40% is an extremely low approval rating in a two-party electoral college system like the US.

In the US, each election is only really decided by 10% of non-partisan Americans, who live in the swing states.

90% of other votes don’t matter, because those are permanently blue or permanently red states, and they cancel each other out.

So for Trump to lose 10% of Americans would mean to lose 100% of people who decide election outcomes.

Even if Russia attacks NATO, umm…what will Putin get out of it?

Return on investment. Russia hasn’t switched to war economy for nothing. War economy is unsustainable unless you invade and pillage rich countries, and Ukraine isn’t one

This is ridiculously meaningless diplomatic statement.

If they actually didn’t like the terms of the EU, they would stop exporting to the EU. Otherwise it’s just theatrics.