You might like this, even though it's AI
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6/6

5/6 If Trump gets this, we are in a hall of mirrors, & the nauseating spectacle of validating war criminal Putin's great leaderness could just be a show & smokescreen that ultimately leads to his downfall. Fwiw Tom Graham & Paul Stares @cfr.org think the beginning of the end is now near.

4/6 On his wannabe great power tour of India, Putin makes news in their fawning media saying he ditched Ushakov & Dmitriev & met solo with Witkoff & Kushner 🤔 & refers to an agreement (?!) with Trump in Alaska @gregterry.bsky.social
Seems pretty clear that to Putin, it's all about him.

3/6 Putin's ego & delusions of grandeur got him into this war.
@cfr.org Tom Graham suggests this is the driver that could also get him out of it. Trump's unique leverage over Putin is that Putin's ego can only be satisfied by Trump's validation of Russia as a great power.

2/6 But how can Trump's US stop him, when Putin has staked the legitimacy & stability of his rule on "victory," & his appetite for risk is *far* greater than ours? Business deals appeal to his cronies (& Trump's) but not to the world's richest kleptocrat (& are reprehensible @wsj.com )

Dmitriev wearing the cringiest jacket possible, Melania should have been there

As unsubtle as possible for Dumkoff & Poshner tomorrow who need to be made to understand the extortionate price Putin plans to demand to do business

Another sleepless night for Witkoff

Ukraine needs to be sending its folks here to show us how it's done rooting corruption out of the presidency

Happy Ukraine is our anti-corruption democracy role model Friday

Budanov keeping it real

Budanov keeping it real

It is such typical Kremlin troll to blow up the peace process by quickly getting caught obviously trying to jam it