To be fair: Trump and his love for Putin. Russians themselves recommend medical care for him, but no rejuvenation treatment is planned
Understanding Donald Trump's thinking is beyond the capabilities of any sane person. The case with the purchase of Russian oil shows that the American president may commit one more absurd act after another, but he cannot circumvent the basic laws of their consequences.
When Trump confidently declared that he would end the conflict in Ukraine within 24 hours, a question arose in serious discussion: how would he do it? The answer was actually simple. If Ukraine lost the support of its Western allies led by the USA, then Russia could gain a major advantage and quickly subjugate Ukraine. The solution was on the table.
However, that was a question from before Trump's return to the White House, and the situation has changed since then. The Ukrainians have demonstrated incredible ingenuity in the art of war, and probably even if not a single bullet came to Ukraine from Europe and the USA anymore, the Ukrainians would manage to defend themselves with some clever strategy for many more months.
Trump's Last Man Who Called Him
Nevertheless, their state would sooner or later go completely bankrupt and Russia would finally be able to control it. Albeit with some form of guerrilla warfare at its back. If Trump had sided with Russia two years ago, the entire operation could have been faster. He only did it now, when European countries have intensified their support for Ukraine and the nature of the war there has shifted even more towards attrition tactics, therefore a quick end to the war is possible only and exclusively by the will of Vladimir Putin.
As is well known, he doesn't want to end the war until the Russian flag flies in Kyiv. He wants nothing other than total victory. Therefore, any discussion about a few kilometers of borders that Ukraine will give up solves nothing, since this discussion has also been going on for two years.
If Trump wanted to force Ukraine to capitulate, he should have done it earlier. If he wanted to destroy the Iranian regime, he should have attacked it before the bloody suppression of the protests there. We must look elsewhere for an explanation of the American president's actions. Not only in the fact that he is looking for ways to get out of the situation where his ill-conceived war in the Persian Gulf has raised gasoline and diesel prices.
One of the rules of Trump's presidency is that he repeats what the last person he spoke with on the phone told him. This time it was Putin, and so during the last phone call he ate out of his hand.
However, Trump can talk on the phone with European leaders who would gladly talk him out of supporting Putin's regime, so it's possible that the White House chief will turn around again. We've seen these major flip-flops many times before.
Trump is being recommended more cognitive tests
Trump's phone call with Putin has become an almost viral topic in the Russian media space. The reactions of commentators there are absolutely exuberant. The powerful American president, who had been so feared since the fall of the Soviet Union, is in Trump's rendition a ridiculous confused old man.
"I recommend Donald Trump undergo more cognitive tests than missile tests," one of the commentators on Rossija 1 mocks the American president's mental state in a discussion.
**embed:<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="cs" dir="ltr">That moment when Trump saves those who mock him. Russian state television mocks Trump for his deal with Putin and calls him a fool. Propagandist Skabeeva is confused by the oil deal, after all Russia itself is going through a major fuel crisis😁</p>— VěraČ 🇨🇿🍀🌞⭐️ (@VerulinkaM) <a href="https://x.com/VerulinkaM/status/2110043002081247679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> **
But we also know that what the Russians say at these propaganda shows is usually the exact opposite of reality. Or did they exceptionally let loose the reins of their honesty?
In the meantime, images came again from Ukraine of Russian bombardment of women and children living peacefully in their cities. Ukrainian air defense this time remained at a disadvantage, as the Americans did not pass on their intelligence data to them. However, President Trump stated that he is helping Ukraine and sharing this information with them, as CNN reminded.
Does the American president still know what he's doing? Most likely not. Solutions are starting to emerge in the public space.
"Who to give voting rights to and who to take them away from, so that it at least functions in an elementary way," evolutionary biologist Jan Zrzavý delved into the controversial topic in the Čestmír podcast.
According to his interpretation, restrictions could be imposed from both sides. Not only for the youngest, but also for the oldest, meaning people would lose their voting rights 18 years before death according to demographic data. The population is aging and elderly voters will become an increasingly important source of political decision-making, while younger ones will have to pay more and more for their pensions. In this equation, one side will be very dissatisfied.
Removing active suffrage from people who have traditionally had it would certainly be a departure from democracy. But what about passive suffrage (the right to be elected)? The whole charade with the senile Trump, who obviously has no idea what he's doing, would be resolved, and as a bonus we wouldn't have to watch a similarly desperate prelude performed by Joe Biden. Dozing off in the mayoral office after eighty has also become one of the most frequently commented topics of the concluded municipal elections.
In the end, it would only affect a few people, just as some professions are no longer practiced at an advanced age, so the political craft would not be practiced either. However, in this theater, we will likely have to get used to older faces of actors. The repertoire will be correspondingly tragicomic.
Sources: author's text, commentary, X, CNN, idnes.cz
