He’s unrealistic. Putin is a KGB veteran. He was trained to expertly go after someone’s most blaring weakness.
And in these negotiations, he did that. By validating Trump’s worldview. Trump is a total sucker for that. You validate his worldview and he’s going to butter up to you.
trump is not your typical bumbling ineffective kiss-ass politician, as you well know and hate. compared to anything else that had been (not really) tried he’s 1000%. let’s see where it leads
That part of it bothers me the least. Because that’s just how international politics go. No matter how much of a scumbag the other guy is. You treat them respectfully, in a similar manner to our own president.
Only guy that didn’t get that level of treatment in the last 300 years was Napoleon. Because the allies literally declared war on him as an individual. So he didn’t get that level of respect.