You're saying this like thats not his job. Trump isn't here to accomplish anything. Trump is here to stay out of russias way. But he still has to posture like he's doing something so the right wing eat it up and support him.

By every definition, he is a puppet. Including the definition where he has someone elses hand up his ass to control him.

[–] TwinkleToes@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fo Sho. I guess what I'm saying is it's still amazing how truly awful he is at it. And it screams how utterly desperate and terrible Russia's position is, despite their bluster and obvious failures, that they are somehow winning.

You can understand why they are trying to strong arm Ukraine into absurd concessions for almost nothing in return in terms of security guarantees - the war is not going well for Russia, they're still within a cab ride of their start position, destroyed their entire soviet arsenal inheritance, lost the Black Sea fleet, lost their 30-year Oil and Gas war chest, lost vital pieces of the Air Force's C&C, destroyed their primary oil export markets to Europe, wiped out their arms export industry, have made themselves a global pariah for decades, suffered 1 million casualties....etc etc etc.

And Trump is an obese octogenarian, who eats like a stoned toddler, and is likely to get his maneuverability clipped in the mid-terms. They're on a speed run to try and force an agreement that is more favorable to Russia than reality, never mind justice, should allow. This war will likely go down as one of the greatest self-owns in the history of foolhardy imperial misadventures. The scale of it is not far off of the Persians deciding to go teach that impudent Alexander a lesson. Trump's absurd tactics is, like so much of his entire schtick, based on complete bullshit and disastrous assumptions about how strong his position is. 4D Chess.