• Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I honestly think that this was a favor Trump did for Putin. Set the precedent that you can just kidnap leaders. Now Russia makes an attempt to capture Zelensky and no one bats an eye.

    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      It also isn’t at the same time because flooding the market with Venezuelan crude and taking over a country that was allied to Putin doesn’t help him much at all.