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Ilikepurple

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19. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Sun Nov 30, 2025, 05:53 PM

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Putin and Trump are obviously allied to some degree with Putin seemingly having the upper hand in the past. With the power Trump wields now, it’s hard to know who has the upper hand presently. Is Trump cutting his puppet strings and going in without Putin’s blessing? Or have Trump, Putin, and Xi have some understanding about Venezuela, Ukraine, and Taiwan? It’s bad either way, but I fear the latter more.

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