Posted on 03/27/2022 5:30:14 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
Former President Donald Trump would not be "capable" of holding peace talks in Moscow between Ukraine and Russia to stop the ongoing war, said John Bolton on Saturday.
Bolton, who served as Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019, said that such statesmanship would be out of Trump's character.
"He's not capable of it," Bolton told The Palm Beach Post. "This would require thinking through a policy and considering the pluses and minuses, the risks and costs involved. That's just not what he does."
Last Saturday, Trump said his personality kept the US out of war and added that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he were still in office.
The former president has repeatedly asserted that the ongoing war would not be happening if he was still in charge, Insider Lauren Frias and Sonam Sheth reported.
Bolton previously told The Washington Post that the only reason Putin didn't invade Ukraine during Trump's presidency is that he would've withdrawn the United States from the NATO alliance in his second term.
"In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO," Bolton said, per the newspaper. "And I think Putin was waiting for that."
In his interview with The Palm Beach Post, Bolton reiterated his belief that Trump's objective was to "withdraw the U.S. from NATO or substantially limit" Washington's support for the defensive alliance.
"He was very negative on the institution," Bolton added.
Bolton also told the local newspaper that Trump would have gifted Russia Ukraine had had won a second term as president.
Speaking to British radio station LBC last week, Bolton offered a negative assessment of how his former boss would have fared in this conflict. "If Trump had been re-elected, Putin would be in Kyiv already," he said.
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What a back-stabbing POS Bolton is.
I believe in 2016 Trump thought he could control the deep-state with the force of his personality. No one seemed to imagine the extent of the cancer and how it literally had spread everywhere, and to nearly everyone in DC.
If he runs again 2024, I hope his plan is to simply tear it all down.
Troublemaker Robert Delong is back at it here in post #6.
Horse crap .
Trumps big strength was in getting leaders together .
And this never would have happened with him as President
Petty jealousy.
Not being a member of NATO also means not being constrained by NATO...maybe Bolton needs to rethink his rhetoric.
Ivermectin...
Hydroxychloroquine...
LOL
NATO is worthless in that its existence permits EU nations to avoid spending on their own security and instead foisting the expense onto the backs of American taxpayers, all while implementing expensive goodies that make our leftists drool with envy.
Not his problem Bolton.
Libtard 101 isn’t Trumps issue at all.
Bolton. See what happens when you don’t get the power and clout you think you deserve.
Why are you including me in your spat?
He wouldn’t do it like all the previous negotiators have done. But he would succeed.
Not the John Bolton who has always been deeply dedicated to those who hired him in the past? You know, the one who is always 100% loyal to those who he has worked for? /s
By all means, I’m certain that President Blank Stare could competently hold those peace talks. /sarc
Once upon a time, I liked GWB and Bolton......
Normally I wouldn’t but these libtard infiltrators seem to be getting out of hand. One need only look at previous other posts of his to others and it would be clear this isn’t a mere spat.
Anyway, have a good one!
So...let me get this straight. The John Bolton who never saw a war he didnt like is talking peace talks now?
That John Bolton? Or am I thinking of somebody else here.
“This would require thinking through a policy and considering the pluses and minuses, the risks and costs involved. That’s just not what he does.”
What an idiot. Cost analysis IS Trump.
Who better to make a good policy?
A senile pudding eater operated by his shrew of a wife?
I just wish I could live long enough to read the history
books in fifty years.
Bingo. 👍 Trump scares the living crap out of world thugs and dictators. No need for peace talks. 😁
It’s nice that we finally all agree on something again. Thanks Bolton for bringing us all together. :)
I remember, a long time ago, when I liked John Bolton.
That was then.
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