
My Way Or The Hard Way
In 2016, when he was still inclined to interviews with traditional media outlets, Donald Trump was asked by Mika Brzezinski who he consults on "dire" foreign policy issues. Trump's answer was legendary.
"I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain, and I've said a lot of things," Trump explained. "My primary consultant is myself."
Trump and his "very good brain" went on to become leader(s?) of the free world, and after a four-year hiatus, they're back to give it anot
The Project2025 manifesto stated that the authors are not inclined to give in to Putin on Ukraine. Chances are, we have two sides of very well trained psyop spooks with bookshelves of dossiers on how to manipulate sociopaths, and one sociopath in particular, trying to make their policy stick in a Mango colored brain. So whose spooks will win out? We’ll have to wait and see. Maybe Putin looks enough like a loser for Ukraine to get a lift…
Your comment greatly strengthened my understanding of what is going on. Independent of this post, I have decided to ride this one out. I will be preparing for when the pendulum swings the other direction as John McCain educated me often swings from one side to the other. I am staying out of the path of the swinging pendulum. I am waiting for it to come back.
Public posturing, because privately Putin wants to take a break and strengthen, and he can save face buy “only” taking a second huge swath of Ukraine, before he waits for his moment to come back for the rest.
Sadly, it is no stretch to imagine Trump standing in front of a mirror and consulting himself, with each consultation ending with him hopelessly tangled up in his own abject self-flattery loop.
Saturday night live script writer in the making you are.
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”
Maybe Putin tests trump and uses a tactical nuke on a very low population area.
Vladdy would be testing Europe too. Not something after such a long war that is not without risks for Vladimir and his happy bunch of psychopaths.
Hints the Biden-raised sanctions on Russia’s shadow tanker fleet could be retained – positive for energy stocks, and would fit with Trump’s desire to increase US oil and gas exports.
Russia keeps everything in Ukraine that it currently holds, Ukraine can never join NATO, a one-mile neutral buffer-zone will be established between the two countries, and all sanctions against Russia will be dropped. That is the only “deal” you will get, like it or lump it. I expect much of Europe will disagree about lifting sanctions.
Same ‘deal’ offered a couple of years ago I think. More like an ultimatum by a winner than a concession of a loser. Russia is losing this war, therefore they need to concede.
Just saw Trump this a.m. on screen at Davos, giving a ridiculous speech, then fielding 5 questions and not giving a coherent answer to any of them. If anyone else had spewed his nonsense, they’d have been laughed off the video screen. Instead he got lukewarm applause. Our leader is just pathetic.