Would Putin Have Invaded Ukraine If Trump Was Still President?

Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation on the recognition of independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics  

Daily Mail: 62% of Americans think Putin WOULDN'T have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president, poll claims - and 59% say Biden's weakness made Russia decide to declare war 

* A recent survey revealed that 62 percent of Americans polled felt that Putin would not invade Ukraine if Trump was still in office 

* A total of 38 percent of Democrats agreed that Trump would have held Putin back, with a whopping 85 percent of GOP voters agreeing 

* A total of 38 percent of Americans, regardless of political affiliation, believed that Putin would have invaded Ukraine regardless of who was president 

* Another 59 percent of Americans polled believed that the Russian president moved on it's neighboring country because Putin saw weakness in Biden 

* Another 41 percent said that the person sitting in office did not play not a factor in Putin's decision to invade Ukraine 

* The survey, which was conducted between February 23 and 24, included 2,026 registered voters 

Close to two thirds of Americans believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump were still president, according to a new survey released Friday. 

A recent Harvard Center for American Political Studies-Harris Poll survey revealed that 62 percent of those Americans polled felt that Putin would not be launching an offense against Ukraine if Trump, rather than incumbent President Joe Biden, was still in office. 

Broken down, 39 percent of Democrats and 85 percent of Republicans believe that Trump would have made Putin think twice about launching the war. 

Meanwhile, 59 percent of Americans said it was Biden's perceived weakness that had prompted Putin to launch the bold attack in the first place, The Hill reported of the survey.  

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WNU Editor: After Trump met Putin in Helsinki there was a story on Russian media that Trump told Putin that should he invade Ukraine he would bomb Moscow. At the time I chalked this up as typical Russian state media propaganda painting Trump as a warmonger. A few days ago I learned that Trump did say that. I do not know if Putin took Trump's remarks in Helsinki seriously or not, but I do know that Ukraine was not a crisis that exploded into an all out war under Trump. 

I think the person who had the most influence on Putin was the former German Chancellor Merkel. She defused many a crisis with Putin, and they trusted each other to make sure certain crisis did not get out of hand. My gut tells me that she would have capitalized on her relationship with Putin to make sure that this invasion and war did not take place.

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