President Trump seems to hedge his bets on Russia and Ukraine in order not to be on the losing side. While halting the vast billions and billions transferred to Ukraine during the Biden years MR. Trump still lets important weapons tech with A.I. go to Ukraine- recently providing 50 million dollars worth of A.I. chips to upgrade drones to A.I. piloting, and letting Elon Musk provide Starlink guidance for attacks in Russia. President Trump has also increased sanctions on Russia. Those actions all serve to prolong the war.
Ukraine appears to be planning an attack on the Crimean Peninsula soon and has started by destroying bridges to cut of military and fuel supplies in and out of the area. Ukraine is also attacking Russian oil refineries with western designed missiles and some like Britain’s Storm Shadow provided directly. With media reinforcement of Ukraine’s military position and the Democrat Party’s notion of ‘being on the right side of history’ (the winning side-In your heart you know war is right) the forces necessary for escalating the war through mutual destruction of infrastructure are increasing.
If Russia is in someway reduced to a position nearing defeat it is not impossibly they will use nukes upon European sponsors of the Ukraine war and Kiev too. Russian leadership is scheduled by Europe for arrest and conviction with life sentences for war crimes. That paradigm to may influence Russian leadership to opt for the extreme nuclear option of attacking Europe with dozens of nukes while just France and Britain retaliate- or perhaps just France. The United States may remain neutral in that configuration rather than invoke the M.A.D. nuclear exchange for Russia for N.A.T.O.’s sake.
President Trump can end the war fairly quickly and more or less securely only by restoring ful normal economic relations with Russia- ending all sanctions, and ceasing any kind of weapons tech transfer to Ukraine paid for by taxpayers. President Reagan might have had the courage and intelligence to take that bold step, President Trump would rather hedge his bet with a little on each side in the hope that war’s end will pay off with a windfall proplit.
Logically though the conflict is not one of good nature or well meaning people. It is a contest supported by international media propaganda with pure political and economic power attrition. The attrition is tragically wasteful. Even so ending the conflict will require an 800 lb gorilla to join one side or the other fully.
Joining the Ukraine side simply produces protracted conflict. President Biden tried that already. America hasn't put any sanctions on Ukraine. Ukraine still can't win. Meanwhile America is losing business opportunities with Russia and forcing the world to choose between BRICS and the U.S.A. That too is harmful to U.S. interests. Unlimited war with Russia escalates to M.A.D. nuclear policy wherein everyone on Earth is a loser.
Joining the Russian side of the tug of war can end the conflict with Russia and Ukraine; dividing Ukraine along the Dnepro River with assurances given all around about neutrality for Ukraine within at least 30 miles of the river banks.
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