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by netsharc 415 days ago
That feels overly deferrential to Putin...

It's like a person with muscles witnessing a beating and then when the perpretaror notices, looking away and saying "I didn't see anything!".

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Or worse, rifling through the victim's pockets (mineral deal) and demanding a thank you.

So far John McCain had this one right. Show Putin weakness at your peril. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLAzeHnNgR8

The mineral deal smells like a sharing the spoils of war with Putin, I wonder if Putin mentioned it on that phone call they had.

Thinking of a Moscow-Washington phone call makes me think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6&v=6T2uBeiNXAo

> Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello? Of course I like to speak to you. Of course I like to say hello.

Oh SNL, please make a spoof of this...

Yeah, Chamberlain-level deferential.
So, cowardice?
He'll do anything to keep his kompromat from being disclosed.
There's no kompromat, Trump and Putin just have the same goals. This whole idea that Putin has kompromat on Trump and that's the only reason he would be deferential to Putin rests on the idea that the American president is aligned morally, politically, and strategically with the long-term interests of America. Sadly, this is not true. The oath Trump took was empty.

Trump does not have a pro-America agenda; he has a pro-Trump agenda. His whims are not morally, politically, or strategically aligned with the goals and prospects of the American people, they're aligned with a global billionaire class, to which Putin belongs. That is why they get along. They are allies.

This is what I have said for a long time. Trump the individual cares about Trump, he operates like an animal. He may not overtly hate the country, but he has no feeling of obligation or patriotism. I don't think he knows what patriotism is.

If something he does helps America, it is because it helps him, or because it inflates his ego via people applauding him.