Are you a Trump supporter?

[Anomalocaris]

I'm willing to see how this 4 years plays out.

You think we have 4 years. He just threatened Russia with missiles. On Twitter. That isn't a president that's Alf Garnet with a platform.

Putin is KGB. KGB skills in manipulating human intelligence assets puts any American intelligence agency to shame. One of the tricks of managing a foreign official whom you have secretly turned is to allow him to be seen doing something major to hurt your country.   That way the foreign official is seen as patriotic, ssuspicion on him is deflected, and he remains in a position of trust amongst your enemies,  and he remains available for further and more effective use at more decisive moments.

Putin needs trump to stay in power.   Putin, unlike trump, thinks ahead, and subordinates his personal vanity to his final goal.

Putin gets a far stiffer hard on from the disintegration of the western alliance and the collapse of inclusive, collaborative liberal democratic politics in the US than he could ever from being seen having the loofa faced shit gibbon personally sucking his cock.

If in putin’s Estimate, the price of keeping trump in power and continuing to shred American institutions, it’s system of alliance, and the global system which has enriched so much of the world at a pace Russia could not match is to let trump thump his chest and fling a missile or two at Russia, he would absolutely be pleased to pay that price.

Every day trump stays in power is yet another win for Putin and Russia on a scale that the entire inventory of American tomahawk missiles fired into down town Moscow could not begin of offset.