Collision Resistance@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoPutin says he would prefer Biden to win the United States election rather than Trumpwww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down131file-textcross-posted to: us_news@lemmygrad.mlworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkPutin says he would prefer Biden to win the United States election rather than Trumpwww.ft.comCollision Resistance@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: us_news@lemmygrad.mlworld@lemmy.world
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·9 months agoA former CIA officer basically argued the same thing back in 2022 The timing of the Ukraine hostilities, Koffler said, was because Russians assessed President Biden as more predictable than former President Trump. They feared Trump because of “his unpredictability and the disconnect between his words and actions. So, it is possible that Putin would’ve waited if Trump were in office, because he just couldn’t predict what Trump would do.”
A former CIA officer basically argued the same thing back in 2022