Intelligence comes in many forms. Trump certainly has some kind of intelligence, if only that of a psychopath. Putin was a KGB officer with a high rank. You need skills to get there, you need skills to stay in power for that long. So whether it’s shrewdness or actual intelligence - he is somehow really skilled to do his job. And I long for the time that he is removed from his position, but I’m afraid that he is skilled enough to stay in power for years, and his pet Trump will not beat Putin in this regard, but I’m afraid he will live a long life.

Can I install a camera in your bedroom? One above your couch so I can read the things you type? One in the toilet? No? But you have nothing to hide you said…?

He will not give the money. He makes a promise. He breaks the promise. Please people - don’t be stupid. Do not believe this idiot.

I hate the orange turd and your observation is about 100% wrong. He will not pay anyone. He will keep the money himself.

It is hilarious that every MAGA idiot and apparently you think that he is going to pay anyone that money. He has made similar promises before, breaking his promise time after time.

Putin has not lost yet. He played the USA. Trump 2 was definitely partly his doing. France and Germany are up now. If one of them turns extreme right with the next elections, the EU is in shambles. He may have destroyed the Russian economy, but he may just survive this war long enough to destroy the EU, NATO and the USA.

I’ve read so many stories where Russia is about to collapse, and then it doesn’t and suddenly it has free reign with their ballistic missiles as the Patriot missiles are out of stock, and things start to change as the EU is still afraid to really step up their game.

Putin is definitely not stupid. He has been the president of Russia since 26 years (forget about Medvedev), and has turned the country completely to his hand. That is no easy feat. But when you create your own tiranny, you create the risk of tunnel vision, you create the ideal circumstances for corruption, especially in a country that was ruled by corruption for decades.

Putin is not stupid. He is blind.

Hate, racism, misogeny and especially the wish to make others suffer more than they do, no matter the cost to themselves or to the nation or whatever. In the core it’s self hate, although they will deny it, and say you hate yourself if you confront them.

You know that caterpillars turn into soup when they cocoon? Until then they host a set of parasites that eat the soup to create the butterfly. The caterpillar and the butterfly are two independent creatures.