.MaddowBlog: Putin saw an American president moving in a direction Moscow liked, and the Russian leader was waiting for Trump to finish the job.
— is that Trump’s actions were in line with Moscow’s goals, and an invasion of Ukraine risked upsetting the balance.
Putin wanted to undermine the NATO alliance, and Trump undermined the NATO alliance. Putin wanted to weaken the E.U., and Trump made little effort to express his disdain for the E.U. Putin wanted to help authoritarians, and Trump cozied up to authoritarians. Putin wanted to hurt Ukraine, and Trump launched an extortion scheme that threatened to hurt Ukraine. Putin wanted to weaken the U.S. political system, and Trump was unnervingly aggressive in trying to weaken the U.S. political system.
All of which is to say, why would Putin rock the boat when Trump was already steering it in the Kremlin’s preferred direction? But Bolton has presented a related explanation that’s quite credible: Putin saw an American president moving in a direction Moscow liked, and the Russian leader was waiting for Trump to finish the job.: In case this isn't obvious, this should not be seen as any kind of endorsement of Bolton's hyper-hawkish worldview, which I've beenRather, Bolton's perspective on stories like these matters precisely because of his influential role on Team Trump.
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