“Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump says in an excoriating post aimed at the Russian president.
24 hours he said. He could end the war in 24 hours. All he has to do is talk tough and Putin would bow to his flabby pasty white biceps! Anyone who doesn't recognize this as 100% pure bullshit should pull their head out of Trump's fat ass and have their it examined.
Eh, a few days from now Trump will say something like "I had an amazing call with Putin. He is a great guy, Ukraine should surrender now".
Dude can't remember what he said yesterday.
X is great, they're the best, nobody was ever like X, absolutely tremendous.
or
X is gonna do what we want, they have no choice, we'll make things very painful for them if they don't.
or
X has gone absolutely crazy, just awful, the most terrible things that have been done in terms bad things, they must pay!
... dementia riddled mob boss tactics.
The rhetoric is always 110%, but the underlying tactic just flips around like a weather vane in a hurricane... because Trump literally is not capable of long term, strategic thinking.
He's just good at bullying people.
tl:dr; Trump is almost always bullshitting and saving face at the same time, because he doesn't understand or believe in anything other than the appearance of wealth and power.
He is the manifestation of the id of the American ruling class, a ravenous, screaming toddler that only wants MORE, with none of the carefully crafted corpo-chic lingo that makes them seem intelligent and respectable.
This is what Trump does: the wildest takes non-stop, beyond of what anyone considers decent, but if the polls clearly show that he's falling out of favor, he's always ready to make a U-turn, and brag about it.
Fuck this guy. I'm glad he did in this case, but this is no way to run a country. Also, he's still shitting on Zelensky.
Sounds like business went sour. Perhaps Trump thinks he's invulnerable to a polonium doorknob now he's President so he's gonna take some cheap shots because his peace deal didn't go his way
Quite possible, but to date it seems to be two steps forward and one step back. So then we're a few weeks from Trump declaring his support for Ukraine.
I think his unrealistic 24 hour plan was to give putin what he thought he wanted. Eg all the territory he's captured so far and assurances against nato action/withdrawal of some western personnel at nato border country bases. You know putin's public story.
He just didn't know putin's real objective. Maybe now he's getting a bit of an idea. He's too simplistic to fathom that there could have been an ulterior motive.
Your mistake here is assuming that this level of thought is possible by trump. There's no 4d chess here. He's just being played for an idiot cause that's what he is.
I guess Trump is playing 0.4d chess, i.e. chess on a linear board that is 0.4 times as long in its single dimension as a regular chess board (3 tiles), on that kind of board it does look like winning is easy obviously.