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told The Washington Post that the only reason Putin didn't invade Ukraine during Trump's presidency is that he would've withdrawn the United States from the NATO alliance in his second term.
"In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO," Bolton said, per the newspaper.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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Don’t think he would have needed to in the first place.
“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.”
Isn’t that something the head of a business might do every day?
NATO is an ATM for neocons that invest in the military industrial complex, and Trump knew that and didn’t want taxpayers funding it.
Bolton is a clown. All his cred is gone. What he says is just the opposite.
Creaky old warmonger John Bolton is incapable of mustering a solid bowel movement.
Yeah I’ll vote for Trump if he’s the nominee in 24 but man would I love knowing that every adviser he had while President that fed him these traitors is not allowed within 500 miles of the White House especially Ivanka and Jared.
Bolton, deep state POS.
He has been a traitor to America and Trump!
I lost all respect for Bolton over the past five years. He is nothing more than a RINO warmonger.
Trump stepping over the borderline of North Korea gave Rocket Man a feeling of importance although it was a NOTHING BURGER, it went a LONG WAY of an live branch!! Trump had a way to bring people out of the fold into a feeling of security that the US was not going to invade and try to get regime change OR bulky other countries!! Biden PRODDED Russia into this invasion and my belief is he had intel whisper into Putin’s ear about the bio labs in Ukraine, WE WILL SEE! WEF wants regime change in Russia PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!
It’s sad when has-beens don’t know it’s over. Bolton keeps croaking but only the media listens
Since kept a peaceful world for 4 years the talking point is that they were just waiting for his 2nd term. Yea, makes sense. Funny that they all decided to implement their Trump 2nd term plans under a Lieden admin. They are all mad because his record embarrasses their “expertise”
If Bolton was the NSA now we’d already be in a shooting war with Russia
Bolton had ALWAYS been a war monger we were just believers in him because we at the time believed the LIES of going into Iraq!! MANY on this site did not believe the LIES after, Randy Weaver event, and the attack of the Branch Dividians many of us at that time were of the younger generation! NOW we are the older generation having SEEN the LIES and the younger generation on this site will have to learn just as we did! It is a VERY HARD reality to learn just how corrupt our government is I have to say that Trump brought more to light than I EVER believed possible and has become extremely frightening!!
Bolton, the Angry, Bitter Neocon Warmonger attempts desperately to remain relevant. And, Fails Miserably. No one except Bolton gives a _hit what comes out of his pie hole.
Unless, of course, it serves the Deep State and the MSM anti-Trump, anti-America First, Globalist Agenda. Even for the microsecond anyone even notices this loser.
They wouldn’t have been needed if Trump were President, says me.
I have been reading your comments at about 10 posts in the last 3 days about the Ukraine WAR. It seems very clear from what you write that while you may be a Trump supporter, you definately are a Putin supporter, and therefor not to be trusted for truth.
“One need only look at previous other posts of his to others and it would be clear this isn’t a mere spat.”
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I looked through a couple of pages. I think you may have him confused with someone else. Seems fine to me. I don’t see anything anti-Trump, not that that is a prerequisite to proving one’s a Libtard, but you implied it.
Everybody hates Bolton.
Bolton is one to talk about capability.
The premise is pure trash. Currently they are negotiating with Russian troops around Kiev, Mariupol destroyed and millions displaced. Trump would never have got himself into this mess to begin with. Thr erst negotiations amount to sanctions after Putin set the facts on the ground. This current situation is nothing to boast about but deep state seems to think this is a great example of thr “free world “ at work. That fact alone tells you thry are corrupt, evil or completely disconnected from the reality of their constituency.
Trump said he was going to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
He couldn’t do it, the experts said. All of them. The Middle East would erupt in flames.
Well, he did, and it didn’t.
Then, as Trump’s first term was coming to a close, we had the Abraham Accords. Gee. Peace was breaking out everywhere over there.
Now, just over a year since the Leftists got their rat-claws on the levers of power, there is a clamor for a world-wide war.
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