As I’ve said from the beginning, just ask yourself: what would Putin want?

Every baffling, self destructive move Trump makes, basically always aligns to a long stated goal of Russia.

fidotron 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Putin wanted Trump to decapitate the Iranian regime?

Let's be serious, that has nothing to do with the Canadian situation, which has more than enough going on without needing to imagine things.

Edit to add: the extent to which many of you will apparently blame anything and everything on Putin is extraordinary. Just because the sun shines on Putin as well does not mean he made it do so.

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nostrademons 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Biden gets Russia and Ukraine stuck in a quagmire in Ukraine, so Putin retaliates by getting the U.S. and Iran stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East. Wars are won by the countries that stay out of them. The Russia-Afghanistan war played a very significant role in the downfall of the Soviet Union.

The irony is that China is the big winner from all of this, simply by staying above the fray and making trade deals with all the countries that more bellicose superpowers start fighting. When your adversary is making a mistake, let him.

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timcobb 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Putin got stuck in Ukraine, not sure what Biden did

	▲	nostrademons a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		His strategy was to give Ukraine just enough weapons to prevent annihilation without giving them so many weapons that would allow them to win. Hence, quagmire. The weapon sales also came with conditions like not allowing them to strike deep within Russia itself, all of which prolongs the war without leading to a clear victor.

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kabes 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But it has turned out positive for Russia. Not enough patriot rockets for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia lifted and higher oil prices.

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luke5441 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Clearly Putin is playing 4D chess /s. Having all the main export infrastructure blown up by Ukraine is also part of the plan.

	▲	kabes 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Please read the discussion before you comment. Infrastructure damage is because of Ukraine's actions, not because of trump. We were discussing trump's actions benefiting Russia. Not saying it's on purpose, probably incompetence.

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Supermancho 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Putin wanted Trump to decapitate the Iranian regime?

This is impractical. There is a hierarchy of thousands of Mullahs that ascend when you kill off one. There is no "head". It's a distributed hierarchy or hydra, rather than an effective dictatorship. ofc, Trump wanted to appease Bibi and Trump fired most of the advisors who object to his bad ideas, so it was a perfect storm for a global quagmire.

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watwut an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Iran war is good for Russia. Regime "decapitation" does not harm Russia, oil going up is good for then. America being weakened and stuck there is good for then too.

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steveBK123 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We have fewer weapons to sell to Ukraine since we have expended a huge amount and are pulling a carrier out of Asia due to the debacle. I'm pretty sure Putin/Xi are happy to see us enter yet another Middle East quagmire.

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whatisthiseven 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Putin wanted the US military presence in the middle east to be severely crippled, which it is now.

He would also want the munitions stockpile to be depleted, which it is now.

Though I do agree, not literally every move Trump does is on a string from Putin and the Iran war isn't one; it sure still is mighty convenient all the same to make the US military look weak and incompetent.

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maratc 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm confused. Is he a Putin's puppet or Netanyahu's? He can't be both: these two don't align.

	▲	sigspec 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		With each other maybe? In practice they are very aligned.

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ETH_start 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Would Putin want Germany to cancel the shut down of its nuclear power plants as Trump urged it to. [1]

The Green Movement in Europe, which Trump opposes, was best thing to happen to Putin.

As far as I can see, where Trump goes wrong is the same place the social democrats go wrong: believing in economic fallacies. In Trump's case that would be the belief that tariffs are beneficial.

He also on rare occasion aligns with very socialist leaning politicians like Elizabeth Warren, like when he sought to prevent private equity from buying up housing — which totally misdiagnoses the cause of the housing shortage. But it's these economic fallacies that makes Trump popular for the same reason social democrats are popular. The vast majority of people don't understand economics.

[1] https://youtu.be/eKEycjREgPE

	▲	WarmWash 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The most ironic thing is that Chernobyl basically solidified that Europe would be dependent on Russia for the next 30 years.