The idea that the Kremlin has kompromat on Trump seems increasingly plausible

[LiberalArkie]

Whether or not the Islamic Republic of Iran politically implodes in the aftermath of the American-Israeli aerial onslaught, and regardless of whether there is an uneasy truce or phoney war between the participants, a far greater issue confronts the Continent of Europe – namely what will become of Putin’s ongoing war against a sovereign UN member state, Ukraine.

Far from ending that war – which has caused far greater casualties than the recent three years’ fighting in the Middle East within 24 hours – as Trump boasted he would to American voters this time last year, Putin is raising the military stakes in an unabated attempt to subjugate Ukraine.

What is Trump doing to stop Putin’s war? Nothing, it seems. But why? Any display of substantial US military assistance for Ukraine could make further prosecution of Putin’s invasion futile. It would not involve American boots on the ground in Ukraine. It would not risk nuclear warfare. If Putin sensed that the US was serious in preventing a win for Russia in Ukraine, a ceasefire followed by a peace conference would ensue.

But Trump won’t even countenance further sanctions against Russia. He astonished his so-called allies by calling for Russia’s readmission to the G7 summits. He regularly suggests that Ukraine somehow started the war with Russia. He called President Zelenskiy a dictator and insulted him grossly at an ambush in the Oval Office – the political pigsty where idiotic parodies of international diplomacy are staged. He has hardly more than murmured against the Russian missile onslaught on Ukrainian cities


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https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/06/25/the-idea-that-the-kremlin-has-kompromat-on-trump-seems-increasingly-plausible/

Umm … that would be a hard YES!

— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2025-08-18T22:10:50.708Z

[niyad]

1. NSS

[tanyev]

2. Maybe, but Trump doesn't act like someone who's being threatened when he's around Putin.

He acts like a puppy who’s seeing his favorite person in the whole world.

[Buckeyeblue]

3. Maybe Putin has said if you listen to me you can be president for life

But I still think there is something he's holding over Trump's head.

[Chasstev365]

4. I bet it's a video of him abusing "Katie Johnson."

I wonder how much the Russians pay Epstein for the tape, as part of their decades long plan to own Trump.

[LiberalArkie]

5. I would bet that the Epstein gig was a Russian Bratva organization or parallel.

[OnDoutside]

6. It is what it is, what's more important now is that the rest of the "West" up their game to support and protect Ukraine.

[GiqueCee]

7. Was that...

... ever really in doubt?

[PatSeg]

8. Oh, I have no doubt of that

And I've believed it for a long time now. The more vehemently Trump denies something, the more likely that he is guilty, i.e. Epstein files.

Yep, Putin has something(s) on Trump and has been grooming him for decades now.

[usonian]

9. It was obvious many years ago.

Why all the fealty and outright treason?



Putin (KGB) and Epstein (PEDO) both loved photography.

Check this out.
Found on Mainboard.



Caption:
Vladimir Putin (while a KGB agent) poses as a tourist within killing range of President Reagan.


https://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/interesting-pics-in-history.46973/page-9