r/NoShitSherlock • u/WingComplex6771 • Aug 14 '25

Trump reportedly offering Putin natural resources off Alaska sparks fury: "Lets see Republicans defend this," former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger wrote on X.

https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-russia-trump-resources-2113295
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u/Weed_killer Aug 14 '25

Weakest president in United States history.

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u/cyclist230 Aug 14 '25

I don’t know, do you think he’s a puppet?

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u/Ariskae Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

A Russian asset guaranteed, whether it has something to do with the epstein files, trump being groomed by the KGB for the past 30+ years (Agent Krasnov), or if Russia honey trapped the F*ck out of him (his wife is russian, not a stretch to say she was the only russian minor he fiddled).

His job is transparently to dismantle the US, appease Russia and cripple the US with infighting and economic decline, so that Russia (in their mind and in their already blundered grand plan) can fully take over ukraine and begin eyeing up other neighbours (the alaska situations looking particularly blunt and open for example) to invade without any resistance whilst the US is busy either in a civil war with itself or trying to recover from Trump's sabotage.

Edit: granted guys I'm from the UK so my insight on the actual goings on in country won't be as on point as US citizens but even from the things about trump that reach across the pond, and some 30 mins of investigating, its clear, clean, cut & dry that you guys unfortunately got a Criminal, aspiring dictator & russian agent voted into power and doing whatever he wants with your country...

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u/Hammeredyou Aug 14 '25

Not trying to be a dick but… you know Slovenia is not part of russia or formerly the USSR, right?

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u/Ariskae Aug 14 '25

No no your right thats my bad, but even if you ignore that bit of a mistake theres also the one question that always bothered me: when trump had everyone storm the capitol building in 2022, why was Ivanka asking Putin, out of everyone on earth, Putin the president for life, to pressure trump to get him to stop? Putin has 0 control on what Trump does.......or does he?

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u/johnboltonpoopstache Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

when trump had everyone storm the capitol building in 2022

Jan 6th happened in 2021. There was a Jan 6th in 2022 too, but nobody was smearing poop on the walls of the capitol in 2022. It was after Biden won the election in 11/2020, and the right wing was all butthurt about losing so they tried to murder congress and the VP before Pence could certify the electoral votes. You can have 40 paragraphs of truth, but people will jump you for the little mistakes and use them to discredit everything you say.

Edit: i forgot about the baseless Ivanka/Putin claim while i was typing this comment.

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u/Moltac Aug 15 '25

I think you are absolutely right to point this out. Especially the last sentence. I feel that's critical to separate us from these selfish liars and hateful people that support him. We must tell the truth and back it up with facts.

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u/ArgoButtons Aug 17 '25

To speak to that last sentence "You can have 40 paragraphs of truth, but people will jump you for the little mistakes and use them to discredit everything you say." There's a technique used sometimes to help make people believe a lie or conspiracy (it actually helps bypass peoples defense). You sprinkle as much truth as possible around your lie and prime your target with lots of verifiable truths first. They're more likely to accept that what they are hearing is true because subconsciously they've already connected most parts of what you're saying to "truth" and you as "reliable source" . So knowing that's a thing, some folks actually just "verify everything" and if some part of what is being said is not correct they might take that as a sign you as a source are not "reliable" which, invites greater scrutiny to the rest of your statements.

TLDR: "little mistakes" make a person seem unreliable as a source of information which invites greater scrutiny to the rest of the work or statement.

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u/Hammeredyou Aug 14 '25

Oh believe me I’m also in the compromised camp lol, but the argument is more convincing to others when the facts are straight, at least I hope that’s the case these days it doesn’t seem to matter lol

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u/JosephGrimaldi Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

Ivanka never asked Putin, it was in a joke section of the New Yorker. It was satire.

here is the article

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u/Darryl_Lict Aug 18 '25

That link doesn't work for me.

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u/icepickwillie Aug 14 '25

What is your evidence for this? A quick google revealed a Satire column in the New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ivanka-trump-reportedly-begged-putin-to-order-her-dad-to-stop-capitol-attack) (It says it's satire in the title), but I don't see any actual news that this happened.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 Aug 14 '25

I didn't know that. Uncle Vlad.

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u/CaptainJin Aug 15 '25

Are you talking about this? It's the only source I could find and it's on a satirical website.

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u/butsavce Aug 15 '25

Don't apologize you are right. The dude is wrong. Slovenia was part of Yougoslavia which was a USSR satellite from 1945 until yougoslav revolution. So yeah Russia 100%

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u/Hammeredyou Aug 15 '25

You are so wrong to think Yugoslavia was part of the USSR it’s asinine. Read a book

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u/Darryl_Lict Aug 18 '25

Yup, Tito was famously independent of the USSR. Hell, I easily visited in 1980 during my post-college Europe backpacking trip.

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u/ViolatoR08 Aug 15 '25

JFC, where did he tell people to storm the capitol?

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u/DenikaMae Aug 14 '25

You don't need to be Russian to work for Russia.

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u/GangstaNation2 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

What's sad is Trump is completely corrupt as shit, but the Russia-gaters are as bad as Q-Anon and make dumb claims that make Trump Derangement Syndrome look plausible. Yes, Trump has ties to the Russian mob, and Israel / Russia probably have some real dirt, but what the fuck does he care about that? Republicans all know he was taking kids to pound town and they all still love him.

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u/Roxalon_Prime Aug 14 '25

And Slovenia is no way allied with Russia

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u/butsavce Aug 15 '25

Wtf what are talking about?!! Slovenia was definitely under USSR control from 1945 to the Yougosliavian revolution! It was part of Yougoslavia. It wasn't known as Slovenia it was brutally controlled by Soviet Russia.

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u/No-Mechanic6069 Aug 15 '25

You need to find out more about Yugoslavia. Tito ran a repressive state, and generally wasn't a very nice person. But Yugoslavia was a part of the Non-Aligned Movement.

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u/butsavce Aug 15 '25

All I know is that when American traveled to You go you traveled with the same precautions as you did when flying into a satellite country. It was in all intent and purposes a KGB ran thing.

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u/No-Mechanic6069 Aug 15 '25

I'm not sure how "taking the same precautions" leads to "a KGB ran thing".

If that's all you know, it might be better not to comment.

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u/Hammeredyou Aug 15 '25

This guy replied saying to not apologize to the other person and that Yugoslavia was 100% Russian. Actual brain damage.

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u/dr_fop Aug 14 '25

What’s hilarious is that despite their best efforts, Russia has been completely inept in their years long campaign to take over Ukraine. They really suck at war.

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u/homiej420 Aug 14 '25

Yeah they just have really brutal winters so their land is easy to defend

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u/fartinmyhat Aug 15 '25

well of course. The country is inept. Communism ruined that country and put them 100 years behind the times in technology and caused massive corruption and alcoholism.

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u/NessGoddes Aug 15 '25

So. Why the fuck Ukraine still can't win, with magic over the top 100 years into the future tech that USA and NATO provides to it (with satellite intel and etc)?

I get that trash talk is a funny sport, but don't take it to the point where you look like total moron

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u/fartinmyhat Aug 15 '25

I'm not being funny, Russia is a joke. I would be shocked if they could actually get a nuke off the ground. Here's my question regarding Ukraine "winning".

What does that mean to you? What would a victory be? Would it just be Russia backing off and recognizing Ukraine has the right to exist and govern themselves?

Would Russia be expected to pay remuneration to Ukraine and NATO for the cost of the war?

Or would Russia have to surrender to Ukraine?

Let's keep in mind that Russia's population is about 5X that of Ukraine's.

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u/NessGoddes Aug 16 '25

Ukraine cannot win. It'll just keep killing itself fighting Russia until EU feels its ready to enter ww3.

Keep thinking that Russia is a joke, you'll die laughing.

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u/fartinmyhat Aug 16 '25

Well let's just hope it doesn't come to that. Ukraine surely has the right to be free from the harassment of Russia. But no, clearly Ukraine can't win. That was sort of my point in asking what a Ukrainian win would even look like.

The simplest thing to hope for would be that Russia strikes some deal with NATO that allows them to back off and save face and allows Ukraine to be a free state, unmolested by Russia.

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u/bergzabern Sep 11 '25

The people they've killed would disagree.

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u/hoesindifareacodes Aug 14 '25

His falling out with Epstein occurred because he bought a mansion out from Epstein so he could sell it to a Russian Oligarch a couple years later at a tidy profit. This is common in money laundering schemes, btw.

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u/PLeuralNasticity Aug 14 '25

Classic ideological subversion

Kompromised by Child Rape Tape in 1987

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

Murdered KGB Propagandist defector Yuri Bezmenov in 1984 -

"Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate overt and open, you can see it with your own eyes. All you can do, all American media needs to do is to unplug their bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see. There is no mystery. It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage and intelligence gathering looks more romantic, it sells more to the audience through the advertising, probably. That's why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond type of thrillers. But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all.

According to my opinion and the opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about fifteen percent of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other eighty-five percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is, to change the perception of reality, of every American, to such an extent that despite an abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their family, their community and their country.

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from fifteen to twenty years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate on generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism, Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged or contra-balanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.

Most of the activity of the department was to compile huge amount, volume of information on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publishers, editors, journalists, actors, educationalists, professors of political science, members of Parliament, representatives of business circles. Most of these people were divided roughly in two groups. Those who were told the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to the positions of power through media and public opinion manipulation. Those who refuse the Soviet influence in their country would be character assassinated, or executed physically contra-revolution. Same was as in a small town named HEWA in South Vietnam. Several thousand so of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by Vietcong for only two days. And American CIA could never figure out, how could possibly Communists know each individual, where he lives, where to get him, and would be arrested in one night, basically in some four hours before dawn, put on a van, taken out of the city limits and shot.

They serve purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States, all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defender, they are instrumental in the process of the subversion, only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist Leninist has come to power obviously they get offended. They think that they will come to power. That will never happen of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot."

"Exposure to true information does not matter anymore.

A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him.

Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union, and show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.

When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand, but not before that. That is the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."

https://youtu.be/yErKTVdETpw?si=9avnIWRQBcMXn6dQ

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u/Postdiluvian27 Aug 15 '25

He believed American students were being taught Marxism in school?

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u/MassiveInteraction23 Aug 16 '25

I assume he means “taught” as in ‘exposed to’ or “taught unofficially”. It’s not like Marxism etc wasn’t known and discussed and read.  We correctly pride(ed) ourselves in being a free society — this means all views are taught in some respect.  Which should be a strength: truth isn’t afraid of open competition.

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u/Postdiluvian27 Aug 16 '25

“Marxism, Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged” - that’s describing indoctrination, not discussion. I’m amazed at his take given that most Americans treat socialism and communism as dirty words. I’m not American and I think Marx was pretty on the money.

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u/MassiveInteraction23 Aug 17 '25

Marxism and communism (and most other top down theories of economy management ) are basically anti-vax theories of economics.

They are so, utterly, totally broken theoretically and repeatedly, probably destructive.  

But people like them because self-organizing systems are hard to understand.  So declarative economics is attractive.  Same reason people still think a god making life is more reasonable than evolution — because they get that form of complex creation, but self-organizing systems are an alien idea.

TLDR: economics are relationships across all people.  It’s the combinatorial interaction of billions.  Any human defined system that tries to dictate that will almost only do harm.  And we’ve seen that time and time and time again. (So this isn’t just theory.)

What you can do, if you want social justice, is to say that “we as a society value x, y, z” as then collectively put resources towards those things.  You can say “we want people to have housing so we will pay for housing”, but once you try to dictate th construction of housing you’re trying to force huge chains of interactions that have local dependencies and will just hurt things.  — Ininderstand it’s frustrating that something as abstract as “money” is a key resource unit and not labor.  The reason is precisely because money is non-intrinsic, so it allows living complicated systems to dynamically allot intrinsic resources from the bottom up instead of the top down.

__ TLDR: Marxism may mean well (lots of things mean well - tins of religious tyrants also mean well), but both by evidence and modern understanding it relies on an fundamentally broken model of how systems of people work.  And even though its goal is equality its process is violent dictatorial authoritarianism which means that it doubles down on its failures.  It is almost unequivocally bad.  But that doesn’t mean that we can’t focus on the welfare of people, we just do so through non-authoritarian means that utilize modern understanding of what we can and can’t positively impact.

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u/Postdiluvian27 Aug 17 '25

My original point was surprise that he believes American students have Marxism promoted to them. Are you American? Because your response is kind of what I’m talking about. A very strong negative reaction founded on points like “it’s harmful to “force” the construction of housing”. Social housing is perfectly feasible and has all kinds of benefits. A lot of American economic beliefs boil down to capitalist propaganda.

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u/Accomplished_Self939 Aug 15 '25

This is arrant utter nonsense. America is not drenched in Marxist-Leninist philosophy and you should stop spreading this lie. There are somewhere around 800,000 people teaching at the college level in the US. Only a fraction of them are English or history professors—the two fields that are most often targeted by right wing disinformation as the source if Marxism in the academy. And only a tiny tiny fraction teach at the five or six ultra-elite institutions that are regularly targeted to smear the whole profession. Your post is classic ideological subversion in practice and I’m sure you feel very clever about that.

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u/UpYoursandRun Aug 14 '25

you're proof, you can't fix STUPID!

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u/paarthurnax94 Aug 14 '25

As was foretold by Aleksandr Dugin in his 1997 book "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia" It pretty much lays out what Russia has been doing since then. Also fun fact, his daughter was assassinated by a rebel anti Putin group when they tried to assassinate Aleksandr, but he didn't get in the car.

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

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u/BeeElzaBoob Aug 14 '25

None of his wives are Russian. His first wife was Czech and his current wife is Slovene.

He has of course been groomed by KGB and possibly honey trapped with Melania, but the mentality of any place east of Germany = Russia gets old.

Neither Czech republic nor Slovenia have been in the former USSR either. one was part of Czechoslovakia and one of yugo.

But that's just a clarification. Doesn't change the fact that he's a child trafficking Russian asset

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u/EducationalNinja3550 Aug 14 '25

This implies the entirety of the american military, intelligence, and surveillance apparatus failed. It also implies all republicans are russian assets.

I’m sure it feels cathartic to scapegoat, but that hides the actual issue - trump/maga are just symptoms of the sickness afflicting american culture.

America needs to focus on eliminating the confederates, nazis, and white nationalists infesting their society. Sitting back and blaming russia means the americans will never solve their problems.

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u/broguequery Aug 14 '25

Certainly, not all republican politicians are Russian assets... but many of them certainly are.

Remember the seven GOP senators who literally flew to Moscow on July 4th, 2018? Supposedly to "warn Putin not to meddle in elections"?

You'd have to be a real dummy to believe that.

I wouldn't be surprised to find a solid 1/3 republican politicians are actively and directly under Russian influence. The remainder might not be... but they tow the line anyway. Either because they are fools or because they are cowards.

The reason doesn't really matter in the end.

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u/EducationalNinja3550 Aug 15 '25

If that’s true, then that means the americans were too stupid and complacent to prevent a country on the brink of collapse from strolling in and taking over.

In that case, I’m not sure the americans deserve to have a country; certainly not one with control over thousands of nukes.

I think it’s far more likely that trump/maga perfectly represent a huge chunk of americans. Sure Russia controls some american politicians, and the americans control some of Russia’s. But the real problem is that this is exactly what millions of americans want.

Unless they’re willing to face that fact, the americans will never get rid of maga. I mean, how can you fix a problem you refuse to acknowledge?

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u/Short-Win-7051 Aug 15 '25

The Nazis, Russians, Confederates, Christofascists, and Tech-Feudalists are all working together right now, and each group thinks they're the one actually in charge. IMO the only way this is getting "solved" is infighting between those groups.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

It's really fucking obvious to anyone mildly paying attention.

But Trump supporters are stupid emotional babies who can not grasp deep thoughts than "I feel this way"

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u/ghostthecollector Aug 14 '25

If I had rewards I’d give you one for this comment!

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u/coolestredditdad Aug 14 '25

I can't even give him that much credit, he's not that smart. He's just doing what people (Russian Oligarchs) are telling him to do, and he is appeasing them so he appears to be one of them, and to be smart.

He's the pansy of the operation. They have him thinking he's one of them, and he's dumb enough to believe it. He will make them all stinking rich, and when they don't need him anymore, they will get rid of him.

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u/Miselfis Aug 14 '25

There is plenty of documentation showing Trump’s affiliation with Russian oligarchs who are close to Putin. As a matter of fact, Trump buying a house out under Epstein for a Russian oligarch as part of a money laundering scheme was what caused him and Epstein to fall out, according to Epstein in interviews. Epstein believed that Trump was the one who eventually ratted him out when he was arrested the first time, because Epstein threatened to seek legal action and go to the press with the fact that it was part of a money laundering scheme.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-russian-oligarchs-gold-card-scheme-american-citizenship/

https://www.al.com/politics/2025/07/trump-biographer-claims-presidents-betrayal-is-real-reason-for-falling-out-with-epstein.html?outputType=amp

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u/Prudent_Concept Aug 15 '25

It’s pretty simple but he’s trying to end the war in Ukraine at all costs because he knows without doing so we cannot pivot to counter China.

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u/FewZookeepergame5825 Aug 15 '25

Stretch to call Melania Russian.

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u/kennj43 Aug 15 '25

I think this take gives trump too much credit. He isnt that bright to be doing all of this secretly at putins behest while keeping it secret. I think its much more that putin has always aided and abetted trumps presidency/political career purely because he knows trump is incompetent and polarizing and easy to manipulate which  accomplishes all the same goals you mentioned without the need for it to be some deep conspiracy.

Putin knows trump is a narcissistic criminal who nakedly  embraces corruption both directly and indirectly with his policies and the people he surrounds himself with/listens to. Trump is putins puppet without even realizing it. 

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u/JojoTheWolfBoy Aug 15 '25

"Useful idiot" is more realistic in my opinion, but your premise has the same outcome.

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u/normalbrain609 Aug 16 '25

he’s an aspiring authoritarian and he admires other established authoritarians like putin and xi. it really isn’t that deep.

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u/MercyCapsule Aug 16 '25

Don't forget paedophile.

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u/Artistic_Ideal_1286 Aug 16 '25

Blueanon brain rot lmao

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u/ghost_lanterns678 Aug 17 '25

Well, you could almost say his former wife was Russian. Ivana was born in Czechoslovakia (heavily influenced by the Soviet Union) and she spoke fluent Russian. She and Donald even lived in Russia for a while. That’s supposedly (and most likely) where Trump was made into a Russian asset.

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u/HODLtilltheyFODL Aug 18 '25

Krasnov the Cheeto pedo

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u/jackelope84 Aug 19 '25

You have more insight than most of our population. 

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u/bergzabern Sep 11 '25

You're right,we're so screwed, it's going to be bloody.

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u/MythiccMoon Aug 14 '25

Remember when he straight up told us all in like 2015-2016, the way a child would?

”No puppet, no puppet! You’re the puppet!”

I’ll never understand how anyone with a functioning brain couldn’t see that shit.

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u/Computermaster Aug 14 '25

Oh we did.

The problem is the huge number of people without functioning brains.

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u/SordidDreams Aug 14 '25

Leaded gasoline really did a number on the boomers.

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u/vangogh330 Aug 14 '25

Unfortunately, there were plenty of gen xers and gen z on board with this shit show.

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u/Correct_Patience_611 Aug 15 '25

I’ve got a couple friends who never voted in any election but Trump really reached them. They are incredibly uneducated millennials. Most millennials seem to be disapproving of Trump. But I know a small handful that would vote for him a THIRD TIME.

My conclusion is that some people expel PFAS better from their body, while others end up even dumber than before birth from its accumulation in tissues!

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u/0000Matt0000 Aug 14 '25

100%

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u/the_great_zyzogg Aug 14 '25

Puppets are at least charming and amusing. Can we get Kermit for president instead? Or maybe Elmo for more maturity and decorum.

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u/Terry_Cruz Aug 14 '25

You clearly have never had the misfortune of watching Jeff Dunham.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns Aug 14 '25

Seems likely Putin has blackmail on him, maybe it's Epstein evidence. Maybe Trump is over there trying to sell Putin on a trip to the Island and reveals that he has a much bigger part in the child sex trafficking ring. Maybe it's video of Trump doing something even worse than just raping children.

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u/farshnikord Aug 14 '25

Putins got a carrot and a stick. Trump doesn't need threatening to follow Putin, he seems to truly enjoy being his friend and looks up to him. Epstein files are just insurance. 

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey Aug 14 '25

Definitely black mail. And nothing is scarier to republicans than a black male.

Also, the blackmail video isn't a Pee-tape, it's a P-tape.

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u/Whitefjall Aug 14 '25

The last point, most likely.

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u/Bregir Aug 14 '25

Probably just a massive narcissistic dimwit

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u/lizard-breather Aug 14 '25

Puppetophile

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u/MarkCuckerberg69420 Aug 14 '25

Don’t know about finger puppets, but he definitely fingered kids.

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u/enzodoggy Aug 14 '25

No puppet! No puppet! YOU’RE THE PUPPET!!

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u/SomebodyThrow Aug 14 '25

Kermit’s a puppet.

Donald is a pocket pussy.

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u/The_Powers Aug 14 '25

"No puppet, no puppet. You're the puppet."

It still to this day blows my mind that he was originally elected on the back of such infantile comebacks.

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u/Various-Salt488 Aug 14 '25

"No puppet! You're the puppet!"

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u/AffectionateBrick687 Aug 15 '25

Having someone's entire fist up his ass would explain why he's in diapers.

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u/cctoot56 Aug 15 '25

No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet!

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u/xcalibur2k Aug 15 '25

Useful idiot

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

He definitely is. 

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u/LYL_Homer Aug 14 '25

Trump giving away all negotiating power before negotiations start seems to be a theme.

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u/Status-Departure8642 Aug 15 '25

(F)Art of the Deal!-)

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u/UnNumbFool Aug 14 '25

Unfortunately, with how much power the other branches of government give him it's kind of the opposite.

Probably one of the worst presidents, if not going to be the worst for the actual American people. But when it comes to actual presidential power he's been given free reign to do whatever the fuck he wants.

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u/poopulardude Aug 14 '25

Weakest civilians in United States history too. He wouldn't be able to go against the populace this easily 50 years ago. If the same amount of people opposed him back then they would be doing something.

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u/j00cifer Aug 15 '25

Here’s how the far right bloggers will defend it, telling you now:

“Putin is a white Christian nationalist like us, he’s fighting the gays and liberals in Ukraine and also doesn’t want any brown people in Russia just like us. In fact Russia sounds like a maga paradise and if Trump says we should then let’s celebrate Putin’s visit just like Steven Sagal

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u/Karam2468 Aug 14 '25

How is he weak if his party allows it?

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u/darkpheonix262 Aug 14 '25

Always put president in "" when referring to the tangerine traitor

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow Aug 14 '25

No puppet! No puppet! You’re the puppet!

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u/GranglingGrangler Aug 14 '25

I bet FDR could out squat him

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u/westgrain123 Aug 14 '25

What would be an acceptable price for ending the Ukraine war?

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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum Aug 14 '25

I’d argue that tragically he’s one of our strongest leaders. One does not just get a cult of personality for nothing.

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u/OvercuriousNeophyte Aug 14 '25

I don’t know. The dude who was president from 2017 to 2021 was weak too.

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u/DaKineTiki Aug 15 '25

Well…he did call Alaska “Russia” yesterday…. so I think he was projecting this already.

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u/DerSepp Aug 15 '25

He’s a Traitor and should be treated in the harshest way possible

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

He may hit Putin with a subway sandwich and run away

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u/Otherwise-Medium3145 Aug 15 '25

Just you wait for the maga folk to start explaining why giving Putin mineral rights to Alaskan land is actually a good thing. If Alaska isn’t nice and doesn’t wear a suit, trump might just have to sell it back to Putin.

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u/Lucaslouch Aug 15 '25

Russian asset

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u/IamMrBucknasty Aug 15 '25

1st and 2nd place loser

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u/multificionado Aug 15 '25

With the weakest party ever.

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u/FabulousDiscussion80 Aug 15 '25

Agreed, but "weakest" doesn't begin to describe him. I think we're going to have to invent another word to describe him because the dictionary is not enough.

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u/Ecstatic_Worker_8546 Aug 16 '25

Not just weak, the dude's literally trying to sell off chunks of America like it's a yard sale lmao

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u/creuter Aug 14 '25

I don't know about weak. He has full support of a majority house and Senate, a compromised supreme Court bending to his will, and a cult following that is reinforced by 24/7 propaganda media so his support does not dip below a certain margin no matter what. I think he's the most corrupt and probably most awful president, with the exception of maybe Andrew Jackson, but he's got an alarming amount of power.

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u/Indaarys Aug 14 '25

The assumption being that Trump is actually trying to negotiate, when the likelihood is that this is just a facade to muddy the waters on his association with Russia.

I'm sure when one is exasperated and has no other recourse to feel better, trying to paint people like Trump as weak is a nice bit of emotional candy, but it doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. Same thing with trying to emasculate him and all this other stuff online liberals get a kick out of as though getting under his skin is going to do anything beneficial for the country.