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Erik Latranyi: [Boy are you a slimeball.

Trump and DeSantis support a ceasefire as well, which freezes everything followed by a negotation for peace. That is how it works.

If you say that is supporting Russia, then Trump/DeSantis support Russia’s invasion. ]

If that is how they play it if elected, that would an accurate reading, that they are on Russia’s side. Trump talked up Russia before being elected, then spent his entire tenure bashing Russia’s brains in, including an incident in Syria no other US president in the nuclear age would have authorized, where hundreds of Russians were killed. If that is Trump’s response in a no-stakes incident in Podunkville, Syria, that nobody cares about, an invasion in the heart of Europe calls for the big stick. My expectation is that they are shining on people like you as necessary for a primary victory.

But in the larger scheme of things, there’s no way to interpret the annexation of Ukraine by Russia as anything but an American defeat. Whether under a DeSantis or Trump administration, an American president who let Russia conquer Ukraine would be thought a loser, in much the same way the fall of Iran left an indelible impression on Carter’s reputation. That’s why no US president, Democrat or Republican, will let this go. Biden is likely on Putin’s payroll, and he’s not letting it go. No way any other US president will let it stand.