Trump and his surrogates long ago gave up pretending they care about the issue at hand: empire building Russian revanchism. This is foreign policy finger painting for the lobotomized. Ukraine ceding terrority will only validate Putin’s policy that brings only death and misery where it goes. He has, in fact, promised that personally and never stopped talking about invading the rest of Ukraine. But nobody getting direct deposit checks and sitting in their comfortable armchairs thousands of miles away cares about any of that today.
fixed your priorities.
“Trump and his surrogates long ago gave up pretending they care about the issue at hand: empire building Russian revanchism. This is foreign policy finger painting for the lobotomized. Ukraine ceding terrority will only validate Putin’s policy that brings only death and misery where it goes. He has, in fact, promised that personally and never stopped talking about invading the rest of Ukraine. But nobody getting direct deposit checks and sitting in their comfortable armchairs thousands of miles away cares about any of that today.”
There is no doubt in my mind that Putin dreams of Soviet Union II.
However, he is generally a realist.
No Russian version General Grant has appeared in this war.
The monthly cost is high, the monthly gains are now small.
The key is to place a document carefully prepared in Washington, DC in front of Putin and Zelensky that it makes sense for both to sign, with reasoned encouragement by Team Trump.