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[–] 32 points 2 days ago (12 children)

It's funny how Trump looks up to Putin, and how they are equally stupid.
They could hold a press conference together, where they both stupidly persist with the claim that everything is going according to plan. While neither is making any progress. 🤡

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    You can call Putin a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (3 children)

    I absolutely can, because he is a moron that is destroying Russia just as much as Trump is destroying USA.
    The idea that Putin is smart is proven utterly false.
    He is a one trick pony, and that trick worked fine for years, but as soon as he was called on it everything collapsed for him.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Putin is definitely not stupid. He has been the president of Russia since 26 years (forget about Medvedev), and has turned the country completely to his hand. That is no easy feat. But when you create your own tiranny, you create the risk of tunnel vision, you create the ideal circumstances for corruption, especially in a country that was ruled by corruption for decades.

    Putin is not stupid. He is blind.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago* (1 child)

    You know you can be insane and shrewd at the same time. He has maintained power by being ruthless not by being smart. Unless you call it smart to make terrorist attacks on your own people to manipulate the vote. That's his 1 trick ruthless manipulation. Being a psychopath is not being smart. And I bet his life is hell and he lives in fear, something he could have easily avoided if he had had more than 2 brain cells.

    Being politically blind is also being politically stupid. Same thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Intelligence comes in many forms. Trump certainly has some kind of intelligence, if only that of a psychopath. Putin was a KGB officer with a high rank. You need skills to get there, you need skills to stay in power for that long. So whether it's shrewdness or actual intelligence - he is somehow really skilled to do his job. And I long for the time that he is removed from his position, but I'm afraid that he is skilled enough to stay in power for years, and his pet Trump will not beat Putin in this regard, but I'm afraid he will live a long life.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Trump is a lot more stupid. Putin was confident because he took Crimea and part of Donbas with no push back from Nato

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    Putin has not lost yet. He played the USA. Trump 2 was definitely partly his doing. France and Germany are up now. If one of them turns extreme right with the next elections, the EU is in shambles. He may have destroyed the Russian economy, but he may just survive this war long enough to destroy the EU, NATO and the USA.

    I've read so many stories where Russia is about to collapse, and then it doesn't and suddenly it has free reign with their ballistic missiles as the Patriot missiles are out of stock, and things start to change as the EU is still afraid to really step up their game.

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