Why should the USA play nice with an a**hole who invaded another country and now he’s acting like the Iranians capturing sailors and forcing them to make BS confessions on TV?
Putin once had my respect but this whole Ukrainian adventure has reduced him to no more than a street thug in my eyes. No reason why our POTUS should be nice to this creep.
Sevastopol has been a Russian navy base since about the 1790s. The British fought the Crimean War there in the mid-1800s, the goal of that war was to invade and drive the Russians out of Crimea. He didn’t invade and steal anything. A party literally inspired and owing loyalty to the Third Reich took over Ukraine. Their clear intent was to turn that 200 plus your navy base over to Nato. That would be similar to us turning over Norfolk Navy Base. This wasn’t Putin invading Ukraine, this was a provoked reaction as NATO grabbed its final nation in it’s drive east to put them literally on the Russian border. And think about one other thing, seizing Kiev in a coup doesn’t give you the right to rule all of Ukraine, anymore than a pussy hat, BLM, antifa mob seizing DC would give them the right to rule all of the United States. When you seize the government in a coup, everybody else in the territory has the same right to grab what they can. And for the same exact reasons. A coup is outside the law.
And nobody says Trump should be nice to him. But because of a border squabble between Russia and Ukraine, now the United States cannot negotiate with Russia on things like nuclear weapons etc. You know, things that actually are American interests. And that was my point, apparently we cannot pursue American interest regarding Russia, unless Ukraine is in a happy condition with them.