The majority of the world understood Trump's type of diplomatic "norms", because those are the same norms they operate under. They may not have liked him; but they respected him. It's only certain people in the west who thought otherwise.
Putin never would have challenged Trump to a debate because Trump would have agreed to it and pushed for it even harder. But he knows Biden will never can't do it.
remember how former state employees used to bitch and moan that prez maga had destroyed diplomatic norms? i remember!
The majority of the world understood Trump's type of diplomatic "norms", because those are the same norms they operate under. They may not have liked him; but they respected him. It's only certain people in the west who thought otherwise.
Putin never would have challenged Trump to a debate because Trump would have agreed to it and pushed for it even harder. But he knows Biden will never can't do it.