Who was wrong about a desperate dictator - morally, patriotically, and factually - as he began a military operation designed to destroy a fledgling democracy by bringing it to heel with atrocities against civilians.

Trump, and others seeking the presidency in the trumpublican party, like Pompeo, responded to the start of the invasion by lauding the rogue dictator’s superior intellect and slamming the leadership of the global alliance opposing it. That stance is morally and patriotically bankrupt.

And given that Putin got literally everything wrong - his military’s capabilities, Ukrainian resolve, the rock solid unity of global democracies opposed to it, and his own support domestically - all the Trumpistani Putin admiration was tragically factually inaccurate.

Putin’s become a fool, and a very dangerous one. But rather than criticize the American leaders expressing surreal, truly unAmerican admiration for him, JM starts a thread with a lame-ass TDS one liner.

Completely blind to the fact that all the derangement is his own.