Brandon J. Weichert
For nearly a decade, President Donald Trump’s domestic enemies have spread the word that he is little more than a Russian dupe—who admires Vladimir Putin and seeks to emulate his style of leadership, if not take orders from him directly. These claims have never had much to support them. Yet they continue to circulate, likely because they have a grain of truth at their center. Trump does respect Putin’s strength. He has treated the Russian president as the leader of a great power, rather than a pariah—a state of affairs intolerable to those who would rather imagine Putin on trial at the Hague.
Nevertheless, claims that Trump is “soft” on Putin miss the mark. The 47th president has pursued a very significant strategy of weakening the economic pillar that has been propping up the Russian Federation’s war machine for the last few years, as it moves with brute force into neighboring Ukraine.
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