International Politics

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I'm not buying this 'trump tough on russia' stuff 

I know we're in the honeymoon period and all that shite but howay

He's not tough on Russia. He's just trying to win among world leaders in general and he smells blood in the water.

Merkel didn't like that about Trump. She said that he turned everything into a competition that he had to win.

“The more people there were in the room, the greater was his urge to be the winner,” she added. “You can’t chat with him. Every meeting is a competition: you or me.”

You can see this at every step. When Trump is fighting a GOP primary, it's a blood feud. Once he wins it, he mellows out and he's willing to be friendly with those guys again.
Same now, he's beaten the Democrats so he is nice to Obama and even most of the press, they're no longer a threat. The new competition are Putin, Xi and other world leaders.

And like with Tim Apple, Trump just sees Putin not Russia, MBS not Saudi Arabia and Kim Jun Un not North Korea. And he respects those guys for what they achieved, the same way fighters respect their opponents but that doesn't mean that he doesn't want to defeat them. Same with Hillary Clinton, he respects her because she was a worthy opponent, he said so himself.