Posted on 02/20/2025 7:37:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former national security adviser John Bolton called President Trump’s positioning on ending the war in Ukraine “pretty close to surrender” in an interview released Thursday.
“I think Trump’s remarks and that of [Secretary of Defense] Pete Hegseth and others come pretty close to surrender,” he told Politico.
“It’s a position that’s similar to what [Vice President] JD Vance announced during the campaign about Ukraine: There’d be a ceasefire in place, a militarized zone would be created, negotiations would begin, Ukraine would agree not to join NATO.”
Trump and Hegseth made waves last week with comments that broke starkly with U.S. policy under former President Biden, who moved in lockstep with NATO and major European partners.
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Same guy who talked Bush 43 into invading Iraq. STFU.
If I were within earshot of that dipstick I’d tell him to go home.
America First John.
Surrender?
Like we’re at war with some other country?
To John Bolton—
Proverbs: Any fool will quarrel.
John Bolton is a drama queen and now without a security clearance
He’s Rachel Maddiow but with a bigger mustache
Bolton is irrelevant. He is a war monger. Why does the media keep putting him up there?
He’s so blatantly desperate to hold on to the wars that are lining his pockets. He should hold back a little in an effort to not appear to be so pathetic.
Like Pence, he should be living quietly in exile, in shame.
“Frankly, Margaret, I don’t care.”
coo coo cachoo
We do not care John Bolton, we have had it with useless endless wars, where we lose a lot more than just the war. We lose geopolitical dominance while destroying our nation in the process, as it begins to crumble from within. Go over & use your magic with China, so that it can be destroyed from within instead of us, John.
A recognition of reality more like. What’s the alternative? Keep flushing tens of not hundreds of billions of dollars down the toilet and watch the Ukes collapse because they’ve run out of men - and watch the Russians take Kharkov and the entire Black Sea Coast?
THAT’S the alternative. THAT’s what would happen if we continue this failed policy.
Bolton relevancy is -0.
Freaks me out a little there are media outlets still willing to carry his message.
“theres plenty money to be made selling the Army tools of the trade”
Bolton is pissed because his Deep State retainer is about to dry up.
Thanks, DOGE.
Ukraine would be the one surrendering, John. I’m surprised you don’t know the difference. 🤣
Trump’s offer to Zelensky is genius.
Give up land in the east while Putin stops attacks
Share your precious metals by going into biz with US
in exchange for decades of security via US presence.
He’ll come his senses very quickly.
I understand many east Ukranian citizens still speak Russian, and are not virulently opposed.
This shuts out Russian and China from those precious metals
If it is surrender, why is Trump dictating the terms?
Warmongers gotta monger.
That is what warmongers do.
Problem is Johnny boy, Trump is your daddy, he just ain’t going to be nobody’s Daddy Warbucks.
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