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How do you think Putin sees American voters right now and the country as a whole?

Asked by mazingerz88 (28823points) May 3rd, 2019 from iPhone

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Tropical_Willie's avatar

Fourth graders.

josie's avatar

He, like all Russian leaders since WW2 , sees Americans and the US in the same way that some politicians here see the Constitution- An annoying presence that keeps him from doing whatever he wants.

Yellowdog's avatar

Our own media, whether to raise ratings or to drive a political agenda, and some at the top in the former administration’s three main intelligence agencies, have peddled far more discord, misinformation, and division than anything the Russians could have done.

That’s not to say the Russians’ role was small. The infamous Steele Dossier, widely circulated by the above, was Russian disinformation meant to influence an election.

stanleybmanly's avatar

I think Putin like the rest of the world could not believe it possible for Trump to be elected in a country with a reputedly literate electorate. It must come as quite a shock to discover that our President is in fact more dense and clueless than he and the rest of us supposed. It must be a sobering experience to live through the actual consequences of an idiot knucklehead at the helm of the United States. For example, while the obvious advantages to Putin of a divisive and disrupted American government are visibly apparent, the possibility of the fool forcing the Congress to dig into Trump’s role as a partner in Putin’s looting of Russia was probably unanticipated. Even though Putin is blissfully aware of the profound levels of ignorance defining the American public regarding world affairs, the upcoming exposure of the stupendous levels of theft underpinning Putin and his cronies will now be LOUDLY proclaimed to the world. The Democrats are going to strip Trump naked, and as we have seen, it is those in cahoots with the snake that are destined to fry first.

Yellowdog's avatar

Why isn’t that supported by the evidence?

There have been FOUR major investigations: F.B.I (9 months) House Intel, congressional, and a bipartisan senate—before the Mueller report. And they all turned up NOTHING.

Furthermore, the origins of the Russia hoax are as clear as those who propagated it from the beginning—in the Obama administration / Hillary campaign. Dude, the Russia hoax is over

You keep referring to the president as “the fool” yet you are the one who still believes in all that above which you just posted, and its plainly not there.

Time to investigate its origins and let justice take its course.

Zaku's avatar

My sources still have it as “AG Barr seems to have misrepresented the Mueller report” and in any case the report seems to show many cases of obstruction of justice.

And, “NOTHING”? ”(Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election has ensnared dozens of people, including several advisers to President Donald Trump and a series of Russian nationals and companies.”Factbox: Guilty pleas, indictments abound in Trump-Russia probe

And…
Barr: “It’s Not a Crime” for Trump to Demand Staffers Lie to Investigators
Isn’t that literally obstruction of justice?

Yellowdog's avatar

Trump did not tell McGahn to lie, nor to fire Mueller.

The very article you site even says it accurately. Trump told McGahn to go to Rod Rosenstein that Mueller had a conflict of interest, and had to go.

Mueller did, of course, have a glaring conflict of interest in that he was VERY close to James Comey, and in the case of Rosenstien, the prosecuter was a witness. This would not in any way end the investigation but would meet the requirements of the laws that are in place to prevent a biased or rigged investigation

Everyone on Mueller’s team was conflicted. They were all Trump haters, Hillary Clinton supporters, and a few were Hillary Clinton’s personal attorneys or attorneys for the Clinton foundation.

Pointing this out and attempting to appoint a new investigator is not tantamount to “telling McGhahn to fire Mueller.”

stanleybmanly's avatar

@Yellowdog. Trump haters? Mueller, Comey, Rosenstein, etc.—- these people are lifelong REPUBLICANS. When did the Law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the Federal government morph into allies of the left? The proposition is absurd on its face, and a hopeless distortion of the truth. To pretend a slimeball like Trump unworthy of investigation is just plain stupid. Everyone who touches him winds up in jail, fired when refusing to undertake crimes to his benefit, or disgraced through mere association with the walking dung heap. How can you ignore the trail of carnage and destroyed reputations in the fool’s wake? Are you blind as well as deaf? The FBI and intelligence services were forced to sort through the muck coating the fool if only to maintain any semblance of competence. And now that the Congress has its teeth in him, the promise is that the House will shake the living shit out of his lumpy ass to reveal exactly just how foul a turd we’re saddled with.

stanleybmanly's avatar

And we’ll see about collusion as a peripheral motive when the House switches the locus to Trump’s real estate empire’s convenient role in facilitating the looting of the Soviet Union. THIS is what I meant by Putin’s unforeseen consequences in playing footsy with the fool.

Patty_Melt's avatar

In answer to OP, I think Putin is laughing his ass off, partly because he sees American liberals cutting off their noses to spite their face, but also because the media roil is so hysterically reaching for anything that will validate their myths and delirium.

stanleybmanly's avatar

Yes and the pace of the “delirium” accelerates and intensifies. I’ll say this, if Trump survives unscathed like Hillary, it will be a monumental achievement. I wonder if the Democrats will manage to dog Trump for 30 years?

flutherother's avatar

Putin has said that he wanted Trump to be elected and Russian intelligence agents tried to ensure it happened. Now why would that be do you suppose?

Patty_Melt's avatar

Honestly, I don’t believe Putin wants the US. I think his interest is only that we don’t f_c_ with him. And now that warming has been melting some of his permafrost, he is considering how to best make Russia the next hot vacation spot. So? Let him ask Trump to build some luxury hotels. Perhaps at long last we can be allies.

Zaku's avatar

Putin’s interest is in Ukraine and other adventures, and ending the sanctions , which Trump’s first Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had a clear conflict of interest about (despite official gestures to the contrary), having made deals with Putin as CEO of Exxon before, and being a key figure in the petroleum industry in general, associates with massive amounts to gain from sanctions on Russia being dropped.

Yellowdog's avatar

Ending the sanctions? There are more sanctions on Russia than there ever have been.

kritiper's avatar

A plump plum ripe for picking. Or just allowing and aiding to rot on the vine.

Dutchess_III's avatar

A nation of fools.

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