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Russia Just Admitted Trump Is Useless on Ukraine
What was carefully unspoken (but patently obvious) since the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term in the White House, has finally been acknowledged by the Russian leadership. And that only because Trump has now succeeded in destroying the majority of leverage the United States had in the Ukraine war - so Russia is signalling a shift in the power dynamics of how it expects the end game to play out. It's not gotten much attention so far, but it matters, we're seeing the practical signs of it starting to play out, so let's discuss.
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