President Zelensky

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

I know that Trump does like to posture as the tough, no-nonsense, action-driven macho guy, but despite that, despite his bluster and rhetoric, I don't think he's as reckless as he puts on, or as he is painted. His 4 years in office probably had the fewest military adventures and actions than any president in a long time.

And scruple sor reason have nothikng to do with that, Neal. He is a coward. Thats simple. He has nos cruples to do underhanded deals, though, and a cionsistent opportunist. And that is why it is a blessing that he is not the one in the voal officve right now. Like Putin, he has a strongly psychopathic, antisocial personality structure. But he lacks the ice-cold calculating brains that Putin once had.Both men are extrneely brutal, but the means by which they project that brutality and aggressiveness are quite different. Both men show strongn signs of paranoia, since as long a sI can remember them, and obviously also extremely strong egocentrism, but team Trump scores heavily in additional narcissism.



I am no fan of Biden, and yes, obviously his age is clearly to be seen, and yet: you underestimate the value of having him in thsi crisis, not Trump. Biden is a brainc hild of the cold war, he knwos that gam,e, how it wa splayed, he knwos the rules of it, he was part of it. He is modest. And nevertehless he also is "America first", something that many in Europoe overlook and maybe even Americans. Not evertyhing he says and done is sleepy or slow, but simply: subtle and clever.



I non-hot-head is needed on our side. Because one thing I am 100% certain of now: Putin will not shy away from using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine if he thinks that is what is needed to rescue himself. I hate to sa yit, but nuclear wepaons use in the Ukraine to me is now a realistic scenario. We must not want to have Trump accidentally pushing him over that red line, or even encouraging him with subtle "signals".



We can only hope that the Russian intel or military will put bullets in Putin's head if he gives that order. Apparently the FSB, Putin's very own domain, is no longer strictly loyal to him. We should assist these powers - and never let Russia or the world know about it, not during the action, and not after it.