putin is not a loser and i don't really care too much one way or another about his policies and bullshit tbqh. his geopoliticking is not much different than how someone like bush sr. rumsfeld or cheney approached politics tbqh.  however, from the perspective of just a normal person... he is a party man, an ex glowie, a bureacrat of sorts, he plays "technical" politics. and yes he plays them at a high level but he is just a run of the mill "default" style politician.  trump is a world class demogogue. a populist rabble rouser. he practices a dark lost art that party men like putin could never even contemplate. there is no rule book it is just like an art or a "touch" that he has. cult of personality, agitation, the mob, etc. putin is thinking about geopolitics and all sort of gay shit and trump is just out there "working" the mob. they are on two totally opposite ends of the spectrum.
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