[married21]

Wonder if Trump just sucks up to Putin sometimes because it may irk China.

[AndyJackson]

So is it G7+1=G8 or G6+1=G7

[Lod881019]

Amazed how many people bought the false narrative that it’s 1985 again...then again Vladimir knows this and he knows a Biden presidency pretty much allows him to do whatever he wants overseas

[sam_whiskey]

So you buy into the narrative that he sucks up to Putin? Nice.

[rockinqsranch]

It certainly irks the news media, and the Democrats.

[Zhang Fei]

[Wonder if Trump just sucks up to Putin sometimes because it may irk China.]

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Trump has this world’s greatest salesman conceit. He thinks he can sell ice to Eskimos. Putin’s never gonna be a friend of the US. That’s because the US is the major power in the way of his territorial ambitions. Without Uncle Sam in the way, he could probably reconstitute the old Tsarist empire, some of which fell away with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That includes all of the stans, the Ukraine, Belorussia and the Baltics. Unless we agree to Russia acquiring those lands and perhaps those of the Warsaw Pact, the US and Russia are never gonna be friends. And even then, Russia’s not exactly known for being content with its holdings, in times of strength:

https://www.timemaps.com/history/russia-750ad/

For now, the Chinese and the Russians have a tacit agreement - the Russians will expand in one direction, and the Chinese will expand in another. Unless the US gives the Russians the green light to acquire Europe in its entirety, relations between the two countries are always going to be testy.

[Robert DeLong]

I don't think he sucks up to Putin at all, but rather seeks to make Putin, and thus Russia, more apt to side with the US if China ever decides to move in an attempt to secure dominance. Life is a game of chess.

Just as it was better that Russia finally joined the Allied forces to defeat the Axis forces, then to allow the opposite to occur. The same is still true to this day.

McConnell is the idiot.