Putin's Mesmeric Sway on Trump

15 pointsposted 4 months ago
by zerosizedweasle
(ft.com)

14 Comments

nikolay

4 months ago

It's obvious that Russia is winning the war in Ukraine - Trump has his military advisers and intelligence, too. It's not that Putin is hypnotizing him to do crazy things! The internal criticism of Putin in Russia is not that he started the war but that he waited so long, that now he's not taking it seriously, and that he's not aggressive enough. There's no one in Russia who's more West-friendly than Putin. People who want him gone don't even realize that he would be replaced by somebody much worse!

And Zelensky is super annoying and has really bad advisors - the entire world is tired of him and his constant begging and rhetoric, and subconsciously people want Putin to smash him like a cockroach so that he just shuts up at last! People have their own problems - Ukraine is last on their mind! Everybody realizes they need to give up territories or this will keep going on until Russia captures most of Ukraine!

Biden started the war, but the Brits want it to continue. And what's worse is that Germany is militarizing and using this as an excuse - nothing good will come out of that! Well, Japan, too - you don't even have to wonder how the sore losers of two world wars want some revenge - Merz is not even hiding it!

p2detar

4 months ago

> the entire world is tired of him and his constant begging and rhetoric

It's like hearing my mom who constantly quotes crap from Facebook. Please get serious and never forget that children and women are dying from Russian bombs and drones every single day. Your comment is a total copy of the Russian propaganda that batters my home country and it is so sad to read this here as well.

nikolay

4 months ago

Women, children, and elderly people were dying from Ukrainian shelling well before the war started and this is according to Western media, not Russian propaganda!

pestatije

4 months ago

1k / day...with this leader we dont need enemies

nikolay

4 months ago

And where do you get these numbers from?

twixfel

4 months ago

The frontline has barely shifted in 3 years, meanwhile Russia has taken a million casualties. Russia has already lost the war.

Also you shouldn't write with so many exclamation marks, besides the already unhinged content of your post, your choice of punctuation makes you look doubly so.

nikolay

4 months ago

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twixfel

4 months ago

Ok since i can already tell that you’re going to argue all numbers are western propaganda, let’s do something you can at least not argue with: the frontline has barely moved in three years. At this rate it will take decades for Russia to conquer Ukraine.

Well done for using fewer exclamation marks. Stil not able to avoid using them entirely though. They’re considered terrible style you know that right?

nikolay

4 months ago

How do you move the frontline when Ukraine was prepping up for this since 2014 - miles of reinforced trenches, open flat lands - this is not US in Iraq! And Ukraine amasses tens of thousands of soldiers. All this is moving slowly because Russia doesn't want casualties on its side that it's doing this very carefully. This is turned into a war of attrition and Russia is draining the whole West and it's well planned since their initial mistakes. Well, initially they wanted just a coup d'etat and stop the anti-Russia rhetoric and the talks about NATO and nukes, but they underestimated 8+ years of propaganda and brainwashing. But then it turned into a drain for the West, and it's been working. Worst of all for the US and the West, Russia, China, and North Korea are now united - before the war China was not so close to Russia, but now it is. Is this what the West really wanted? I highly doubt it as it's not beneficial to it!

twixfel

3 months ago

All that may be true, but the frontline hasn't shifted. That's the crux, so Russia aren't winning, whereas Ukraine just has to survive to win. Extrapolate the rate of progress and it's decades not years until Russia conquers the rest of Ukraine, assuming nothing happens in the meantime. Which it will.

FrankWilhoit

4 months ago

If the Soviet Union had survived, Putin would be sitting at a desk in Pinsk compiling statistical summaries of telephone taps. Trump has led such a sheltered life that he cannot even spot that type.

fart-fart-FART

4 months ago

>He could be forced to shift to conscription for the frontline, which would jeopardise support for his regime.

blyat, хахахаха.

of all the bullshit I read about Russia these days, the persistent insistence that the regime has any support at all at this point is by far the most infuriating one. the best it can get is tepid "the devil you know" from the 40+ crowd who had lived through the 90's and are justifiably terrified of another violent collapse.

nikolay

4 months ago

Well, it's FT representing the bloodthirsty colonialists on the Island!