Brutkey

emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Literally everyone is responding to this with such naivete.

It's not the pee tape (and never was). It's not Epstein.

Putin has used Trump to destroy every aspect of the United States that he loathed: rule of law, free market, human rights.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lwcey5mv722b

emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

And I apologize: I've been struggling with conveying all this all week. I didn't get all the way there.

But this negotiation on Friday isn't about Ukraine. Ukraine is the dangle Putin used to get to Trump, and that's been true for a decade.