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Military Analyst Accuses Trump of Treating Putin Like a Laughingstock with Failed War Predictions
The Trump Report
Trump's allies need to stop taking the punches — it's time to play him at his own game | Sean Bell
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"The danger here is I think President Putin might actually be treating President Trump as a bit of a laughingstock. You'll recall that during the Iran war, I think it was well over 30 times that President Trump claimed that the war was almost at an end when it blatantly wasn't. So either he was, I'll be charitable, unwittingly telling mistruths or he genuinely didn't know what was going on."
Retired Air Vice Marshal Sean Bell suggests Vladimir Putin may be playing Trump after the president's repeated failed predictions about conflicts ending. Bell notes Trump claimed the Ukraine war would be solved before taking office and within his first day, yet has made no progress. He points to Trump's 90-minute call with Putin being followed immediately by Russian strikes on Kyiv as evidence Trump has no leverage over the Russian leader.
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- Trump's allies need to stop taking the punches — it's time to play him at his own game | Sean Bell
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