Goals
Erm…getting to know? Now? Having not known before?? What were you doing all this time????
After meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and the president of the European Union, President Trump appears to have shifted his view on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No longer is he claiming that Ukrainian lands have been lost for good to Russia.
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Just like that, he comes out and admits that he hasn’t bothered to “get to know” the Ukraine/Russia military and economic situation until today. What a genius. Nobel Peace Prize, coming right up.
Instead of seeking to broker a peace, President Trump appears now to be washing his hands of the conflict in Ukraine. He expressed confidence that Ukraine could win back its land, even though it was unable to do so even when the United States was providing tens of billions of dollars in support. Trump offered to keep selling weapons to Europe, which they can then give to Ukraine, but he said nothing about providing new support from the United States. He ended with the words, “I wish both countries well.”
He finally “got to know” it but don’t go thinking that means he’s going to do anything about it. He has his own agenda. Getting the Nobel Peace Prize, appearing on late night talk shows, getting more money, firing people, yelling at us, supervising the building of the White House ballroom, reminding everyone how important he is, getting the Nobel Peace Prize while doing nothing to earn it, whining about Obama, getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, that’s very kind and generous of him, wishing both victime and assailant well. Maybe he touches a button in his limmo that winds his window down as he drives by a mugger or rapist in action on his victim, and lets them both know that he wishes them well.
Could get him a prize. If not a Nobel, then definitely a Booby. That’s for sure!
He’s swung behind Ukraine not because of any just cause considerations, but because he’s realised that Russia’s actually in trouble beneath the surface.
He’s not bothered by who did what; he’s bothered by being associated with weakness.
It seems that, in his current decaying state, he’s as credulous as he is stupid and vicious. He believes anything he’s told. A chat with Navarro—lunatic tariffs. Loomer drops in—purges to order. Putin—too many to count. Zelensky—a brief recognition of reality.
Again.
Until until somebody reminds him of how totally awesome Putin is.
Again.
Repeat indefinitely.
We all know that Donnie never learns from the past nor plans for the future, but lives in a permanent present, oblivious to anything other than whatever random impulse is passing through his head at this very moment. But the condition seems to be contagious. After all why else would people go interpreting each new temporary whim on his part as a sign that he is about to change his course, as if all his previous deadlines and ultimatums vis-a-vis Putin had never happened. We have seen what became of those. Remember just a few weeks before giving Putin that fawning hero’s reception in Alaska and handing him that blank check to do as he pleased in Ukraine, Trump was hinting about a nuclear strike on Moscow.
Trump vs Putin: Nuclear bombs at 20 paces. Not the easiest or the safest duelling situation for the rest of us..