Trump isn’t being fooled by Putin. He doesn’t trust him or believe him. It’s worse. He agrees with him. Trump wants what Putin wants, envies what Putin has, and is imitating Putin’s transformation of Russia into a dictatorship.
Any help the Trump admin provides Ukraine will be happen only if it is overwhelmingly in Trump's personal interest, like everything else he does. Congress locking down his agenda until he restarts US aid to Ukraine and applies strong sanctions on Russia, for example.
Support for Ukraine is popular with Americans, even Republicans, but Trump doesn’t budge on this issue, loyal to Putin since 2016 despite Putin spitting in his face repeatedly. Unfortunately, the GOP won’t challenge Trump on this or anything else.
Republicans are so loyal to Trump that they don’t care about the deficit, or record corruption, standing up to Russia, masked agents killing citizens in the street, gun rights, or even pedophilia. That’s how populist cults work. Treason exists only against Dear Leader.
Trump is an old lame duck with low approval and yet they’re acting as though he and his gang will be in power forever. That should be a dire warning, because that’s exactly what they intend to do. The integrity of the midterms must be defended because 2028 will be too late.
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