive one-two punch to bloody Putin both militarily and economically."

Foretelling the future with model verbs is fascinating. I'll wait to learn what happens WHEN it happens. Not with an "if" and a "could."

President Trump had and still has our vote. In our house, we don't vote with anybody's "most popular TV talk show."

16 posted on 01/25/2025 4:47:31 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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This is probably all theater. Trump will ultimately broker a deal favorable to Russia. Russia will get what it wants in territory and Trump will be able to say he forced Russia to end the war. That’s how the game is played.


17 posted on 01/25/2025 4:50:28 AM PST by circlecity
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“new Sheriff in town”.

Well, except the new Sheriff has no say over Russia. Maybe the new Sheriff should fix the US borders, pay the US debt, stop the US from blowing our the pipelines of other countries, stop the US State Department from conducting covert “color revolutions” all around the world, stop the US from developing deadly bioweapons and fake COVID vaccines that kill hundreds of millions.

Putin has his country and Trump has his. They should each focus on on doing their own jobs and now pretending to be the Boss of the other.


18 posted on 01/25/2025 4:51:56 AM PST by Kentfromohio
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As autocrats are inclined to do, Putin surrounded himself with yes men projecting with confidence that Trump would cut an easy deal for Russia. Now the illusions spun for Putin's benefit are collapsing.

In the contest between KGB gangster and New York billionaire developer who won the American presidency back after defeat, the Bolshevik killer and thief is outclassed and does not stand a chance. Putin knows how to steal and murder, but Trump knows how to divert the flows of money so as to starve out Russia economically. Trump is also willing to permit missiles from Ukraine to definitively wreck Russia's military power if it comes to that.

This is going to be fun to watch, as the neo-Soviet empire of Putin's fantasy dies from inexorable economic pressure and military defeat, just as the original Soviet Union did. Putin thinks that control of Ukraine is at stake in the Ukraine war. As Russia's elite is beginning to realize, the true stakes are Putin's continuance in power and Russia's survival in her current form.

19 posted on 01/25/2025 5:19:13 AM PST by Rockingham
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Have Putin’s Houthis tried to attack any American ships in the Red Sea since President Trump’s inauguration?


20 posted on 01/25/2025 5:22:49 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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