1. Many of us watched the Alaska meeting with certain expectations, including that Trump might lower the boom on Putin with harsh economic sanctions in order to force Russia to accede to Ukraine's concerns.
2. What is missed in the equation is simply this: for Trump, there is the a world with 8 million human being, and there is America. And the latter takes precedence.
3. Nor is Trump thinking in terms of ending this war as the only consideration. No, Trump has the long view, beyond his term: a possible future war with America against a combined Russia-China is a true danger to the nation Trump loves.
4. If Trump can end this conflict without pushing Russia further into China's camp, he will: even at the expense of sacrificing Zelenskyy.
5. This is the history that Trump understands:
Lord Palmerston 1784–1865
British statesman; Prime Minister, 1855–8, 1859–65
We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Trump is the President and protector of America, not some sticky-fingered politician who sells America for thirty pieces of silver.
2. What is missed in the equation is simply this: for Trump, there is the a world with 8 million human being, and there is America. And the latter takes precedence.
3. Nor is Trump thinking in terms of ending this war as the only consideration. No, Trump has the long view, beyond his term: a possible future war with America against a combined Russia-China is a true danger to the nation Trump loves.
4. If Trump can end this conflict without pushing Russia further into China's camp, he will: even at the expense of sacrificing Zelenskyy.
5. This is the history that Trump understands:
Lord Palmerston 1784–1865
British statesman; Prime Minister, 1855–8, 1859–65
We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
- speech, House of Commons, 1 March 1848
Trump is the President and protector of America, not some sticky-fingered politician who sells America for thirty pieces of silver.