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Russia’s Hybrid War Against the West
As NATO struggles to figure out what to do, four more years of ass-kissing trumpism will surely guarantee Putin victory.
Trumpists and other not-so-observant people love to imagine that had Trump won in 2020, Russia would never have invaded Ukraine. Well, let them chew on this one: Had Hillary won in 2016, Putin would never have invaded Ukraine.
The four years of chaos and ass-kissing that took place under Trump from 2017 to 2020 so empowered Putin and weakened the U.S. that when Biden entered the White House, and COVID — and Trump’s criminal mismanagement — Putin felt not only ready to move on Ukraine but felt confident a United States severely distracted with rebuilding its weakened institutions and economy would have little appetite for stopping Russia.
It’s like two neighbors fighting over the apples falling from a tree that stands on the opposite side of the fence. The neighbor who owns the tree wants those apples back, but the one whose yard they fall into refuses. Then, the tree owner and his wife break up, and interest in the apples wanes. After the struggling couple makes up, their attention refocuses on the apples, but by this time, tons already lie in storage in the neighbor’s barn. It’s too late. Those apples are forever gone. When Biden…
