I wasn’t fully convinced before that Putin has Trump in his pocket, but after that stunt, I am convinced that he is under Putin’s thumb. Trump and co. could have had marching orders from Putin to do exactly that. Also, this is something that Putin have done and would do, publicly humiliating someone on live TV.
If you genuinely think Putin is some master manipulator, then I feel really sorry for you.
It’s just Trump being Trump
Someone mentioned letting in pro-Kremlin outlet TASS film the event. Trump just ordered to stop cyber operations against Russia and lift the sanctions.
If that doesn’t scream Putin influence, I don’t know what is.
I mean Putin worked for 16 years in the KGB before going on to dismantle a democracy. He better be a master manipulator.
Eh, I don’t think anyone would’ve called Russia a democracy after the end of the USSR. It was a complete shitshow during the whole 90s
Putin was elected in free and fair elections in 2000 and 2004, so Russia was enough of a democracy to just… elect someone else.
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