• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s not dumb only if their intent is to destroy the US and the West from within for Putin.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s still dumb. He’s forcing the west to reconfigure itself into a new economic structure that leaves the USA out of the loop. That will weaken us in the short term, but strengthen us in the long term (especially once Trump is gone and the USA joins the new global economic structure, albeit in a weakened capacity.) However, since Putin’s been in a quagmire in Ukraine for the past three years he’s not in a position to exploit that short-term weakness.

      This is a case of Trump’s idiocy overtaking his usefulness.

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      2 days ago

      He bankrupted his casinos, and he intends to do the same to US.

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        “Nobody knows more about bankrupting your own businesses like I do. People ask me, how can you bankrupt a casino? They’re money printers! And I tell them, I’m the best there is at it. I’m going to make this country the most bankrupt country there is and it is going to be so beautiful. People love me for this. They love me bigly.”