Trump’s Pattern of Betrayal Part Four: The Hacking of Donald Trump
How the Kremlin Groomed an American President—And Why Ukraine Pays the Price
The Psychology of Betrayal: Why Trump Picks Putin Over Ukraine

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Before we reach the final accounting, we must understand the psychological machinery that makes Trump’s betrayal not just possible but inevitable. This isn’t about kompromat hidden in Kremlin vaults or sophisticated intelligence operations. It’s far simpler and far more dangerous: Trump’s transactional psychology makes him pathologically susceptible to flattery, and the Kremlin has mastered this vulnerability with surgical precision.
This is social engineering at the geopolitical level—the patient grooming of an American president through the systematic exploitation of his ego. And the tragic reality is that everyone now understands how to play this game.
The “Big Boat, Little Boat” Delusion
Trump views geopolitics through a catastrophically distorted lens where size equals strength, and strength demands deference. Russia is a “big boat”—large territory, nuclear arsenal, permanent UN Security Council seat. Therefore, Russia matters. Ukraine is a “little boat”—smaller population, smaller military, dependent on aid. Therefore, Ukraine is disposable.
This worldview is not just wrong—it’s the opposite of strategic reality in modern conflict.
Ukraine has demonstrated a form of strength that is categorically superior to Russia’s bloated death machine:
- Russia throws conscripts into meat grinder assaults, suffering catastrophic casualties for minimal gains
- Ukraine innovates domestically-produced long-range drones that strike 2,100 kilometers deep into Russia
- Russia struggles to maintain basic logistics and ammunition supply
- Ukraine systematically dismantles 38% of Russian refining capacity with precision drone campaigns
- Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, once regionally dominant, has been functionally destroyed—by a nation without a significant navy
- Ukraine has proven that innovation, adaptability, and motivated defenders defeat raw numbers and resources
This is David defeating Goliath in real-time, using intelligence over mass, precision over volume, innovation over legacy systems.
But Trump cannot process this reality. His binary winner-loser framework demands that bigger equals better, that territorial size correlates with strength, that the nation with more resources must be winning. Ukraine’s strategic successes—objectively documented, militarily transformative—simply do not register because they contradict his predetermined hierarchy.
In Trump’s psychology, Russia deserves respect because it’s big. Ukraine deserves contempt because it’s small. The actual battlefield results, the strategic innovations, the relative effectiveness of each military—all irrelevant. He has sorted the world into big boats and little boats, and no amount of evidence will convince him that little boats can outmaneuver big ones.
This aligns perfectly with Russian imperial ideology—the notion of “Malorussia” (Little Russia), the belief that Ukrainian independence is an aberration to be corrected through force. When Trump insults Zelenskyy as insignificant compared to Putin, he’s not just being personally offensive—he’s adopting the conceptual framework that justifies Russian genocide.
The Flattery Mechanism: How Putin Groomed Trump’s Ego
Here’s what makes Trump uniquely dangerous: he doesn’t require kompromat, because his ego is the kompromat. The Kremlin has understood this from the beginning. Putin doesn’t need to blackmail Trump—he just needs to praise him.
And it works. Repeatedly. Consistently. Across years and circumstances.
The Pattern of Flattery-Induced Policy Shifts
The Kremlin pioneered this approach, but others have learned the playbook:
North Korea: Trump went from threatening “fire and fury” to declaring “we fell in love” after Kim Jong Un sent him flattering letters. No policy concessions from North Korea. No denuclearization progress. Just personal flattery, and Trump’s entire approach transformed. Kim called Trump strong, smart, a great leader—and Trump’s response was to legitimize a totalitarian regime and suspend joint military exercises with South Korea.
Turkey/Syria Kurds: After a single phone call with Erdoğan in October 2019, where Erdoğan reportedly flattered Trump and pushed for U.S. withdrawal from Syria, Trump abruptly announced the pullout. This betrayed Kurdish allies who had been America’s most effective partners against ISIS, leading directly to Turkish military operations against them. Trump’s own advisors were blindsided—but Erdoğan had delivered the praise Trump craved.
China Trade: Trump’s position on China shifted dramatically based on personal treatment by Xi Jinping. After the April 2017 Mar-a-Lago summit, where Xi reportedly showed Trump great deference and respect, Trump praised Xi as “a very good man” and softened his trade rhetoric. Later, when personal flattery decreased, Trump’s position hardened again—not based on policy analysis but on how respected he felt.
Saudi Arabia: Despite the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and journalist, Trump defended Mohammed bin Salman and refused to hold Saudi Arabia accountable. Why? Saudi leaders had showered Trump with attention during his visit—elaborate ceremonies, military displays, the glowing orb photo op. They treated him like royalty, and Trump responded by overlooking murder.
The United Kingdom: Even King Charles III understands the game now. During Trump’s state visits and interactions with the British monarchy, the elaborate pageantry, the formal ceremonies, the treatment as visiting head of state—all carefully calibrated to provide the validation Trump craves. The UK has learned that maintaining the special relationship requires managing Trump’s ego as much as negotiating policy. Everyone knows how to play “The Donald” now.
Russia, Constantly and Most Effectively: Putin’s flattery of Trump has been systematic and sustained. Putin has called Trump:
- “Talented”
- “Colorful”
- “Bright”
- “Absolute frontrunner”
- Smart and experienced
Every time Putin praises Trump, Trump’s position on Russia softens. Every time. This isn’t speculation—it’s documented pattern behavior across multiple years.
Putin didn’t just discover this vulnerability—he cultivated it. Through patient, consistent validation, Putin has groomed Trump to see the world through Russian perspectives, to adopt Russian talking points, to prioritize Russian interests. This is social engineering on a geopolitical scale: the systematic conditioning of an American president through ego gratification.
The Current Flattery Campaign: Learning the Lesson
Ukraine and its allies are now desperately trying to apply what Russia has long understood: Trump’s policy positions are available to whoever flatters him most effectively.
Ukraine’s Approach: After the February 2025 Oval Office humiliation, Ukrainian officials began emphasizing:
- Trump’s “strong leadership” and “dealmaking genius”
- Ukraine’s gratitude for American support “under President Trump’s decisive leadership”
- Framing Ukrainian victories as validating Trump’s strategy
- Carefully avoiding any public disagreement that Trump might perceive as disrespect
The United Kingdom’s Approach: The UK has reportedly:
- Emphasized the “special relationship” with explicit praise for Trump personally
- Highlighted how Trump’s leadership strengthens transatlantic cooperation
- Avoided public criticism of Trump’s Ukraine positions
- Worked through back channels to frame continued Ukraine support as a “Trump legacy win”
European Leaders Generally: Multiple European officials have adopted language that:
- Credits Trump for “forcing Europe to take defense seriously”
- Praises his “transactional clarity”
- Frames increased European defense spending as responding to Trump’s “important call to action”
- Carefully positions policy advocacy in terms of Trump’s interests and legacy
Poland’s Strategy: Polish officials have been particularly adept, emphasizing:
- How Poland meets NATO spending requirements (Trump’s key metric)
- Poland’s purchase of American weapons systems (direct economic benefit Trump values)
- Polish-American cooperation as a model Trump should champion
- Explicit praise for Trump’s “strength” compared to previous administrations
The Desperation Behind the Flattery: Here’s what makes this tragic—these are serious leaders of democratic nations, facing existential threats, who have been reduced to managing the ego of an American president because that ego is now the primary determinant of American foreign policy.
They’re not engaging in diplomatic courtesy. They’re not showing respect for the office. They’re engaging in psychological manipulation of a personality so fragile, so dependent on constant validation, that entire national security strategies must be built around avoiding his displeasure and securing his approval.
And it’s working—partially. When European leaders successfully flatter Trump, aid packages move forward. When they fail to adequately praise him, support stalls. When Zelenskyy pushed back against Trump’s false claims, Trump retaliated with public humiliation. The lesson is clear and degrading: substantive policy doesn’t matter, strategic interests are secondary, and American power is available to whoever makes Trump feel important.
Why This Is More Dangerous Than Kompromat
If Trump were compromised by traditional intelligence operations—recordings, financial crimes, documented corruption—that would be dangerous but knowable. Intelligence agencies could potentially counter it. Congress could investigate. The vulnerability would have limits.
But Trump’s ego vulnerability is unlimited and unfixable:
1. It Cannot Be Secured Against: You can’t encrypt ego. You can’t compartmentalize narcissism. Putin doesn’t need to break into Trump’s communications—he just needs to call Trump smart, and Trump will take Putin’s side against American intelligence agencies.
2. It Cannot Be Counteracted: American officials cannot offer Trump more flattery than Putin because they must also occasionally tell him things he doesn’t want to hear. Putin has no such constraint—he can praise Trump endlessly because he has no responsibility for American interests or governance.
3. It Requires No Evidence: Kompromat requires maintaining evidence and threatening exposure. Flattery requires only words. Putin can manipulate Trump with a phone call, a public statement, or even just the absence of criticism when others are critical.
4. It’s Self-Reinforcing: Every time Trump adopts pro-Russian positions based on Putin’s flattery, he becomes more invested in defending those positions. His ego cannot admit he was manipulated, so he doubles down, finding new rationalizations for why his pro-Putin stance was correct all along.
5. It’s Publicly Observable But Unfalsifiable: We can all see Trump’s policy shifting based on who flatters him most recently. But Trump will never admit this, and his supporters will never accept it, because doing so would require acknowledging that their leader’s ego is a national security vulnerability.
6. Everyone Now Knows the Game: From King Charles organizing state pageantry to Kim Jong Un penning love letters to European leaders carefully framing every request in terms of Trump’s genius—the entire international community has learned that American foreign policy runs on ego gratification. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s collective management of a personality disorder that happens to control the world’s most powerful military.
The Winner-Picker Paradox
Trump desperately wants to back winners. It’s core to his identity—he’s the guy who knows how to pick winners, how to spot strength, how to identify who matters. His entire business brand was built on this image.
Here’s the paradox that could change everything: Ukraine is objectively winning the economic and strategic war, but Trump cannot see it because he has already decided Ukraine is a loser based on size differential.
Let’s be explicit about Ukrainian achievements Trump refuses to acknowledge:
Economic Warfare Dominance:
- 38% of Russian refining capacity offline
- Systematic targeting that has hit 25 of Russia’s approximately 38 major refineries
- Strikes reaching 2,100 kilometers deep—demonstrating longer effective range than Russia can achieve against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Forced Russia to impose fuel export bans
- Created gasoline shortages in Crimea and Siberia
- Cost Russia hundreds of millions in damage and lost revenue
Military Innovation:
- Domestically produced long-range drones that bypass Western restrictions
- Naval drone warfare that destroyed or damaged much of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet without Ukraine having a significant navy
- Electronic warfare capabilities that repeatedly disrupted Russian command and control
- Adaptation of commercial technology for military purposes faster than Russia’s defense industrial complex
Strategic Outcomes:
- Russia has lost more military equipment in three years than in any conflict since WWII
- Russia has suffered catastrophic casualties—likely 400,000+ killed and wounded
- Russia has failed every major strategic objective: regime change in Kyiv failed, rapid conquest failed, breaking Ukrainian will failed
- Russia has been exposed as far less militarily capable than Western analysts believed
By every objective measure of military effectiveness—innovation, efficiency, strategic impact, force multipliers, adaptability—Ukraine is dramatically outperforming Russia.
Ukraine is the scrappy, innovative, punching-above-its-weight competitor that Trump has claimed to admire his entire business career. Ukraine is the small operation outmaneuvering the bloated giant. Ukraine is David actually slinging stones effectively while Goliath stumbles.
Trump should love this story. It’s his brand. But he can’t see it because he has already decided Russia is the big boat that matters.
If there’s any path to shifting Trump’s position, it’s not through appeals to democracy, international law, or alliance commitments—he doesn’t care about any of those. It’s through forcing him to see that he has backed the wrong horse, that Putin’s “big boat” is getting systematically dismantled by Ukraine’s innovation, that Trump is associated with the bloated loser, not the strategic winner.
This requires reframing in Trump’s language:
- “Mr. President, Ukraine is destroying Russia’s oil infrastructure—that’s the kind of strategic thinking you’ve always praised”
- “Sir, Ukraine built a drone program from scratch that’s hitting targets deeper into Russia than Russia can hit into Ukraine—that’s the kind of innovation you respect”
- “Mr. President, Russia’s military is Soviet-style waste and incompetence—exactly what you’ve criticized about big government bureaucracies”
- “Sir, Ukraine is the small, efficient operation beating the bloated giant—that’s your story, that’s your brand”
This is deeply cynical. It’s also the only leverage that might work.
Because Trump doesn’t respond to moral arguments, strategic analyses, or alliance obligations. He responds to who makes him feel important and to being associated with winners rather than losers. If Ukraine and its advocates can successfully reframe the conflict in these terms—Ukrainian innovation and efficiency defeating Russian bloat and incompetence—there’s a narrow path to shifting his position.
But that path requires abandoning any expectation that Trump will do the right thing for the right reasons. It requires accepting that American foreign policy is now a hostage to one man’s ego and manipulating that ego in directions that align with American interests and Ukrainian survival.
This is what American leadership has become under Trump: a psychological manipulation exercise where our closest allies must flatter and frame and carefully manage the ego of our president because his narcissism is now the primary driver of American power.
Conclusion: No More Illusions, No More Time
We have reached the end of this chronicle, but not the end of the story. The story continues in Ukrainian blood, in Russian conquest, in the systematic dismantling of the international order—and in the choices that remain before us.
Across four exhaustive parts, we have documented what can no longer be denied, dismissed, or explained away. This series began with a promise: to show you the pattern. Not suspicions. Not interpretations. Not political spin. The pattern itself, carved in actions and statements and consequences across years.
Trump’s “big boat, little boat” worldview that makes him psychologically incapable of recognizing Ukrainian strategic success. His ego vulnerability that makes him susceptible to Putin’s patient grooming through flattery. His desperate need to be associated with winners that prevents him from seeing that Ukraine is objectively outperforming Russia in innovation, efficiency, and strategic impact.
And we’ve documented what Trump refuses to acknowledge: Ukraine’s extraordinary strategic success—the drone campaign that has crippled 38% of Russian refining capacity, the deep strikes reaching 2,100 kilometers into Russia, the systematic dismantling of the economic infrastructure sustaining Putin’s war machine, the naval victories without a navy, the military innovation that is objectively superior to Russian capability.
Ukraine is not the “loser” of Trump’s imagination. Ukraine is winning the economic war while fighting for survival. And Trump, locked in his binary worldview and conditioned by Putin’s systematic praise, cannot process this reality.
Donald Trump has betrayed Ukraine repeatedly, systematically, and with devastating consequences.
Not once. Not accidentally. Not in ways that might be explained by changing circumstances or difficult strategic choices.
Deliberately. Consistently. Across administrations, campaigns, and presidencies. In ways that align perfectly with Russian interests and damage American credibility, allied cohesion, and Ukrainian survival.
The 2019 extortion wasn’t an aberration—it was Trump being Trump. The 2024 aid sabotage wasn’t a miscalculation—it was Trump prioritizing his political interests over Ukrainian lives, exactly as he always does. The 2025 humiliation campaign isn’t a negotiating tactic—it’s Trump punishing Zelenskyy for the unforgivable sin of refusing to grovel, while rewarding Putin for the flattery Trump craves.
Every defense of Trump’s Ukraine policy must now contend with this complete record. Every rationalization must explain the totality of the pattern. Every claim that “this time will be different” must account for why it would be, when nothing else has changed except that Trump now faces even fewer constraints.
There are no good answers to these questions. There is only the reality of what Trump has done, is doing, and will continue to do—unless the flattery dynamic can be reversed, unless Ukraine’s actual strategic victories can be reframed in language Trump’s ego can accept, unless someone can make Trump see that he has backed the bloated loser against the innovative winner.
The Collapse of Every Defense
The apologists are out of material. Let’s address their remaining talking points, one final time:
“Trump is just a tough negotiator trying to get the best deal.”
Negotiators don’t systematically adopt the enemy’s propaganda. They don’t publicly humiliate allies while praising adversaries. They don’t withhold support to extort political favors. Trump isn’t negotiating for American interests—he’s serving his psychological need for Putin’s approval and his ego’s demand for constant validation.
“He’s trying to end a war that Biden couldn’t stop.”
By rewarding the aggressor, abandoning the victim, and establishing the precedent that territorial conquest works if you’re patient enough. This isn’t ending a war—it’s guaranteeing the next one while betraying everyone who resisted this one.
“Ukraine needs to be realistic about what it can achieve.”
Ukraine has survived three years against a nuclear superpower, inflicted catastrophic casualties on Russian forces, destroyed much of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, and crippled 38% of Russian refining capacity with domestically-produced drones. Ukraine has been extraordinarily realistic and remarkably successful. What Ukraine cannot survive is American betrayal masquerading as realism.
“We can’t risk World War III over Ukraine.”
The risk of great power conflict increases when aggression is rewarded, not when it’s resisted. Every authoritarian regime is watching to see if conquest works. Every alliance is assessing whether American commitments mean anything. The path to World War III is paved with appeasement that invites further aggression—exactly what Trump is offering.
“Trump’s advisors will restrain him.”
He fires anyone who opposes him. He has purged multiple national security teams. He surrounds himself with sycophants and loyalists who tell him what he wants to hear. The “adults in the room” either quit, were fired, or learned to enable rather than constrain. There are no guardrails. There never were. Putin’s flattery is more influential than any advisor’s analysis.
“This is just political bias against Trump.”
We have cited his own words. We have documented his own actions. We have traced consequences that flow directly from his decisions. We have shown the pattern of flattery-induced policy shifts across multiple countries and circumstances. This isn’t bias—it’s accountability. The evidence doesn’t care about your political affiliation, and neither does the pattern.
Every defense collapses under scrutiny. What remains is the thing itself: Trump’s demonstrated, documented, undeniable betrayal of Ukraine in service of his psychological relationship with Putin and his pathological need for validation.
What This Means—For Everyone
For Ukraine:
The worst-case scenario is unfolding, but a narrow path remains: reframing the conflict in terms Trump’s ego can accept.
American support cannot be relied upon based on moral arguments, alliance commitments, or strategic analysis. But it might—might—be secured by making Trump see that Ukraine represents innovation defeating bloat, efficiency defeating waste, strategic thinking defeating incompetence.
This requires Ukrainian messaging that:
- Emphasizes how Ukrainian innovation validates Trump’s business philosophy
- Frames Russian military failure as exactly the kind of government waste Trump criticizes
- Positions Ukrainian success as the kind of “art of the deal” outcome Trump claims to champion
- Makes Trump feel smart for backing the strategic winner, not the big loser
This is deeply cynical. It requires abandoning any expectation of American support based on principle. But it’s the only leverage that might work, because Trump doesn’t respond to moral arguments—he responds to ego gratification and being associated with winners.
Simultaneously, Ukraine must prepare for the likely failure of this approach: sustained conflict without reliable American weaponry, diplomatic isolation orchestrated by Washington, peace terms dictated by Moscow with Trump’s endorsement. The innovations that have kept Ukraine in the fight—the drone campaigns, the strategic strikes, the defensive adaptations—must accelerate and expand. European partnerships must substitute for American abandonment.
For Europe:
The transatlantic alliance that has secured European prosperity and peace for 80 years is now led by someone whose policy positions are determined by who flatters him most effectively. This is not hyperbole—we have documented the pattern across multiple countries and circumstances.
Europe faces a choice: continue the undignified flattery campaign in hopes of maintaining some American support, or accept that American leadership under Trump is fundamentally unreliable and build independent capabilities accordingly.
The answer is likely both: maintain the flattery to buy time while urgently developing defense industrial capacity, independent command structures, and security architecture that doesn’t depend on American consistency.
But Europe must understand: you are not engaged in normal diplomatic relations with a superpower. You are engaged in psychological management of a narcissist whose ego is a national security vulnerability. Putin understands this and exploits it systematically. Europe must either master the same manipulation or prepare for American abandonment.
For Other Democracies:
If Trump can abandon Ukraine—an American partner resisting genocidal aggression—he can abandon anyone. His support is not based on alliance commitments, strategic interests, or shared values. It’s based on whether he likes your leader personally, whether you flatter him sufficiently, and whether Putin objects to American involvement.
Taiwan should take note: Trump has already shown he values good relationships with Xi Jinping over alliance commitments. If Xi flatters Trump effectively while Taiwan’s leadership somehow displeases him, American security guarantees become worthless.
South Korea should prepare accordingly: Trump “fell in love” with Kim Jong Un based on flattering letters. Alliance commitments mean nothing compared to ego gratification.
Every democracy must understand that American security guarantees are now conditional on managing Trump’s psychology—and Putin is better at this than anyone.
For Russia and Authoritarian Regimes Globally:
The lesson is clear and catastrophic: aggression works if you can outlast Western attention and flatter the American president.
China is watching Ukraine and thinking about Taiwan. The lesson: invade, hold out long enough for Trump to tire of the conflict, flatter Trump personally, and wait for him to pressure Taiwan to accept a “deal” that rewards Chinese aggression.
Iran is watching Ukraine and calculating regional ambitions. The lesson: American opposition can be overcome through patience and personal flattery of American leadership.
Every revisionist power with territorial grievances is watching Ukraine and learning that the international order’s defense of sovereignty is rhetorical, not real. And they’re learning that the American president’s ego is a more important factor than American strategic interests.
Trump is teaching the world’s authoritarians that conquest pays—as long as you’re willing to flatter the right person.
For Americans:
This is your president, acting in your name, betraying allies who trusted American promises. Every Ukrainian city destroyed partly because Trump helped ensure insufficient air defense. Every Ukrainian casualty that could have been prevented with American weapons Trump withheld or delayed. Every Russian artillery shell fired with oil money from refineries Ukraine couldn’t hit because Trump opposed long-range strikes.
But also: this is your president whose foreign policy is determined by who flatters him most effectively. Whose strategic positions shift based on personal validation rather than national interests. Whose ego vulnerability has become the primary tool of Russian influence operations.
You cannot claim ignorance. The pattern has been documented exhaustively. You cannot claim surprise—he told us what he would do, and he has done it repeatedly, consistently, across multiple years and contexts.
What remains is whether you accept responsibility for enabling it, or whether you work to limit the damage while there’s still time.
The Moral Clarity Moment
We are facing a test of moral clarity that comes perhaps once in a generation. It is not subtle. It is not complex. It is as straightforward as questions of right and wrong become in geopolitics:
A democratic nation was invaded by an authoritarian power in naked territorial aggression. That democratic nation has fought with extraordinary courage and innovation, achieving strategic successes far beyond what anyone expected. It has not asked for American troops—only for weapons to defend itself.
And the American president has responded by echoing the invader’s propaganda, humiliating the defender’s leader, withholding critical aid, and preparing to reward the aggressor with territorial gains—because the invader flatters him and the defender refuses to grovel.
This is not a difficult moral calculation. This is not an ambiguous situation requiring sophisticated analysis. This is Trump choosing Putin over Zelenskyy, authoritarianism over democracy, personal gratification over American interests and Ukrainian lives.
Everything else is commentary. Everything else is rationalization. The essential reality is simple, documented, and undeniable.
Ukraine cannot survive Trump’s presidency without dramatic changes—either in Trump’s perception (through effective psychological manipulation that makes him see Ukraine as the winner he wants to be associated with) or in American politics or international security architecture. This is not pessimism—it is mathematical reality based on military capacity, economic sustainability, and the trajectory of American support under Trump’s leadership.
The catastrophe is not approaching. It is here. The betrayal is not theoretical. It is operational. The consequences are not future scenarios. They are present realities measured in Ukrainian casualties and Russian territorial gains.
So the question is no longer whether Trump will betray Ukraine. He already has, repeatedly and conclusively.
The question is what you will do about it.
He cannot betray Ukraine alone. He needs enablers in Congress who block aid. He needs media figures who amplify his lies. He needs voters who shrug at the consequences. He needs allies who prioritize party loyalty over principle. He needs all of us to decide that what’s happening to Ukraine is unfortunate but acceptable, tragic but not our problem, someone else’s responsibility.
Trump is counting on your complicity. Putin is counting on your fatigue. The next authoritarian planning the next invasion is counting on your indifference.
History is watching. Ukraine is bleeding. Democracy is at stake.
The evidence is complete. The pattern is proven. The psychological mechanism is exposed. The choice is yours.
Make it count.