In the five days since being elected the 47th president of the United States, President-elect Donald Trump has been busy making his rounds, and it’s reported that he has already spoken with 70 world leaders. Among those leaders, he has notably spoken with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Now, he has reportedly also spoken with Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin.
In the call, Trump reportedly reminded Putin of the strength of America. The president-elect’s persona itself doesn’t need words to convey the message that the soft politics game that Biden played is now over:
During the call, which Trump took from his resort in Florida, he advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in…
