In a phone call that exceeded two hours, the narcissistic, Putin-smitten Malignant Fascist got on board with another stall with the Russian war criminal Vladimir Putin. The MF posted a long social media summary, apparently swallowing Putin's praise of his Gaza ceasefire and of Third First Lady Melanie Melania Trump's actions on getting kidnapped Ukrainian children back to Ukraine.
Placing the call one day before Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet with the MF, Putin pressed the gullible MF not to sell Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which would help Ukraine further diminish Russia's oil and military capabilities deep within Russia. He falsely claimed that Russia had the "strategic initiative" with Ukraine, despite overwhelming evidence that Ukraine was deterring Russia's attempts to gain more territory, and damaging its oil production facilities. From CNN:
"Timing in diplomacy is everything, and the Kremlin seems to have timed its latest, lengthy phone call with the White House – the eighth in the past eight months – to perfection.
With US President Donald Trump poised to meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, and publicly weighing the risks of supplying Kyiv with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, Russian officials described the call they initiated as “positive and productive,” and “held in an atmosphere of trust.”
In fact, it was a nearly two-and-a-half-hour intervention by President Vladimir Putin – a last-minute bid to halt in its tracks all that dangerous talk of potentially game-changing US weapons supplies to Ukraine. [snip]
According to one Kremlin aide, Putin also praised Trump as a peacemaker in the Middle East and beyond.
Economic deals were again dangled, and – crucially – there was an agreement for a second face-to-face presidential summit, this time in Budapest, Hungary, where ending the Ukraine war could once more be discussed, if not agreed.
That will raise inevitable comparisons with the failed Alaska summit just a few months ago, when Trump gave Putin a red-carpet reception but secured no tangible results in his push for an Ukraine peace deal." (our emphasis)
When you're dealing with a narcissistic, damaged child like the MF, he's putty in the hands of a former Soviet intelligence officer, who knows how and when to push his buttons. The call's timing, the unctuous, transparent flattery (always), and the scheduling of another meeting intended to further delay new weapons for Ukraine is the sign of someone who knows they have the MF under their control.
(photo: The dynamic between the two is obvious)
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