Putin’s recent actions, and Trump’s, fit the usual pattern: bad leaders nearly always get worse. They get worse in four phases, each more ominous and compounding than the one before. The progression usually starts slowly — perceptible, perhaps, but unremarkable. Then it picks up steam. Finally, if leaders are left to their own devices, their bad behaviors metamorphose from insignificant to significant, and finally to malignant and malevolent.
Do they really like him though? Or do they just find him a useful idiot while also agreeing with everyone else that he’s a delusional asshole?
It’s hard to tell for sure, but Kim Jong Un’s letters to Donald Trump read like something out of a Hallmark romance movie.