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Born of the backyard brawls of Leningrad and a product of the gangster underworld of “Bandit Petersburg,” Putin harbors a vicious, vengeful desire to absolutely humiliate Trump – to disgrace him, crush him, destroy him.
The Russian criminal world knows nothing of social thinking or nuance. It worships only the predatory instinct of either-or.
And that is Putin’s weakness.
Because instead of subtly leading Trump by the nose, slicing off bits of his ego chunk by chunk, Putin wants it all – and he wants it now.
For Putin, the best kind of opponent is the humiliated, disgraced opponent.
And yet, he could have at least pretended to exploit Trump as if Trump were an irreplaceable dialogue partner – rigid, awkward, forced to be flexible, tensely balancing between chaos and coherence.
Now, across the globe, there is a widespread, almost universal conviction: Trump has embarrassed himself.
He has sunk low – very low.
He’s become a joke.
And he has severely and brutally humiliated the institution of the U.S. presidency.
This has triggered a massive wave of ridicule and condemnation.
Trump has no move left but to fire off a text to the world saying something like:
“I told Putin that if he doesn’t… then I will… and very soon I’ll show him who’s boss!”
I’m genuinely curious what kind of excuse this imbecile will tweet next.
I say again:
If it weren’t for the nightmarish suffering of the Ukrainian people – if it weren’t for the ever-growing number of Ukrainian civilian and military casualties – this catastrophic downfall of Trump would have been a blessing.
First, because soon Trump will have nowhere lower to fall. He will have drained, irreversibly and irreparably, his quota of outrages, idiocies, vulgarities, and cretinisms.
And second, because for democratic societies – including the U.S. – this will be a lasting, sobering realization:
Far-right populist psychopaths are insanely dangerous and dangerously insane.
In that sense, Trump is like a vaccine against the far-right populist-psychopathic masochism that democratic countries have underestimated and into which they stumbled – at mortal risk to themselves.
May 23, 2025
