In Reply to: (link) Hey Don the Con. Which side are you on? posted by SagoBob on March 20, 2025 at 12:46:32
I listened to an interesting podcast on Trump/Russia yesterday from a Russian who left during the draft.
He believes Trump gave Putin an out. His narrative was that Ukraine was a proxy for the West, but now that America has been defeated, they can freeze the boundaries in Ukraine.
Previously he said that Ukraine was a threat to Russia. He could not quit without somehow showcasing that they were no longer a threat from the West and Nazis.
That is why Putin is making a show of standing up Trump.
They can also point to their pushing Ukraine out of Kursk after the Zelensky was kicked out of the WH.
Putin does not know how to wage war but he does know how to push PR and negotiate from his KGB training.
Trump took this war out of Putin's skill set weakness to his strength.