“Trump Was In Awe Of Putin” Aussie PM Tells Us We’re Screwed

“The creepiness was palpable,” says a former head of state in describing how Donald Trump behaved in the presence of dictator Vladimir Putin. The influence of Russia in the shadows has always accompanied the current GOP standard bearer since he got into politics in 2015. Trump may call his Russian connections a “hoax” but the fact of the matter is that both of his elder sons, Eric and Junior, went on record about how they get all kinds of funding from Russia and don’t even need to use regular banks anymore.

And that was undoubtedly the case back in the day. Makes you wonder why Trump can’t simply get Vladimir to front him $175M for a bond, but then we don’t know all the ins and outs of that relationship. But Malcolm Turnbull saw them interact and here is his description of their *rapport.*

Dominance hierarchy.https://t.co/s7V6NeE0kV pic.twitter.com/O7IDIuf5Kc

— Philip Auerswald (@auerswald) April 13, 2024

And Vladimir isn’t the only dictator Donald admires, although he is number one.

There is only one candidate on the ballot who repeatedly praised communist dictators, and his name is Donald J. Trump. https://t.co/8aTp0iQhnn pic.twitter.com/bwOwJkCpX6

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 13, 2024

Now what is comical about Jenna Ellis’ comment is that she meant it an entirely different way, i.e., that it is Joe Biden who is the commie. Um…Jenna? Is he the one singing Xi’s praises or is it Trump? That is Trump in the clip, is it not, or is this just another mass hallucination, like the ones we’ve all been having since 2015 when this creep came down the elevator? Meanwhile, Russia has been playing the long game since the 50’s and Vladimir’s waiting for a big pay off when and if his favorite boy returns to power:

Former President Donald Trump‘s reported plan to end Russia’s war on Ukraine is “impossible” to evaluate without more detail and confirmation, the Kremlin has told Newsweek. Moscow and Kyiv are maneuvering for possible diplomatic openings resulting from the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign.

The Washington Post reported this week that Trump is mulling over a peace plan by which Ukraine would cede Crimea and the eastern Donbas region to Russia. Kyiv would also be permanently excluded from NATO.

The former president and his team hope a deal would encourage Russia to reduce its dependence on, and allegiance to, China, the Post reported. Trump campaign spokespeople dismissed the report as “fake news,” per the New York Post.

The Kremlin press office—headed by President Vladimir Putin‘s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov—told Newsweek in a statement on Wednesday that it was aware of the speculation as to Trump’s intentions in Ukraine.

“We have seen reports on this, but so far, no initiatives have been announced by Donald Trump,” Peskov’s office said. “Therefore, it is impossible to make estimates.” […]

Two years later, neither side has signaled a willingness to compromise. Ukraine wants all Russian troops to withdraw from its territory per its internationally recognized 1991 borders, plus Russian reparations and war-crime trials for Russian leaders.

Putin, meanwhile, has demanded Kyiv accept what he called the “new territorial realities” of Russia’s occupation of swaths of Ukraine. The Russian leader has long dismissed the validity of Ukrainian sovereignty and has shown no sign of easing his intention to isolate Kyiv internationally and prevent its decades-long westward drift.

What the American electorate decides to do in November has global implications. Even French President Emmanuel Macron is making contingency plans in case we mess up and the worst comes to the worst. Our allies are nervous and understandably so. NATO is prepared to go on without the United States, should push come to shove. We could indeed be a banana republic come the fall, or as Putin is hoping, a Russian colony.

Trump is all in favor of the latter. He made that clear when his other buddy, Viktor Orban, was visiting him at Mar-a-Lago.

This is who and what we are dealing with. As Zelensky said, “If Ukraine loses this war, other countries will be attacked. This is a fact.” That is indeed a fact. I would put Poland next in line. We have all been here and seen this before.

For his part, Trump didn’t even know that Ukraine was a sovereign state when he was in office before. Did you hear that one?

As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.

“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US national security council between 2017 and 2019, tells David Sanger, a New York Times reporter and author of New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West.

“He really could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state.”

This, Sanger writes, meant Trump’s view of Ukraine was “essentially identical” to that of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president who would order an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a year after Trump left office.

Before triggering the invasion, Putin said in a speech: “Ukraine is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space.”

Last month, in a speech marking 10 years since the annexation of Crimea, Putin declared that parts of occupied Ukraine were part of a “New Russia”.

If that’s how Vladimir sees things, you know his lapdog won’t argue with him. As Sherlock Holmes said, “We are in dark and treacherous waters.”