{"id":249,"date":"2026-03-27T16:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directpolicycenter.org\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:20:11","slug":"rosenberg-russia-brushes-off-trumps-claim-of-paper-tiger-in-aimless-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/rosenberg-russia-brushes-off-trumps-claim-of-paper-tiger-in-aimless-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosenberg: Russia brushes off Trump’s claim of ‘paper tiger’ in aimless war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On paper, there was plenty in Donald Trump’s comments to rile the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For starters, his description of Russia as a “paper tiger” that had been “fighting aimlessly” in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Moscow won’t like that.<\/p>\n

I remember when President Barack Obama described Russia as a “regional power”, as opposed to a global one: that was taken as a big insult here.<\/p>\n

President Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine could win back all the territory Russia had seized will have raised eyebrows, too, in Moscow.<\/p>\n

And Russian eyebrows will have shot up even higher after Trump’s reply to a reporter’s question.<\/p>\n

“Do you think that Nato countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their air space?” the reporter asked.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I do,” replied Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On paper, there was plenty in Donald Trump’s comments to rile the Kremlin. For starters, his description of Russia as a “paper tiger” that had been “fighting aimlessly” in Ukraine. Moscow won’t like that. I remember when President Barack Obama described Russia as a “regional power”, as opposed to a global one: that was taken …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,72,66,67,71,69,64,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assessments","category-comments","category-important","category-issues","category-multimedia","category-news","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmoodsaif.org\/Jannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}