Posted on 02/26/2025 7:22:19 AM PST by karpov
Let’s not be squirrels who find the same nut over and over and are surprised each time.
Donald Trump’s latest outburst represents, by my count, the third round of Mr. Trump popping off at Ukraine’s President Zelensky, perhaps for no reason deeper than Mr. Zelensky’s spurning of a Trump proffer on minerals.
Mr. Trump’s all-purpose strategy when frustrated is tit-for-tat. It fills his need to dominate the news constantly while he fumbles around for a laurel to award himself in place of the one that got away. Where press disingenuousness bleeds into dishonesty is treating his every ad lib as if it carries the same weight as the carefully scripted and planned statements of an Obama or Bush. A Trump blather blaming Ukraine for not negotiating segued into something he didn’t clearly mean, yet now his team must mumblingly agree Ukraine started the war.
On negotiation, however, he has a point. When Joe Biden’s chief military adviser urged talks in November 2022, he exposed a problem: Here was Ukraine’s chief ally recommending peace with its Russian occupier after carelessly suggesting Russia could be expelled, reparations could be extracted, and Vladimir Putin could be rung up before a war crimes tribunal.
Ukraine’s supporters never came close to willing the means to support these ends. With his army splayed out on Ukraine’s roads, Mr. Putin made garish nuclear threats precisely because he couldn’t protect his troops from NATO air power. When he was discombobulated by early failure, the West could have taken advantage but didn’t. The Biden administration could have called for a significant increase in U.S. defense spending. It didn’t.
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>> Let’s not be squirrels who find the same nut over and over and are surprised each time.
For just that reason, Jenkins, I’ll NEVER subscribe to your f’n “news” paper. Don’t want to see your nuts on my doorstep. Ever.
Now GFY.
This Holman W. Jenkins must go through life as an insufferable fag.
Sucks to be him.
Twisted neo con article praying for WWIII.
Biased junk from thr first sentence.
Not even worth reading.
BARF-WORTHY article.
Trump used to pop off about Little Marco, too. Now Little Marco is Trump’s SoS.
His therapist is probably Dr. Bandee Li.
Where would one even start?
Try this - Zelensky cancelled elections. That defines him as a dictator
What do people want from him? From this destructive hopeless war against Russia?
WSJ: “We could have beaten Russia in a war on their border, if only we had tried harder!”
Globalist media organization says what?
The WSJ repeatedly condemns Trump’s strategy on a Monday, and sullenly reports the resulting success on a Wednesday.
Losers.
Not even close. Zelensky is following the constitution during a state of war and has the full support of the parliament which just confirmed that he is the legitimate and elected president. Even the opposition is against holding an election during the time of war.
Biden and the Deep State were looking to skim money from the aid packages to Ukraine. Therefore, there were many of them to increase their ability to skim off them. Giving Ukraine the military aid it needed to stop Russia or force them to the negotiating table was never the plan. In fact, the Bidet Regime put limitations on the use of the military materiel provided, i.e., don’t bomb the refineries.
well, it is in the Ukrainian constitution ( https://rm.coe.int/constitution-of-ukraine/168071f58b ) prohibits the holding of elections during martial law, which was extended in July 2023, one year after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Article 83 of the Ukrainian constitution states: “In the event that the term of authority of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s parliament] of Ukraine expires while martial law or a state of emergency is in effect, its authority is extended until the day of the first meeting of the first session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, elected after the cancellation of martial law or of the state of emergency,”
Article 19 of Ukraine’s martial law legislation explicitly prohibits holding national elections while the country remains under wartime restrictions. The law states: “Under martial law, the following are prohibited: holding elections of the president of Ukraine, as well as elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local self-government bodies.”
Note that these articles were validated in 1996 as the constitution of Ukraine.
Full support of parliament. Ok. You know he has a 4 (four) % approval rating among Ukrainians. Right?
Incorrect! Before Trump calling him a dictator his approval rating was in the mid to high 50's. It actually soared afterwards but this was only the people rallying around the flag and will not last. Do not listen to Russian propaganda. Zelensky is actually popular in Ukraine, although not universally, just as you would expect in a democracy.
Is the Journal worth $1/week? Gotta admit it’s higher-level informative even if they don’t get it right too often. Still $52/year doesn’t seem too expensive.
My problem is canceling. These people don’t make it easy. Netflicks screwed me out of $15.
Aussie Murdoch’s globalist open border rag.
‘nuff said.
Trump is drawing Russia into a settlement.
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