The puny crypto-czar has ruined his country and caused the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians... for NOTHING!
Trump will call Canadian PM Carney the worst leader in the world but will never ever acknowledge that Putin is infinitely worse.
Among his many flaws, I see this one as Trump's worst.
needs to keep Trump 'in line'...Just Follow the Money...
Link: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/following-the-money/
You’re just like a liberal crybaby, crying for something not true but making you feel good.
Perhaps he has spent the last twenty years talking incessantly about how much he admires the guy...because he admires the guy.
Putin is everything that Trump wants to be.
Having a good relationship with somebody doesn’t mean admiring somebody. Being a friend of somebody doesn’t mean admiring somebody.
Furthermore personal admiration on somebody is not same as endorsement of policies and decisions made by that person. These are all common sense.
About 2 months ago when asked Trump named 2 current great world class leaders he thinks, one is Xi, another is Modi. No Putin. I always have evidences in my post. Please give your evidences.
Trump’s ego is as big as Obama. Both have no current world leaders to admire.
Ironically both shared same view on Ukraine: it’s not our core interest. It’s Russia’s core interest. Let them deal with it. That’s why Obama refused to get involved with Minsk agreement. It’s not our business.
Every English speaker would recognize admiration in those quotations.
attacks are improper, But you called these attacks admiration of Putin. That's pathetic.
"In a March 13, 2014, interview on NBC’s “Today” show, Trump said that “Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time.”
“I believe Putin will continue to re-build the Russian Empire,” Trump said in a social media post on March 21, 2014. “He has zero respect for Obama or the U.S.!”
“Putin has become a big hero in Russia with an all time high popularity. Obama, on the other hand, has fallen to his lowest ever numbers. SAD.”
In an April 17, 2014, social media post, Trump wrote, “America is at a great disadvantage. Putin is ex-KGB, Obama is a community organizer. Unfair.”"
If so, does that mean you admire them?
Because, you know, occam's razor.
Dunno. Maybe I'm giving Trump too much credit here.
But, (and I haven't done any research on this), Trump does seem to praise despots he needs something from (and whom he is not willing to bomb, unlike Iran), and he criticizes democratically elected leaders he needs something from. He seems to have decided those are the best ways to manipulate those types of leaders to do what he wants for the benefit of the U.S. Me?...I would be more private in my negotiations, but I'm not Trump.
Remember Biden insulting the Saudi royal family, then flying to Saudi Arabia to unsuccessfully beg that same family for economic oil concessions? Might have turned out better for the United States if Biden had been willing to withstand pressure from the Left, and treat the Saudi royal family better. His criticism helped him domestically, and it would have been harmless, except for the fact that the U.S. needed something from them. But Biden had already burned that bridge for domestic political power gains.
