When Ukraine gave up nukes 1994 in exchange for security guarantees, Clinton was in charge. When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, George W. Bush was in charge. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Obama was in charge. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Biden was in charge. See, it is all Trump’s fault.
Andrew Bolt on Monday evening outdid himself. Watch it here if you have a strong stomach. It was the most drawn-out unhinged attack on Trump that I have seen. None of Adam Schiff, Gavin Newsom, Jasmine Crockett, Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters or Zohran Mamdani has done it better. What company to keep. But, for the record, Greg Sheridan congratulated him on his magnificent op-ed. Mon Dieu!
Now, to be fair, Bolt is a conservative warrior on climate change, on Israel, and on other things. He is one of the good guys. However, there is evidently something about Putin and Russia, maybe Zelensky, which produces cognitive dissonance in certain susceptible conservative minds. An assessment that Putin is a despotic thug, which is accurate enough, becomes synonymous with waging war by proxy to the last Ukrainian and Russian soldier standing. Recalcitrant, Trump refuses to buy this deadly bill of goods.
Trump has tried and is trying to forge a peace deal. So far without success. Are his critics upset at his failed mediation attempts? Not so much. Clearly, they are much more upset at his reluctance to go all in for Zelensky and a forever war. Seemingly, at whatever cost in blood and treasure, and however much it might lead to a wider bloodier war.
Thus, instead of warmly greeting and rolling out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska, Trump should have shirtfronted the thug or something of the sort. Yet, if the convivial meeting with Putin and the later meeting with European leaders and Zelensky eventually leads to a winding pathway to peace what the heck is there to gripe about? Not to worry. Those of a determined anti-Trump disposition will find something. There is no “conceivable” peace deal that will reflect well on Trump.
Trump knows that if the killing is to stop, the smaller country will have to swallow giving up territory; already mostly lost on the battlefield. Meanwhile, in the make-believe world of his critics, Russia can’t be “rewarded” for its aggression. It would be unjust. A lesson in history would be instructive. Constantinople is now Istanbul. Tibet is China.
I wrote about Israel last week. For some reason the comments section switched to Ukraine. The wars don’t have much in common. At the same time both are plagued with fabulism.
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Author: Ruth King
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