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Trump Deleted the Post — Then Resurrected It. But the Putin Protection Plan Is Already in Motion.
Trump’s reverence for Putin wasn’t the main event. The real story is Europe’s financial muscle, artillery factories, and a Starlink deal that Musk can’t walk away from.
When I posted Donald Trump’s Truth Social post yesterday — the one where he expressed quiet reverence for Putin and effectively gave him the green light to retaliate for Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb — my readers were unanimous.
Donald Trump didn’t write it.
I missed it at first. Too busy reading between the lines, behind the lines — so much so that I missed the forest staring straight at me. But my readers caught it instantly. The post was way too clean. Too polished. Not his voice. But whoever wrote it had access — and Trump’s permission to publish.
That one post delivered every wrong signal at once. It didn’t feel like Trump was floating his usual Putin protection plan. It felt like he was executing it.
Just a day earlier, Dmitry Medvedev openly called for the total destruction of Ukraine. Russian state media had spent the week mocking Trump — especially in the lead-up to Operation Spiderweb. Medvedev…