Skin Crawl Time - Trump will be walking around acting like a military genius and Putin's pissed

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Hoping Putin is so pissed he releases the hotel tapes. Wouldn't that just make the weekend !! Putin, do it on Sunday and it can be the Palm Sunday Surprise

[tallahasseedem]

1. I think you're right...

Putin has the goods to make Trump look like an idiot. I doubt he'll be afraid to use them.

[Cosmocat]

2. Putin isn't pissed

He is a malevolent scumbag and all, but even he knows he can't be associated with backing a dictator gassing his own people.

He has to cock off, maybe do something small somewhere to make a point, but it is 100% kabuki theatre.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Yup, Trumpy did him a favor

[Dave Starsky]

4. This is so transparently phony...

It would be ridiculous if you read this plot in a book somewhere.

I guess we should be thankful it's playing out this way and not in the form of another "modern day Pearl Harbor".

[bigtree]

5. I'm sure Trump is strutting around like Patton this morning

...but Putin will like this for several reasons: He gets to point to the U.S. as military imperialists, his assets in Syria were untouched despite Russia bombing hospitals and civilians, Assad is untouched and unaffected, and he still has a firm hold of Trump's puppet strings.

[annabanana]

6. yup. . . . . n/t