Putin Knows a Sucker When He Sees One

From this article from The Hill: 62 Percent of Voters Say Putin Wouldn’t Have Invaded Ukraine if Trump Were President.

I join the 62%, but not for the reason Trump would like us to believe, i.e., that he’s a stronger man, one whom Putin fears and wouldn’t have defied.

Putin loved every minute of Trump’s presidency and is doing everything in his power to arrange four more years of it. In addition to all the lies and criminality that crippled this nation’s credibility on the world stage, Trump came within a gnat’s backside of turning the U.S. into an authoritarian state, like Russia and China.  This would have been the end of America’s global leadership, and the beginning of the end of democracy as a major form of government.

Putin is among the most malevolent actors in human history, and he knows a chump when he sees one.