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What makes you think he was a fan of Putin?

• rocketbop 4y ago
  The myriad times Trump publicly praised or expressed his admiration for Putin, presumably.
  • saiya-jin 4y ago
    On top of praising invasion of Ukraine in first days, as brilliant strategic move by brilliant leader (what else, everything he likes is brilliant). Man, I SO much wish for him to be a competent good moral leader, since is slowly inching towards next presidency. As European I don't care if he is republican or democrat at all. Just from that position of extreme power don't make the world a worse place long term for everybody apart form Americans. We all share this tiny planet, what goes around comes around eventually. But there are very few proofs of that, even completely ignoring his twitter brainfarts (which is relatively easy since I dont do twitter, but it leaked into all other news). No reason to expect he will be anyhow different from last time, only more senile/petty. And he was very petty and childish last time. If I had an acquaintance like him around me, I would detest and avoid him simply due to him being a proper a-hole. But its entirely possible that he was good at realpolitik (ie repeatedly praising MBS and Putin since they held a lot of power, yet criticizing chinese as clear competition to US). Its just not very visible outside qanon and similar nutcase ultra right movements which filter media very selectively.
• clucas 4y ago
  Can't speak for the other commenter, but isn't it obvious? Trump has been praising Putin for years. Here's a recent example: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-smart/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-... And the stuff he praises isn't just fluff, Trump tends to praise the most illiberal and autocratic parts of Putin's behavior.