The Congress and President Trump are moving toward more weapons for Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia as of that would do anything besides protract the conflict another year or more. The President apparently never had a realistic grasp of the history of the conflict and simply believed his charisma and power could end the conflict and develop a peaceful, prosperous bilateral economic relationship with Russia. Yet Mr Trump is no Reagan and lacks the faith and optimism, much less realism required to go against the conventional, dysfunctional war policies of the rich weapons manufacture and sales sycophants in government.
If the President actually wanted to end the war he should elucidate what his position is regarding a permanent peaceful resolution of the conflict. Presently his ideas seem to be rather secret. Without public disclosure of what his criteria are there is no reason to trust him at all as competent peace developer with Russia.
Since Vietnam the United States generally escalates conflicts and continues them indefinitely at great cost in lives and dollars, and usually without a successful outcome. Congress and Presidents seem to be content with copious bloodshed and trillions added to public debt while letting the conflict evolve to a bad end. There is no reason to believe the Ukraine war will turn out any different, and President Trump seems to have lost his energy for peaceful thought in preference for the usual bloody approach Democrats love.
There are real land settlements that need be made public and understood. Russia’s requirements are well known in that respect. They also want a normalized international situation without sanctions, reparations demands and war crimes trials after a permanent peace if actualized.
Russia wants a pacified West Ukraine that does not join N.A.T.O. and caps its military to a defense force of some kind comparable to that of Japan after the end of World War Two I would guess.
To recognize and accept those basic conditions is requisite for peace. Otherwise the disingenuity of President Trump with someone to blame in Moscow turning about to accept new sanctions and weapons renders the administration even more untrustworthy internationally. Seeming to be deceptive and untruthful is not a way to bring anyone to have enough trust to bring a realistic, peaceful end to the war.
The President’s strong point against war was a moral point in his favor, and frankly he can use moral points in his favor. Instead the President and Majority Leader Thune seem to be airhead sycophants of death and moral corruption insofar as they could strongly advocate clear and acceptable terms to Russia that would bring an end to the war next month. Dragging out that conflict the rest of the year may be appealing to the Antifah crowd and various elements of what has evolved into a neo-terrorist Democrat Party domestically yet it takes Republicans down a dark, descending path of Stygian, chthonic realms of moral darkness through tunnels of political doom cheered on by amoral, godless ghouls of original sin that the right-minded do not know or love.
The West is half of the problem; and 100% of the cause of war from the Russian point of view. Russia is pushing back against the western push eastward in the only way that works with the west; force. Realpolitik adapted for the present would acknowledge that and draw a line in Ukraine that each side can live with.
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