Posted on 05/28/2025 1:48:24 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
This is not my war,” stated President Donald Trump emphatically to a dubious—nay, hostile—White House Press Corps when asked about the potential outcome of negotiations with Russia over ending the Ukraine War. Whether those in the corporate press fully grasped what the 47th president was saying is another matter.
Without stating it plainly, the president was essentially acknowledging that he had no real leverage over Russia to get them to end the war. So, rather than needlessly drag out this hopeless conflict (for the NATO side of the proxy war with Russia), where 5,000 young men die every week, Trump is readying to cut his, and America’s, losses.
Every patriotic American should welcome this outcome. Because it is very likely that the Ukraine War will go beyond merely a regional proxy war if the conflict continues longer with American support, a prospect compounded by the fact that the Ukrainians are getting increasingly desperate.
Thus, any negotiation will not be a serious affair. Rather, Trump needs the appearance of an attempted negotiation so that he can walk away and unilaterally declare peace. In so doing, the United States will finally be able to divorce itself from the losing Ukrainian situation.
There is, unfortunately, no cleaner way for Trump to leave this quagmire. His predecessor simply left Trump with no real leverage over either Ukraine or Russia.
The Europeans, America’s supposed allies in this shambolic proxy war, lack any significant military capacity on their own but are willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Once that last Ukrainian us killed off, the Europeans will giddily fight Russia in Ukraine to the last American GI. Trump understands this. He won’t play along forever with a delusional Europe and a recalcitrant Ukraine.
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NATO should be extended out to Vladivostok. Not.
Trump should state that he will not support NATO if they start a war, which they have.
>>”Without stating it plainly, the president was essentially acknowledging that he had no real leverage over Russia to get them to end the war.”
Funny. That’s not what I heard.
I understand that it is Trump’s negotiating style to take a bold position and then shift that position as he seeks his best possible deal. I think that’s smart, and I have no problem with it. It seems to be a good strategy for tariff talks.
But on Ukraine, he seems to periodically indicate that he is “walking away”. But then he doesn’t. I really wish he would. Just completely drop it and let Europe do whatever Europe is going to do. I will be disappointed if Trump is now saying he will walk away, and doesn’t actually mean it.
You can’t play catch with somebody who won’t throw the ball back.
It says, without evidence.
For the Deep State elites and globalists who are America’s enemy, yes.
It's an empty threat but one being made to placate the neocons in the Republican party.
Anymore sanctions against Russia will devastate the economy. The base doesn't want anymore money wasted on Ukraine.
Trump has plenty of leverage he can use against both sides. The problem has been trying to determine when and where to apply it. This 3-4 month process was necessary to allow Trump to take the measure of both sides and to find out which side wants a ceasefire more. Zelensky has made it harder on himself and on Ukraine by being defiant. If he had been respectful and co-operative with Trump over his peace efforts, the process would be further along right now.
The problem with applying more pressure on Russia is not that Trump doesn’t have options but rather that it puts him in a difficult position if he does so and then Zelensky tries to undercut him afterwards. But it sounds like Trump believes he has figured out a way forward.
The Ukraine was has absolutely NOTHING to do with our national security.
Ukraine has been a money laundering machine for politics and scumbags like the Soros that kick money back to them.
Ukraine would be Trump's Iraq is he wasted anymore money on the war.
Why? Ukraine means nothing to us. Its not our fight or our problem. Only some people who TRY to make it our problem.
Let them kill each other till they get tired of it. Embargo both sides and it will end sooner rather than later.
It was just shtick when President Trump said he could end the war in 24 hours.
He had no plan to do that and people should not have taken him seriously.
It seems to me that President Trump has little leverage over Putin.
It’s about time!
More than enough of our hard earned tax dollars have gone to fund the War Between the Slavs and the lifestyles of corrupt oligarchs who hate America.
Trump is not going to walk away even though that is what he would like to do.
It would be like walking away from Poland during WWII.
“His predecessor simply left Trump with no real leverage over either Ukraine or Russia.”
BS
We have existential leverage over Ukraine.
Disagree 110%
One of the key takes from the article: Expecting Zelensky or anyone in his inner circle to seriously seek peace under those circumstances is living in a fantasy believable only to elites in Brussels (and to the Democratic Party in the U.S.).
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