I sogni più selvaggi di Vladimir Putin stanno diventando realtà

Dreams? That’s a little passive.

This is the culmination of decades of hard work by Vlad and the Russian intelligence apparatus. 

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Nearly 40 years in the making

Through compromat, election manipulation, and bribes Putin has an agent in power.

He’ll do the same in Europe. We need to protect democracy against foreign influence.

Sad how Europe didn’t do anything but talk. In their own backyard too

Well, he worked hard for this.

America really should have waited it out for another buyer. Musk being a Russian stooge and all.

Almost three years into [Vladimir Putin](https://www.newstatesman.com/tag/vladimir-putin)’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine – a war he appeared to be in serious danger of losing during the first 12 months – the Russian leader finds himself with an unexpected ally in Washington. [Donald Trump](https://www.newstatesman.com/tag/donald-trump) appears determined not only to end the war on Putin’s terms, but to take down Volodymyr Zelensky’s government in the process.

“You should have never started it,” Trump said of the Ukrainian leadership at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on 18 February. “You could have made a deal.” In reality, of course, it was Russia that invaded Ukraine, with Zelensky rallying his citizens to defend the nation against the full-scale Russian assault from the land, sea and air. An early round of ceasefire talks [fell apart](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraine) in the spring of 2022 as the two sides failed to agree terms and the Russian military’s massacre of civilians in the Ukrainian cities of Bucha and Irpin was revealed.

On 19 February, Trump escalated his attacks on Zelensky, calling him a “Dictator without Elections” in a post on his Truth Social platform and warning the Ukrainian president that he “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left”. Trump derided Zelensky as a “modestly successful comedian” and a “terrible” leader who wants to continue the war to “keep the ‘gravy train’ going”.

These are Russian talking points. Whether he knows it or not – or more likely just does not care – Trump is legitimising Putin’s warped argument for starting the war, according to which Russia is not the aggressor determined to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state, but simply defending its own legitimate interests. In this parallel reality, Zelensky’s administration is portrayed as a puppet regime, following orders from the US and its Western allies in order to weaken Russia and bolster the nefarious defence-industrial complex.

“I would like to have more truth with the Trump team,” Zelensky said at a briefing for reporters in Kyiv on 19 February, where he pointed out some of the most obvious errors in Trump’s recent statements. His approval rating is not 4 per cent, as Trump has recently claimed, but around 57 per cent, [according](https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/europe/zelensky-trump-reaction-intl/index.html) to a poll conducted earlier this month, comparable to the US president. As any of Trump’s national security team should be able to tell him, elections have not been held in Ukraine since the start of the war because the country is currently under martial law, with around 20 per cent of its territory under Russian occupation and Ukrainian towns and cities under continuing bombardment. With the Russian military systematically targeting Ukrainian hospitals, schools and civilian infrastructure, the Ukrainian government believes, rightly, that the polling stations needed to conduct an election would be vulnerable to attack.

These aren’t his wildest dreams, they are he culmination of many years of careful statecraft, anti left and anti migrant propaganda and investment in middle eastern and south american wars and rebel groups to create even more migrants.

This is a long play that has worked like a charm for him because the west’s leadership has been too short sighted to build up their non military and military defences against Russia.

The social media platforms have been a particularly useful medium for the russian troll factories.

He destroyed the US from the inside, after the fall of the USSR and the absolute hegemony of the empire, Trump is here to be the useful idiot.

Just pet him and he’ll triumphantly wag his tail.

It’s so easy to play with people’s vices

I have a dream for him, it’s unpublishable. You could fill in thoughts for me on this dream if you choose.

All he had to do is take over America with propaganda and misinformation to the weakest minds.

What if it results in a more powerful EU?

Trump’s style of negotiation is literally the laziest attempt at getting a deal done… just give the other party everything they have asked for. So much for the art of the deal 🫠

Pretty sure he has not stopped cumming since Trump got elected.

Putin played 4D chess on Europe. He is really a genius.

Red, wet dreams