This comes as it's now being reported that Putin is escalating the war against Ukraine, and that he's brushing aside Trump's anger about it.
"President Donald Trump seems to have learned the lesson painfully gleaned by all his 21st-century predecessors: You can't reset US relations with Vladimir Putin," writes Stephen Collinson. | Analysis cnn.it/44EsrKb
-- CNN (@cnn.com) Jul 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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... and that he's brushing aside Trump's anger about it. ...
Nah.
What Pres Putin is doing about Pres Trump's comments seems to be Pres Putin saying that those comments are an admission of weakness by Pres trump in standing up to Pres Putin.
That aspect seems to be how Pres Putin has played Pres Trump from the beginning.
In spite of the lame (I'm being kind) video recently released by Sec Hegseth[1] about US military strength, Pres Trump seems to be bowing down to Pres Putin.
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1 - Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video ( www.theregister.com )
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