Posted on 03/09/2023 10:56:57 PM PST by familyop
The former president told Sean Hannity’s radio show:...Mr Trump added: “That’s without even negotiating a deal. I could have negotiated. At worst, I could have made a deal to take over something, you know, there are certain areas that are Russian speaking areas, right, like, but you could have worked a deal. And now Ukraine is just being blown to smithereens.”
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Trump is a project-oriented promoter. He is accustomed to an ideal of creating an opportunity for people to work together, and thereby learning to get along with each other.
In practice, that has worked where he somehow acquired a group of people who are so-inclined.
He tends to succeed, where he focuses on the work, instead of reverting to un-forced, self-inflicted wounding by resorting to boxing - that he views as a kind of advertising (self-promotion).
He could still succeed, at project-promotion.
Trump needs a staff that helps him to remain focused on project promotion.
Really? Do tell. 🙄
I also disagree with rewarding the Russian tyrants with ill gotten plunder for invading other countries. Participating in such corruption would give a green light to Russia’s allies for invasions. Cowardice and selfishness would be the real way to World War 3, just as it was to the first two world wars.
Peace through strength. NATO!
It’s easy to tell that you’re a Trump supporter... So thank you for your very intelligent input.
Your tagline: “Nazi’s were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!”
Yet, you support the Nazis in Ukraine.
The map shows boundaries drawn up by the West after fall of USSR. The transition of “The Ukraine” into a supposed nation-state, Ukraine.
The purpose of every peace treaty since Versailles has been to ensure that war will without fail break out again within a generation. The Bankers and the MIC must have their livelihoods.
Recognizing reality - as well as what the locals want anyway - in exchange for ending this destructive conflict? Sounds like common sense to me though I’m sure the Neocons will call for a never ending supply of US Taxpayer money and Ukrainian blood to feed their delusions - and of course to avoid admitting they were wrong and that they screwed up in the first place.
Hey... King George the III had his supporters... Napoleon had his supporters... William Jefferson Davis had his supporters... The Kaiser had his supporters.... Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito and Stalin had their supporters... Mao and Pol Pot had their supporters and now Putin has his supporters... Supporting the wrong side of history doesn’t always make you wrong... Sometimes, it just makes you daft.
BTW - I’ll just assume that you didn’t realize that Zelenskyy is Jewish.
in other words, what is/was going to happen anyway. of course, under Trump, Putin would not have moved in the first place.
Europe has, historically, had wars on a regular basis. There has never been a permanent settlement of borders, interests, or leadership.
It has nothing to do with peace treaties.
Wars in Europe are a normal phenomenon. Until 1945, when they stopped being normal. That was the Pax Americana at work. A remarkable achievement, that depended on the US guaranteeing the peace, and serving as the big stick of a like-minded alliance.
Ukraine has wanted to be its own thing, independent, intermittently since the days of Hetman Chmielnyki. It almost managed it in 1918-21. Other ex-Russian empire lands managed it then. Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania had never really been independent either, but they became independent at that time.
Ukraine has a perfect right to independence, no less than the Czechs, Poles, Finns, Balts and the rest. The Ukrainians voted for it overwhelmingly in 1991.
The Russians are, as usual, being dicks.
Exactly so.
At first I thought giving the Donbas back to the Ruskies was an option for peace but then the same could be said for giving California back to the Mehicans.
I think any window of opportunity for a negotiated peace came and went long before Feb 24, 2022. As for endorsing annexation, that did not end very well in 1938-39. But perhaps that parallel is not valid here. We may never know.
I think this war only ends when Putin meets the grim reaper and somebody with a different agenda takes over in Moscow. Whether that’s good or bad remains to be seen (the other agenda, Russian agendas so far in history have a very mixed review).
“So you provoke and escalate with no idea how to finish what you started. Truman made the same mistake in Korea. LBJ did the same in Vietnam. And now Biden in Ukraine. You ideologues never think these things through, from means to endstate, and you always repeat the same mistakes over and over and never learn anything. NEVER.”
It’s because they think in fair and unfair, like children do. Life isn’t fair. If an army takes your land, and you fail to defend or reclaim it, it is no longer yours. It becomes theirs, and there’s nothing you can do about it. History repeats that you only keep what you can defend.
People like to think might doesn’t make right, when that’s not even the issue.
The issue is domination.
It is not up to any of us. It is up to Ukraine and Russia.
Who cares if Z is a Jew, their army’s various unit patches have SS emblems and swastikas, and many of their divisions are names after high ranking Nazis. Ever heard of the Dirlewanger brigade?
They’re Nazis. Deal with it.
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