WaPo’s Rogin: Trump’s Tone on Putin Has Changed, But His Actions Haven’t

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ROGIN: “Right. I think you’re exactly right, Boris. The bottom line is that President Trump’s tone has changed, but his actions haven’t and the Russians know that. We saw the Kremlin respond to Trump’s latest statements by saying that Trump was emotionally overloaded. In other words, they’re not taking this latest Truth Social post very seriously because they haven’t seen any real action to back up the idea that President Trump would put any additional pressure on Vladimir Putin. And until they do, they just think he’s just spouting off on social media, and what else are they supposed to think? So, sure, it may give Chuck Grassley the permission to say something mean about Putin, but President Trump has to make a decision. Either he is going to increase the pressure on Russia and Putin, or he’s going to extricate the United States from the war, which will mean that Putin can do whatever he wants and Ukrainians will suffer. And just putting posts on Truth Social saying that Putin is crazy, he is not going to move the needle one way or the other.”