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Originally Posted by Maru

Possibly, but I don't think Trump is very good at keeping friends like this longterm. He likes appearing strong and having empathy isn't the way to achieve that in his opinion. He could give two ***** about Ukraine. It could very well be he is afraid of Russia or have links there. All could be true.

As for the US, I think we are falling back to older policies of world building and this is the ideal time, imo, to try. It is his second Presidency so when he is gone, he is gone, and so less investment there without a looming election. Wouldn't be surprised if some people are just burnt out from years of hysterics and are eagerly tuning out. We finally have a period where politics is not the first and last thing discussed so of all the times this could be happening, I think this is where we are most disengaged.

I'd like to know he is advising him but I don't think all this just comes out of thin air and he suddenly decides to start treating sovereign countries as his lego set. A lot of it sounds like it could be part of some defense dept wishlist, ie warhawks.

Sometimes the simple answers are the correct ones. Iceland is a big island. He can look at it on a map and say i added the big block to the USA. It may actually be that simple. Trump isn't blessed intellectually and is easily led by the person who spoke to him last