Like all political figures except those who have no redeeming qualities whatsover (Biden and Harris), Trump and Putin are a mixed bag. From Paul Criag Roberts at paulcraiigroberts.org:
Sizing Up Trump
Approaching a year since Trump’s third election as president, how do we sum him up?
He has done good things. He has closed the border. He is attempting to deport some of the many millions of illegal immigrants that the Democrats brought into our country. He freed the January 6 protesters framed by a totally corrupt Biden regime “Justice” Department and a whore media. He is attempting to dislodge the DEI that has replaced merit throughout US society including the military. He has taken steps to reduce the anti-Americanism of the enormous federal bureaucracy and to stop the weaponization of law against Americans who have traditional American values. These are enormous achievements, none of which would have been delivered by a Democrat regime.
In light of these achievements, it is frustrating that in other important areas Trump is failing disastrously. He has supported a genocide with American money, weapons, and diplomatic cover. He committed an act of war against Iran at the urging of Netanyahu. He has relied on orders to the President of Russia in place of diplomacy. When his orders are not obeyed, he imposes punishments. The current order is for a cease fire in Ukraine without addressing the underlying cause of the conflict. The punishment is orders to India and China to stop purchasing Russian oil. In other words, as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said of President George W. Bush, “he speaks as if he owns the world.” Trump’s sovereignty-denying behavior is the opposite of a peace-maker. He assaults the environment, thus insuring the hostility of much of America’s educated class who regard Trump’s opening of the pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling as a travesty. Clearly, the area cannot be both a refuge and an area of oil and gas exploitation. Environmentalists wonder how long before a bankrupt US government sells the national forests to timber companies. In his attack on Venezuela, Trump uses the claim of a war against drugs as a cover for a war to overthrow a country and resume US exploitation of its resources, just as George W. Bush used “the war on terror” to overthrow Arab states for Israel. What is the evidence that small craft in Venezuelan and international waters are loaded with drugs on the way to the US? How can any evidence be found when the boats are blown up and destroyed instead of boarded and inspected. What authority does the US have for boarding boats in Venezuelan and international waters? Trump’s policy is to destroy the craft and the people on them on suspicion alone without evidence or authority. If US police acted this way in the US they would be arrested for murder. A government cannot legally execute people without conviction for a capital crime. If there are Venezuelan drug runners, what is the evidence that they are connected to the government? How likely is it that Venezuela, which has been on Washington’s target list for years, would provide Washington with a drug excuse to overthrow the government and install a regime of its own?
NO Rothschild bank and lots of oil in Venezuela, comrade.