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This is literally what he said. “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius,’ ” Mr. Trump said during the radio interview “Putin declares a big portion of of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. So, Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’”I mean, he’s taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart,”“He was going to be satisfied with a piece and now he sees the weakness and the incompetence and the stupidity of this administration,”
Exactly.
He's calling the Biden administration weak and suggesting that Putin is taking advantage of that weakness, as any "smart" strongman would (including himself).
Do you see that as a call for more conciliatory words and policies on behalf of the Biden administration (and NATO)? I feel like it's a pretty clear call for what Trump sees as being the opposite: A show of "strength" through military posturing and action. And with that comes a suggestion that if he was in power this is what he would do.
Where do you disagree with my interpretation of that statement?