Does Trump “Understand the World?” Does It Matter?
In truth, it’s hard to know exactly how much Trump has control of the geopolitical world. When he was in office, we commonly heard from his staffers how little interest the former president had in briefings, even on critically important matters.
In truth, however, what Trump understands or doesn’t understand about the world is immaterial. What counts is his understanding of his voters, and the dynamics by which this core base of morons affects the behavior of congresspeople in red states.
What matters to Trump is not how decent and intelligent people around the world respond to the most outrageous statements, like the one here. It’s all about coalescing a group of hateful, gullible, and undereducated working class Americans around this one cult figure.
With all the bad, there are quite a few good things that can be said about the MAGA crowd. For one, they cannibalize, they devour one another.
My wife believes, and I think she is correct, that what made Trump such an enormous danger to our country and the world in general is that no one ever stopped him. He got away with everything–the lies, the impeachments, the fraud, the opposition from within his own party, and now, so far at least, an act of treason, i.e., an attempted coup.
The meme here exemplifies what we’ve been hearing out of Ukraine, i.e., that their proud and brave citizens are being surprisingly effective at fighting off their aggressor to the east. (A similar cartoon portrays a salmon’s sharp teeth chomping down on the nose of the bear that had just snatched him out of midair as he was making his way upstream. I’ll add it below if I can find it.) 
Like this gentleman, I believe that Putin’s outrageous aggression will result in his downfall, and perhaps for this reason he suggests.
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I’m afraid you do, Mitt.
As the Russian invasion into Ukraine continues, we find ourselves wondering about the effectiveness of the sanctions that the rest of the world has imposed on the aggressor. Some say that Russia is experiencing a financial meltdown “as we speak,” others claim the effects are minimal. It will be interesting to find out; they can’t both be true.
