Who benefits from Donald Trump's revenge diplomacy? Putin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : He's played Trump perfectly from the moment he met him and his efforts are bearing fruit.
65% : But his unhinged behavior toward Zelenskyy in that White House meeting on Friday was nothing less than a verbal beat down staged for the media, as Trump more or less admitted at the end when he said "this is going to be great television.
65% : Trump and Vice President JD Vance obviously had other plans.
38% : He also rudely chastised the governor of Maine in a room full of other governors over her decision to follow state and federal law relating to transgender citizens and anti-discrimination protections.
37% : The question is whether they are going to go along with Trump and his minions throwing their weight around at NATO, the G7 or the G20 anymore.
35% : Trump has always had a short temper, but since he's been back in the White House he's been lashing out in public more aggressively than in the past and it's most often when someone fails to show what he deems to be proper deference.
35% : He hoped to convince Trump that he needs some kind of security guarantee with any peace deal or cease fire because the thuggish war criminal Putin can't be trusted to keep his word so Ukraine would be a sitting duck.
31% : Forcing Ukraine to surrender because Trump has withdrawn his "cards" isn't really an option for them.
28% : Putin is knocking on their door and unlike Trump they know what he is
26% : " The meeting began normally enough despite the fact that Trump had been insulting Zelenskyy nonstop for days, calling him a dictator and daftly claiming that Ukraine had started the war.
23% : If Europe is unable to fully support Ukraine and Russia finally overruns Ukraine and commits more atrocities like they did in places like Bucha, Trump and his henchmen will simply say that Zelenskyy was asking for it.
22% : Trump now hands out a red hat that says "Trump was right about everything" and as long as he can blame someone else for the carnage he creates the people around him are willing to let him believe it.
20% : As he has pretty much been insisting from the day Putin invaded and Trump called it a "genius" and "savvy" move, Trump clearly believes Putin is entitled to take what he wants and that America supplying Ukraine with arms to fight him is a waste of money and a waste of time.
20% : This is all theatre and that weird meeting was clearly a set-up to give Trump the excuse he needs to withdraw completely.
19% : Trump then entered the chat to berate Zelenskyy for saying that the U.S. would be affected by Putin's aggression, screaming in his face like a drunk real housewife, "don't tell us how to feel!
16% : Nevertheless, Zelenskyy gamely flew to Washington on the heels of earlier visits by the French and UK leaders trying to calm Trump down, agreeing to the "minerals deal" (or the "raw earth," as Trump insanely refers to them).
7% : Trump may stupidly think that he and Putin have a bond but Putin thinks Trump is a joke.

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