Scoop — Zelensky to Trump: Putin pretends to want peace because he's "afraid of you"

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• legolas@fedit.pl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Im not sure about the logic of the implication here. What “pretending” has to do with being afraid of somebody?

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When people are afraid of other people, they often pretend to want the thing that the person who they are afraid of want they to want. In this case the implication is that Putin wants to keep the war going, but Putin is pretending to want peace because “Putin is afraid of Trump”. The idea is to stroke Trump’s ego while also diminishing Putin’s influence because Trump only respects ‘tough guys’.

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    • legolas@fedit.pl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “When people are afraid of other people, they often pretend to want the thing that the person who they are afraid of want they to want” - first time hearing this. More examples?

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