When Putin started his invasion, Trump praised him for being smart, then praised him again, suggesting he'd captured a whole country for a small cost in sanctions.
What do you think you're expressing when you say that Trump isn't a Putin puppet? That he's not made of wood?
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-s...
And what about Joe Biden's proud public boast that he threatened to withhold aid if a Ukrainian prosecutor wasn't fired ? (who was investigating Burisma - the company whose board Hunter biden was on.)
https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-joe-biden-forced-ukraine-t...
Anyways, it's pretty clear that there are different standards for different people for news that gets published/censored/suppressed and most importantly amplified.
As Elon Musk said just today: "All news sources are partially propaganda, some more than others" - when he was told by governments (not Ukraine) that Starlink should block Russian news.
"“I don’t want to interfere in U.S. elections,”"
I don't find that decisive on the facts given everything else.
Stormy Daniels denied sleeping with Trump, because someone threatened the life of her child. It was and is still a true thing that happened.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/25/trum...
You can prove anyone “wrong” by playing with definitions or getting super technical about things.
https://news.yahoo.com/john-bolton-putin-waiting-possible-13...
Taken from someone else:
Trump had the US military abandon their bases in Syria and Russia promptly captured them.
Russia was caught paying bounties in Afghanistan for killing American soldiers. Trump did nothing.
After Putin seized Crimea, Obama put sanctions on Russia. Trump promptly got rid of those sanctions for his buddy, then declared that Crimea belonged to Russia, recognizing the legitimacy of their invasion.
Russia keeps creeping advancing the border with Georgia. They just literally move fences and markers at night and take land a few hundred meters at a time.
This happened during Trump's administration. Trump did nothing.
Belarus, which is a puppet for Putin, as he wants Ukraine to be, is run by his puppet dictator Lukashenko. Lukashenko won a clearly rigged election in 2020, leading to mass protests. A similar situation happened in Ukraine during Obama's administration, and we backed the protests and they ousted Yanukovych, and Ukraine was able to elect a free government that wasn't Putin's puppet. So when a similar situation arises while Trump was President, guess what he did?
The Trump Administration has gone AWOL on Belarus.
Guess who ran Putin's puppet, Yanukovych's campaign in Ukraine? Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Then they became Trump's campaign manager and deputy campaign manager.
Putin invades Ukraine, Trump calls him a genius.
He's a Putin puppet. Putin had a puppet President of the US. It's fucking insane that this happened. But it did. Wake the fuck up.
"We don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia." -Eric Trump, 2014
I repeat: I think Ukraine, and the world, could do well with some mean tweets and mean phone calls in place of what we have now!
The obvious gulf between how Trump was useful to Putin and how his actual puppets are useful to Putin is all people not disposed to agree with you can see. It doesn't matter that your tangible points are correct if people immediately discard it over your emotional appeal.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bolton-putin-waiting-for-tru...
