Is this the end of the USA?
Numb-nuts Trump just ran the worst and most ineffective meeting with a foreign leader that any USA president ever - going back to George Washington - has been involved in.
Despite his bluster and arrogance Trump must know how weak he is at negotiating, especially in his pathetic tariff and trade dealing over the last few months. It's been downright embarrassing to witness.
Before he went to Alaska, Trump had his weaselly press secretary Karoline Leavitt making wimpy statements to downplay the likely outcome of the talks. She talked of the meeting as a “listening exercise” which is quite a departure from all the shit that she's spouted in the past amplifying Trump's braggadocio.
Trump is a braggart and a blowhard but Putin, for all his faults isn't. He's a killer and for decades has got his own way running roughshod over friends and enemies alike and rarely says things that he hasn't followed through on.
Trump is a baby when compared to Putin. He's vain yet delicate being easily upset and having his fragile ego bruised. This makes him easy to manipulate and Putin, like a skilled puppet master knows just how and when to pull the strings. Putin flatters and Trump preens. Putin promises friendship and solutions and Trump comes away thinking that Putin is powerful and clever and himself, being his friend, equally powerful and very smart. And all this is on the world stage. The lasting memories are often of images of Putin's crocodile smile and Trump's imbecilic smirk.
We need to watch this space but to me, this latest USA/Russia 'summit' means that it's all downhill from now on."This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper."The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot.
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Scary.
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