I think he feels he can "give it back" to pootin, kick him while he's down. I think he resents how pootin lorded over him and, since he has leon's money bags, he doesn't need pootin anymore. And when he finds someone useless, he shits on them.

That might not bode well for him as I think he underestimates pootin's revenge.

And putting Russian troops in danger giving out classified info.
Putin is not going to be happy.

I have no idea what is going on. But it sure looks like Putin and Trump are two mob bosses
in a turf war.

Yes trump better watch his step.

so I can't link it, but a Putin goon responded to Trump's demand that Putin end the war.

The Putin goon talked about the controversial things that Trump has done so far and stated he better be careful he could get himself assassinated.

Exactly the response I expect. I'm sure there would be some here who would assist.

He's not going to complete this term and I think there is going to be a blow up of these clowns releasing all the kompromat they have on each other at some point. All in trying to overwhelm each other.

trump pulls numbers out of his ass.

and he is more likely to get intle from putin than from cia

The Ukrainian gov/military publicizes their Russian casualty tally (note: not deaths but casualties) and they aren't that high -- and they have an interest in counting/estimating high.

I think that number might be a bit low.

are not overwhelmingly-majority killed. So TCF is way, way off if he said 1M deaths. The actual deaths are more like 150K-200K (according to the BBC, via Wikipedia).

But I’d bet it’s a lot more than 150,000. I’d also bet that the number of Russian dead substantially exceeds the number of wounded. The Russian Army has never really given two fucks about casualties and you can look at WWI and WWII as examples. Ukraine is no different. Someone gets killed, next man up.

But the number of casualties or put out of action is much higher than 150K.