slowly assimilating into a Russian bot

Absolutely.

First of all, it is not self-evident that being tough on Russia is preferable, and it is not clear to which degree that's true.

It was a forced response from Trump due to the Russia Collusion Hoax narrative. It's possible that the relations are actually quite good, and preferable to that of the Kleptocrat party, who may or may not be insane at times.

But you could be right of course, and Putin plays reverse psychology to assist Biden.

I think however that the Marxist left and the rather Nationalist Russia are ideologically not compatible, and that the deep state will seek to have new enemies.

putin is ok with being tough

in fact it is the only way to get respect from russians

no soy allowed in mother russia

Hungary and Slovenia say the election is not over. They stand with Trump, and so do I, as a Hungarian-German. I am proud to have Orban not cucking in to the Kleptocrats like the rest of the Euro-Faggots.

Germany as usual a total disgrace.

netanjahy failed us

This. also ciaramella was traitor

If you look at Russian actions over the last 20 years you’ll see that they’re always trying to increase integration with the west. It’s just that they keep getting rejected because they aren’t a deep state vassal.

Russia hates China so this seems pretty likely.

You also need to look at the realistic alternatives, i.e. who else could have been running Russia, and what they would have done. And I do think Putin looks at it this way. He does some awful things to stay in power and keep Russia relatively wealthy. He has also seen much more awful things done in the Soviet Union, many more people killed and ruthlessly oppressed, and in the end the killers/oppressors had nothing of value to show for it, just a collapsing economy and nation, and knows he's doing much better than his predecessors.

And I think he looks at the US, which has gone further and further into extreme protection of individual rights and coddling of illegal immigrants, as demanded by the left and tolerated by the spineless right, and sees that what we've ended up with is a country being controlled by violent rioters, nonexistent election integrity, every productive person in the country being turned into a slave via taxation which funds leftist indoctrination centers where there used to be actual schools and colleges and oppressive government regulation of virtually everything, parents being bankrupted in custody battles over what sex their child actually is (while their child is subjected to horrific and orreversible medical "treatments", which are starting to be reminiscent of Hitler's pal Dr. Mengele), and so on. We may actually be on the brink of civil war and who knows how many might die in that scenario.

I think Putin is hard-hearted enough to simply do the math re the body counts of alternative courses of political/military action, and go with the one that has a lower estimated body count, even if only slightly lower, and of course giving extra weight to Russian bodies, because he's the President of Russia, not President of the world. And I think he looks at all the types of dead bodies pretty equally -- killed by military action, killed by cold and starvation resulting from political action (I'm sure his mother filled him in on the harsh realities of that), killed by alcohol poisoning resulting from endless despair, etc.

I wish the world was different, in a way that wouldn't require an honest assessment of someone who operates the way Putin does, as a not-so-bad person. But it isn't different. He's not a monster, like Stalin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, or the Kims of North Korea, or even a ruthless oppressor like Xi Jinping. And he's not a completely self-absorbed tyrant, like Saddam Hussein, Qaddafi, and that ilk. And Russia could do a lot, lot worse for a leader, as its history has made painfully clear (and likewise, Russia's neighbors could do a lot, lot worse for a Russian leader).