Translation from trumponian to basic English: "I said to Putin that he can kill Ukrainians without any, even the slightest, nuisance from the West for the next 50 days"

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

tariffs will end the war just like the sanctions did /s

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

What will they tariff that is not under sanctions?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump finally figured out that Putin was jerking his chain and LOL he mad. The narcissistic personality brain will never forgive or forget someone they see as having screwed it.

Also, he's an idiot for thinking Russia can just stop the war. Putin's in even worse shape than Netanyahu. Stopping the war would be economic, political and perhaps literal suicide.

[–] Domino@quokk.au 9 points 2 days ago

It remains to be seen if anything will actually happen in 50 days.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Trump finally figured out that Putin was jerking his chain and LOL he mad.

They've been going back and forth like this since his first term. Trump and Putin are both routinely lying to one another and getting mad when the other one is caught out. Hell, this backstabbing escalation is what got us into the war to begin with - Trump throwing a bunch of arms into Ukraine that weren't well managed which resulted in a bunch of territory fights. Putin using his own proxies to fuck around on the border, which lead to free-fire in the Donbas between Ukrainian paramilitary and Russia-aligned militia groups. More arms and intelligence fuckery leading to repeated violations of Minsk II, until militias were outright shelling one another from opposite sides of the border.

Biden inherited this shit-show and spent four years trying to put out the fires that Trump's grab-bag of neo-con warmongers and white nationalist Russia-lovers kept spraying lighter fluid all over.

I would not be surprised if this ends with Trump trying to do to Russia what he did in Iran - sending in a flight of B-2 bombers in hopes that they'll magically end the conflict, then trying to claim a victory in the middle of yet another Russian retaliation.