Originally Posted by
Exocet
Im pissed off that he gave Putin exactly what he wanted and has always wanted..to be seen as equals..giving him a SUMMIT implies Russia is a superpower, people were treating this meeting as if it were of equals as if it were the 1987 Gorbachev Reagan meeting.
I did not agree with calling the meeting with Kim Jong Un a summit either.
Russia has a smaller economy than Italy, capital flight out of the country is huge they have a low birth rate and the amount of people leaving the country is a massive problem. it spent less on its military last year than UK or France.
I agree the meeting is big as the amount of toxic shit that has gone down between the two countries since the last ' summit' is immense. ive never seen them this bad, and there are a LOT of issues to resolve. but yeah ive never for a second bought into this Russian might bullshit. the US is offering to supply Europe with energy anyway.
the one exception is regards to its Nuclear stockpile, it has an immense nuclear stockpile, that is the one thing that misleads people into thinking its something its not.
its just behaved like a dick the past few years, but its out of an immense inferiority complex and sense of loss that Is why it has been behaving this way, its mostly going to backfire, Putin is the one who will go down as having truly lost Ukraine after hundreds of years.