You can't make this shit up...

Offered without preamble, from Business Insider:

Former US President Donald Trump, who was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine, said the country's current crisis "would never have happened" if he were still in office.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine early Thursday, with Russian troops swarming into the country from its northern, eastern, and southern borders. [...] Trump released a statement Thursday, saying, "If I were in Office, this deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened!"

Trump earlier this week praised Putin's justification for invading Ukraine as "genius" and "savvy."

"I went in yesterday, and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful," Trump said when asked about the news. "I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper."

Once again, for the record, nobody was fooled by Putin's "peacekeeping" rationalization for invading the Ukraine; even people in Russia saw through that one. Not Trump, though; he still stans Putin, and is determined to be Putin's useful idiot to the end.

Good for them!

Just yesterday, pundits were wondering whether the Russian people would have or express any real opinions on Putin's latest escalation of the invasion of Ukraine, given how oppressive Putin's regime has been, and how brutally dissenters are often treated. Some pundits were asking what the Russian people would even hear about the invasion, before or after it was underway, given how tightly controlled news media (and, hell, all media) outlets are inside Russia.

Well, that was yesterday, and this is today, and it seems we have our answer.

As reported by CBC News:

Shocked Russians turned out by the thousands Thursday to decry their country's invasion of Ukraine as emotional calls for protests grew on social media.

Around 1,745 people in 54 Russian cities were detained, at least 957 of them in Moscow, according to OVD-Info, which has documented crackdowns on Russia's opposition for years.

Hundreds of posts came pouring in condemning Moscow's most aggressive actions since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

[...]

Tatyana Usmanova, an opposition activist in Moscow, wrote on Facebook that she thought she was dreaming when she awoke at 5:30 a.m. to the news, which she called "a disgrace that will be forever with us now."

"I want to ask Ukrainians for forgiveness. We didn't vote for those who unleashed the war," she said.

Good for them.