Trumps lips move; the civilized world vomits…
Headline after headline starts with; “Trump says…”. Before you read further, you just know it will be nothing but lies - or absolute BS. And you’re right.
Trump opened his mouth again.
The response is, appropriately, an eye roll and either a vocal, or a silent but deeply felt; YGBSM !!
Available from several news sources, I read it first at KyivIndependent.com; “Trump says Russia has shown willingness for peace by not taking over all of Ukraine, calls it 'pretty big concession.' “Stopping the war, stopping from taking the whole country, pretty big concession,” Donald Trump said on April 24 when asked what Russia has offered as part of a potential peace deal.”
To actually think that “willing to NOT conquer the entire country” of Ukraine is adequate restraint to justify rewarding Russia with a free pass for militarily taking possession of merely twenty percent of the country AND all the civilian atrocities and war crimes they inflicted in the process is astoundingly stupid, uncaring and reflects a mind that does not belong in this millennium.
Ukraine has on their own stopped Russian advances in there tracks. They’re destroying an increasing number of militarily significant and legal war-sustaining economic targets deep in Russia with their own in-country manufactured ordnance. Ukraine has convincingly proved Russia CAN’T conquer the whole country. But, even if they could; does Russian “willingness not to invade the rest of Ukraine” meet the definition of a “concession”? Hmmm; I have decided I will not steal my neighbors house, SUV, and wife; therefore he should willingly accept my taking possession of his coin collection and Prius…
Respectable journalism requires that certain levels of dialogue be avoided. Vocabulary normally associated with high-school or rough construction sites and back alleys is to be avoided - at the risk of being judged as below academic quality. I’ve usually attempted to observe that unwritten standard, but;
Trump is full of shit.
The peace “deal” that trump has discovered is hard to force down the throats of the combatant countries is an elephant of traitorous betrayal and extortion. Gee, I wonder why they’re not rushing to sign ? Russia has discovered that trump is all-in for them (no surprise with Krasnov in the driver’s seat), so they are holding out for more; expressed as “our goals must and will be met, we need to work out some of the details”. And Ukraine is, rightfully, not willing to blindly accept the trump/rubio/witkoff surrender ultimatum.
Trump is full of… okay, let me work on that. Trump is completely insensitive to the depth of animosity that Ukraine rightly holds for Putin’s illegal imperialist invasion and trump, in his chosen blatant bias, is apparently willfully oblivious to the depth of evil Putin embodies in his violation of international law. A fully developed academic-quality discussion would delve more deeply into an analysis and explanation of what’s wrong with trump’s position, or statements, and offer what should be said or done instead.
With trump, and this administration in power, that would be a waste of time. They are immune to words and concepts like “fair”, “just”, “peace”, “legal” and “democracy”. It’s intentional !! In this charade, the trump gang of thieves have their own goals - completely out of alignment with your average western democracy. They must be impeached and removed, or the world; the one that most of humanity wants to live in, will be lost and out of reach for decades, or more.