If Putin Falls, Does Trump Go With Him?
- john raymond
- Jun 30
- 2 min read
Here is the deal: we already know Trump is a Russian asset. That’s not speculation—it’s a fact grounded in years of financial, political, and behavioral evidence. Like evolution, the case does not rest on a single moment or quote, but on an overwhelming preponderance of aligned facts, relationships, betrayals, and patterns.
From the Helsinki humiliation to the classified documents scandal, from Manafort’s handoff to Russian agents to Trump’s own words praising Putin and undermining NATO, the conclusion is obvious: Trump serves Putin’s goals. Full stop.
So when we see Vladimir Putin forced to contract his defense spending, when we hear Russian central bankers and economic ministers admitting their coffers are dry, we are not merely witnessing Russia’s decline—we are watching Trump’s security architecture erode. And that makes this moment dangerous.
The real question isn’t whether Putin is in retreat. He is. The real question is: what will Trump do about it?
Does Trump try to distance himself from the collapsing regime in Moscow? Does he pretend he was never that close? Or does he redouble his efforts to protect the man whose survival may now be intertwined with his own?
Because if Trump believes that Putin’s fall means his own unmasking—if he calculates that a defeated Putin might leak, confess, or otherwise become a liability—then he has every incentive to escalate, deflect, or sabotage any policy that tightens the noose around the Kremlin.
This is not conjecture. We already see signs of it: his resistance to Ukraine aid, his delay tactics on sanctions, his praise for Orban and flirtations with ending NATO. These are not the actions of a leader with a clean conscience. They are the behaviors of a compromised man trying to keep a sinking ship afloat—not because he loves Putin, but because he cannot politically survive Putin’s fall.
And that, precisely, is why we must be so vigilant now. The next phase of this war will not just be fought in Kharkiv or Donbas. It will be waged in Washington, in Congress, in the courts, and on the airwaves. It will be a war of narratives, sabotage, and last-ditch power grabs.
Because when a cornered autocrat knows his safety depends on the survival of another, he will burn every bridge, lie to every ally, and betray every citizen to keep the truth from emerging.
So don't ask yourself: If Putin falls, does Trump go with him?
But ask yourself: What will Trump do to stop that from happening?
Because that’s likely what comes next.
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