Posted on 02/24/2022 12:19:51 PM PST by devane617
Former President Donald Trump and many leading conservative figures have been praising Russian President Vladimir Putin as he threatens Ukraine with war. Meanwhile, many are also bashing President Joe Biden's attempts to deter Putin from an attack while trying to minimize the possibility of any direct combat between the nuclear superpowers.
While it's not unusual for former presidents to disagree with their successors on policy, it is unorthodox for them to shower a US adversary like Putin with flattery — particularly given the Russian leader is poised to launch a major military offensive on a US ally.
But this hasn't stopped Trump and some of his close allies from expressing admiration for Putin, including over the Russian president's misleading justifications to use force against Ukraine. The common thread in the Republican complaints seem to be attempts to blame the crisis Putin has stoked on Biden.
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Do these people actually write such bovine excrement with a straight face?
Yet you put it here for all of us to read...
Seriously, though, it's the "Trump called White Supremacists 'fine people'" all over again.
Trump wasn't speaking approvingly of Putin's actions, just on how easily Putin outsmarted Brandon.
Putin may not be a nice guy.
But he’s smarter than Xiden by far. I said it. So sue me.
The executives at Yahoo need to be charged and fined for every penny of such illegal political contributions-in-kind.
Yahoo has always been garbage.
These talking points were already written and then sent out - this is what they planned for the narrative to be about vs. Biden’s disastrous policies which enabled these events.
In this case it is a democrat that Russia paid millions.
Saying that Putin pulled a “genius” maneuver declaring the independence of the provinces was simply stating an obvious fact.
The libtards can’t stand it.
Putin is halfway through a 3-d chess game while Biden’s trying to find his checkerboard.
The only Americans I see supporting Putin are the ones married to mail order whores from Russia.
I agree with all the Liberals on Trump and Putin. The way you can get back at Trump and the Right is to get yourself to Poland or Belarus, pickup a gun and take on the Russians. You can show Trump how much you hate him by trying to act out your self hate and rage on a few Ruskies.
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Just?
It has never been anything but full msnbc. It is a rag of no consequence at all except for propaganda to the cyberkiddies. No serious person reads yahoo news.
Lol sure they do.
Yep.
Soldiers of Misfortune.
The media to those against socialism:
Racist-—check
Nazi-—check
Bigot-—check
Killing grandma’——check
Cheering on Putin-—check
Rinse....repeat
“To admit an adversary is smart and even smart enough to outsmart your own stupid leaders is not “praise”.”
Trump also said ““I knew that he always wanted Ukraine. I used to talk to him about it. I said, ‘You can’t do it. You’re not gonna do it.’ But I could see that he wanted it,” Trump said.”
Here is a simple exercise to understand what Trump said (that Putin made a “smart” move).
Putin’s move into Ukraine was dumb because ___________. Fill in the blank.
Putin is pulling off genius moves, he’s gotten NATO countries dependent on his oil and natural gas, drop their defense spending to nothing to the point they can’t really oppose him
That’s genius to get your enemies to neuter themselves without firing a shot and enrich you at the same time
Focus-grouped talking point alert.
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