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marmar

(80,062 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 11:17 AM Mar 2022

Could Putin and Trump be any more similar, except maybe in the IQ department?


Putin appears at big rally as troops press attack in Ukraine


Lviv, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally in Moscow and praised his country’s troops Friday as they pressed their lethal attacks on Ukrainian cities with shelling and missiles.

Moscow police said more than 200,000 people were in and around the Luzhniki stadium for the rally and concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula, seized from Ukraine.

The event included well-known singer Oleg Gazmanov singing “Made in the U.S.S.R.,” with the opening lines “Ukraine and Crimea, Belarus and Moldova, It’s all my country.”

As Putin prepared to take the stage, speakers praised him as fighting “Nazism” in Ukraine, a claim flatly rejected by leaders across the globe. ............(more)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/03/18/russian-strikes-hit-outskirts-ukraine-capital-kyiv-and-lviv/7088399001/




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Could Putin and Trump be any more similar, except maybe in the IQ department? (Original Post) marmar Mar 2022 OP
I think Putin has dementia ffr Mar 2022 #1
Absotively! nt Atticus Mar 2022 #2
Putin is the boss and TFG is the servant LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #3
Why should Cheetolini get all the fun? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 #4
Clearly, if Vlad's giving donnie beauty advice, it's not being heard. lindysalsagal Mar 2022 #5
Imo, extremely different. Putin's dreams for Russia are huge; and Hortensis Mar 2022 #6

ffr

(23,448 posts)
1. I think Putin has dementia
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 11:29 AM
Mar 2022

It might explain his spiraling downward mental health.

TFG is more bi-polar narcissist.

Both are qualities unsuitable from anyone who should be in a position of power.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Imo, extremely different. Putin's dreams for Russia are huge; and
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 04:42 PM
Mar 2022

whatever his limitations (he's likely a psychopath) and whatever's happening now, his rise to control of Russia shows he's been ferociously competent, ruthless, and brave.

tRump's mental disorder does not allow any dreams that aren't about "I," "me," "my," "mine." If his dad didn't leave him ultrawealthy, he might well have grown old destitute and shunned by all who'd known him. I believe he's severely lacking in the qualities that would allow him to rise to become manager of a Walmart, but not those that could have lead to a series of incarcerations for fraud and theft, and. who knows, maybe sexual assaults.

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