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Well one's a democratically elected and broadly reasonable ally, and the other's a dictator-for-life who's practically had The Idiot kiss his feet on television. I will not spend one instant humoring any dingus who goes 'hurr hurr which is which.'
If you can't figure out whether anyone can trust Vladimir god damn Putin, you have my sincere pity.
I am not saying if you can trust him, he has motives, I am saying it is redicuolously fool hearty to assume that because he said something that instantly means he wants the oposit. Do I think he has an agenda yes, do I think that his agenda and the agenda of the United States are aligned no, but that does not mean he is going to go "You know what I will wake up to day and play reverse phycology because everyone in America is a moron" The thing we do here is he said X, what would be the reasons for his statement of X. It is unlikely his lie would be that he wants Biden when he wants trump, I could see the lie being he does not care but he thinks by saying he wants Biden it will cause an ease in relations but that is unlikely. What I think is more likely is that, and I know I will be called a "Russian Bot" or a "Republican" for this dispite the fact I am nither, is that while Domesticly the better choice we have is Biden, it is in Russia's better intersest that Biden is elected aswell, the USA is more stable under biden, and I could easily see him lieing about the mental stability of Biden, as this is a comon refrain from people in washington, but we never see it when he is talking to the public nor is it reflected in the Special Investigators Report. So taking the person who is mentaly deteriorating, and is less likely to spill everything and say the first thing that comes to their mind, therefor pulling the nation back and forth at their every wim, would be a perk for russia, who is just now starting to emerge again as a high regional power maybe entering into great power, and it would be far more dangerous for them to have a loose cannon of a USA.