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Trump-Putin Ukraine Plan Validates Kremlin’s Modus Operandi
Congratulations to Vladimir Putin. He's on the verge of securing from Donald Trump, shrewd negotiato
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Trump never cares about the human cost of his supposed “deals.” He just wants to claim he got something and isn’t he “the best” and won’t he be chosen the “[prom] king” real soon now; oh and get some kind of big prize.
Simple-minded, egotistical maniac is motivated by an absurd vision: DJT receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Agreeing to meet with Putin, even if he does not pressure Ukraine into ceding territory to Russia, is a disgrace. Bending over after threatening Russia with sanctions backed by a bipartisan US Senate…TACO cubed.
I know we’re all struggling to understand what goals Trump has, much less what strategies. I have reluctantly come to a conclusion that at least works better for me, in terms of helping me to make “sense” of his actions. My belief and of course it’s no more than that–is that his real goal, whether it’s conscious or subconscious or unconscious–is to bring the U.S. and possibly the world to a state of complete rubble. Full stop.
Sadly, you nailed this one.
A deal lifting sanctions on Russian oil may make it more difficult for the President to browbeat the EU nations into buying more US LNG?
Trump is trying to scrape the war in Ukraine off his shoe any way he can, and he doesn’t care what Zelensky has to eat in order for him to do it. There is no threat that the U.S. will further back Ukraine if Russia violates any ceasefire, and Zelensky knows this. (That’s why he balked at such an agreement last time.) However, Trump is now apparently missing-out on too many meaningful playdates with Putin, so this simply has to end somehow.
The administration is pro-Russia. There was only ever one way things would pause. Putin keeps the gains and gets to take a breather, before coming back for more.
Prospective EU member state in Europe under war of conquest by Russia and the course of the war is decided by the U.S. It should be a scandal but isn’t. Sad.