From: Jason Jay Smart
Donald Trump just called Vladimir Putin “absolutely crazy” and warned he was “playing with fire.” But what looked like another dramatic media moment wasn’t chaos — it was strategy. In this video, political analyst Jason Jay Smart explains how the Kremlin responded with tactical silence, while Dmitry Medvedev issued yet another nuclear threat — all part of a larger communications operation inside Putin’s regime. 🔍 Inside the episode:
- Why Putin stayed silent — and what that tells us about Trump’s continued value to Moscow
- How Medvedev’s threats fit into a deliberate propaganda system
- Why Russian state media censored Trump’s insult — and aired Zelensky criticism instead
- The two-tier messaging machine that keeps Putin appearing calm while his proxies rage
- How dictators like Putin use staged madness to manipulate both foreign and domestic audiences
This isn’t about headlines. It’s about how power works behind closed doors — in Moscow, and beyond.
Voice of Ukraine 