The actions of Vladimir Putin are entirely predictable when one views his background. He was a believer in the communist ideology and a trained KGB operative. As such an operative, he was trained to do anything it takes to gain an advantage and achieve the aims of the USSR. As such an operative, he was taught that ethics or morality does not matter. All that matters is what the dominant elite wants. To achieve those goals, he was trained to lie, distort, misinform, create chaos and disruptions, play on the weaknesses of others, to cheat, to bluff, to take greatly calculated risks.

He is still an admirer of the communist USSR and of the perceived greatness of the USSR/s power and empire and longs to return Russia to that power and significance on the world state. He will do whatever it takes to achieve that end.

Yet, just after Putin has started an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the idiot Trump speaks of Putin with great admiration, calling him a genius. That tells one more about Trump than it does about Putin. Trump admires power, treachery, cheating lying, creating chaos which benefits him, vicious, aggressive, and abusive conduct without the slightest regard for ethics and morality. He has no loyalty to any principles, to our country, to our people to our constitution. All that Donald Trump has ever cared about is feeding his sociopathic ego and fattening his pocketbook.

To those who still sup0port Trump: How can you support and admire such a man??????? Your continuing support of Trump is nothing less than a renunciation of the core values and beliefs that have made our country great, of any sense of loyalty to our country and its constitutional principles. Your are supporting the ruthless and vicious pursuit of power to benefit oneself above anything else that really matters. If you consciously choose to support such behavior, how can you live with yourself????