There Is Only One U.S. Leader Putin Actually Fears; Putin ‘knew not to mess around with me,’ Trump says as Ukraine war began under Biden: ‘Did they fear me? I suspect they did’

There Is Only One U.S. Leader Putin Actually Fears:

Trump has already established a reputation with Putin that he is not to be messed with and won’t shy away from a battle with the Kremlin

Last weekend, in an unprecedented move, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he will deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, Russia’s closest ally.

Moscow’s move is likely designed to hold more European targets at risk of a nuclear strike amid the conflict in Ukraine, which has entered its second year. A day later, Putin’s ally and Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned that Russia has “modern unique weapons capable of destroying any adversary, including the United States.” The next day, Russia, which placed its nuclear forces on a heightened alert at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine, fired several nuclear-capable, anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan during a simulated attack.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., which has been fighting a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine, the media are already pushing voters to concern themselves with the presidential election that is still a year and a half away. Between the two expected front-runners for the GOP nomination, former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has yet to announce if he will run for president), one has an extensive track record on Russia, while the other can’t offer those same assurances.

Having spent my intelligence career studying Russian war-fighting doctrine and Putin’s mindset, I am confident Trump is the one U.S. leader Putin fears. He has already established a reputation with Putin that he is not to be messed with and won’t shy away from a “mano-a-mano” battle with the Kremlin’s assassin.

Despite the false narrative spread by the U.S. spy agencies and media, Trump was no friend of Putin’s. The 45th president is the only U.S. commander-in-chief during whose presidency Putin didn’t invade any country. Here are five reasons why the cold-blooded “former” KGB operative feared the brash real-estate mogul from New York.

First, in December 2019, President Trump stood up the first entirely new armed service since 1947, the U.S. Space Force. It was a direct counter to Russia’s space warfare doctrine. Trump understood that the Russians, who formed their space force in 2001, view U.S. reliance on space as an Achilles heel, a strategic vulnerability. Every aspect of U.S. warfighting doctrine is reliant on satellites — missile warning, navigation, reconnaissance, targeting, command-and-control, and precision strike efforts. Putin gave Russia’s space troops the mission to “blind and deafen” U.S. forces by attacking our satellites in wartime. —>READ MORE HERE

Putin ‘knew not to mess around with me,’ Trump says as Ukraine war began under Biden:

‘Did they fear me? I suspect they did’

Former President Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had an amicable yet stern relationship, recounting he warned the ex-KGB agent not to invade Ukraine.

Trump told “Hannity” he does not like to boast about such things, but underlined Putin seemingly understood not to invade another sovereign country while he was president of the United States.

“Putin would have never gone into Ukraine. I used to talk to him about it – I said ‘better not do it’. And he wouldn’t have – we had a very friendly conversation about it: I said, ‘Hey, Vladimir, you can’t go into Ukraine.”

While Putin executed his invasion after President Biden took office, “Hannity” host Sean Hannity asked Trump why he claims “with such conviction” that the Russian strongman would have backed down if he had been reelected.

“Because he knew not to mess around with me,” Trump said, before footnoting “I don’t want to say that.”

“You know why? Because you’d say – Oh – I don’t like people who say ‘oh, they fear me’ like a schmuck. I don’t want to say it, but did they fear me? I suspect they did.” —>READ MORE HERE

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