of the Middle East. Putin's plan for invading and taking over all the breakaway states from the prior SovUn.
In 2017 Trump was reportedly seeking a "grand bargain" with Russia, but of course it started well before with Putin and Trump. Before he was ever elected, analysts of repute could think of no honest reason Trump would be supporting Putin so strongly and wondered openly if he'd been compromised or..
In 2018, the New Yorker reported that Saudi, Emirati nations, and Israel under its far-right government, wanted Trump to give Ukraine to Russia in a "grand bargain." These nations encouraged Trump's betrayal of us and our allies to Russia, and of course we see what's since happening with Syria, the Kurds, Ukraine, broken Iran nuclear deal, and much more.
Haaretz: Ron Dermer, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States and one of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus closest confidants, said that the Israeli government was encouraging the incoming Trump Administration to coöperate more closely with Putin, starting in Syria, with the hope of convincing Moscow to push the Iranians to leave the country. ... Like M.B.Z., Netanyahu made courting Putin a priority, particularly after Russias military intervention in Syria in 2015.
Separately, a former U.S. official recalled having a conversation after Trumps Inauguration with an Israeli Cabinet minister with close ties to Netanyahu in which the minister pitched the American on the idea of trading Ukraine for Syria. The former official told me, You can understand why Russias help with Syria is a far higher priority for Israel than pushing back on Russian aggression in Ukraine.
You know, whatever our orange clown puppet hoped to get out of this is NOTHING, a curiosity, to what he's trying to give away. Putin plans a new world order, with the U.S. a broken democracy and Russia and China as the superpowers, China of course only because Putin has no choice.