In 2016 this would be a shock piece. In 2024 it's thursday.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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Sounds to me he just had his performance review with his boss.
It appears that not a single one of the top level comments has read the article. Amazing how little critical thought goes on, and how quick people are to jump to conclusions.
Hmm. I read it and I agree with the commenters.
Putin is playing the propaganda piece. He met with Trump and “endorses” Biden as a politician which will anger people in America on the right to want to vote. He claims Trump is unpredictable while Biden is predictable which is also his way of saying, “oh yeah, Trump would be a worse choice for me. Please don’t vote for him. Vote for the guy who I can ‘work with’ better.”
I absolutely agree with your analysis, but most of the top level posters were responding as if this were some kind of leak and he was caught giving election information to Putin, rather than just a Putin propaganda piece.
Fair enough!
Most likely. Getting Trump back into White House would be a big and comparably cheap win for Putler with so many problems.
I'm fully convinced he was betting on Trump getting reelected and Europe turning a blind eye towards Ukraine like in 2013 when starting his genocidal war.
I read some news articles a bit ago that Putin had planned the invasion for 2020 while Trump was still in the white House but it got delayed because of COVID.
You know, there is at least one GOP ex-President alive. You'd think that Trump would be talking to an American instead of a former KGB operative.
Trump, I have a feeling, would sell every government secret, citizens personal data and his own asshole to be in power for another year, just to abuse power a bit more to get out of those court cases.
Hell he’d do it for no other reason than to show off and get praised
You don’t say! What were the odds
Yeah no shit, he also sucked his dick and probably rimmed his asshole.
More like "Trump reported back to his financial master"
He's such a shit stirrer, the first guy to start chanting "fight fight fight" when ever two people start arguing in public.
He did a piss poor job of being a leader. Imagine you are 20 years in your dictatorship and the country is in the condition russia is right now. He could have done sooo much more. He could have been a beacon of light. But he chooses to be a pile of shit. So when ever he seems others struggling, he will add oil to the fire to make them more miserable. He can not stand how every other country around him progressed and grew and was successful, but he was not able to because of his bad leadership. He will drag down everyone around him, so nobody can see how low he is. It is a distraction at this point. If he can not be a successful and loved leader, nobody should. The russian way to deal with complexes. And Trump is the same. They love destroying things if they can not get praise for their low efforts.
So when ever he seems others struggling, he will add oil to the fire to make them more miserable. He can not stand how every other country around him progressed and grew and was successful, but he was not able to because of his bad leadership. He will drag down everyone around him, so nobody can see how low he is. It is a distraction at this point. If he can not be a successful and loved leader, nobody should. The russian way to deal with complexes. And Trump is the same. They love destroying things if they can not get praise for their low efforts.
Sadly, that counts for a lot of Russians as well. I've grown up with Russians, that got out in the very early 90s. They where probably the most lovable people I knew. Extremely friendly, very open and fair.
Nowadays, most Russians that come out of Russia are not that. They do exactly what you describe. To everything and everyone.
It's the danger of leaders like this clinging to power. Their very existence makes more people cynical and resigned to their leadership, the only reality they know.
Trump is doing it to the US too. Both the left and the right have become more cynical, because the fact that Trump even exists and succeeds requires lowering our standards, and makes us less hopeful about the very reality we live in.
I mean, is there an example of a benevolent dictatorship?
Not that I can think of… it’s theoretically possible but dictatorships tend to have a highly centralized governance structure, and so the incentive is to distribute wealth and power to the smallest group of people possible. This makes it easier to retain power but generally leaves the interests of ordinary people ignored.
Kind of like when Katie Britt complained about crime in Alabama. Which party has controlled Alabama politics for decades now, Katie?
I don't disagree with you but the same could be said about Chicago
It's Joebama, duh.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Vladimir Putin has said that Donald Trump scolded him for "sympathizing" with Joe Biden when he was president.
In an interview with the RIA state news agency and Rossiya-1 state television channel, Putin said: "In the last year of his work as president, Mr Trump, today's presidential candidate, reproached me for sympathizing with Biden....
"And then, to my surprise, they began to persecute him (Trump) because we allegedly supported him as a candidate.
Putin added that Russia does not interfere in any elections and will work with any American president.
However, Putin said in February that he would rather Biden win the presidency over Trump.
Speaking to Russian television, he said that Biden's leadership would be better for Russia because he is a "more experienced person, he is predictable, he is a politician of the old formation."
The original article contains 202 words, the summary contains 137 words. Saved 32%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
I detect two verifiable lies, and two more likely falsehoods.
I hope Putin remembers the time Biden told him to his face "I don't think you have a soul." I hope he thinks about it often.