Russia is winning - we don’t get to dictate terms.
Trump is an infinitely better leader and negotiator, but he’s not King of the World and his options are mostly the same as Biden’s; keep throwing resouces into the black hole or cut losses and move on.
Threatening sanctions hasn’t and will not work - we already blew our load in that regard, and sanctions, threats and arming Ukraine is no way to make a deal with the side that’s already withstood all of it.
Ukraine is the SUCK, and America has been choosing our foreign entanglements very poorly.
President Trump is going to b***h slap Putin back across the Volga.
I can't understand Trump's continued involvement in Ukraine. He tried to bring people together - and it exposed immediately that the EU-Brussels want to continue the war, their puppet Zelensky doesn't want peace, and Russia is intransigent on the goals they have stated all along.
Trump taking ownership of Biden/Blinken/Nuland's failed adventure is a path to failure.
The US never did real sanctions on Russia. Unless you put sanctions on all countries that still do commerce with a sanctions target then it’s not really sanctions.
To h—l with the both of them. They can continue to kill eachother slowly.We should wash our hands of it.
It's much more complex than only what's happening in Ukraine, and much more dangerous. We defeated the USSR in the Cold War by being economically more powerful than them.
Everything that Trump is doing right now to rebuild our economic engine (e.g. investments in AI and chip manufacturing, leveraging our energy production abilities, trying to modernize and bring back steel production, and yes even tariffs) is being done not just to provide Americans with jobs (although incredibly important), it's also being done because it is absolutely essential to our national security.
IMHO we should look back at EVERYTHING done by Obama in his 3 terms (including the Biden 'term') with a focus on how each particular move/action could weaken America in some way. We should do the same with all of his nefarious 'funders' and supporters (e.g. Soros and anyone who provided big financial resources to him, as a starting point) and look for their webs of connections - as well as looking for how they communicate with one another.
When Obama told the Russian ambassador that he would have 'more flexibility' in his second term, it was a clear indication that he had/has an agenda that he couldn't disclose to the American people.