The idea that the American president is representing anything other than his own personal interests, as he perceives them in the moment (meaning a period of time lasting somewhere between ten seconds and ten days) is laughable. The American people and the public interest simply are not being represented by this president. Not to mention the interests of what used to be called the free world. An unmitigated disaster from start to finish. And to think this is only getting started.
Agree we need to get the word out. My platform, such as it is, remains small but growing. You probably saw that I served in the US foreign service for 30 years. You may not know that my mother was French and my father German. I’m married with a Guatemalan, lived for 15 years in Latin America, and also spent nearly a decade in East Asia. So my perspective is multiple. Trump is a transparent fraud, a con artist, a criminal, a caudillo… and I speak as a self-styled rabid nonpartisan centrist in the American environment.
When you realize that you have an ineffective negotiator, you fire the negotiator and put in somebody competent. Just like when David Davis was fired by the UK for his useless effort at negotiating Brexit.
Although I hate this question, are efforts at peace silly? Don't we know that a real peace will not happen under current conditions? The focus needs to be, as it always has been, on the perfectly accomplishable (if painfully difficult) task of driving Russia out of Ukraine, so that Putin will learn not to continue his plan to reshape the world.
"Europe too found itself diminished, consigned to the margins...."
I don't know that that is exactly true. Being "consigned to the margins" by a complete idiot is hardly an insult against the Europeans. Their problem is, as the author has stated, that Europe has failed to build itself into the independent player it has long had the opportunity to become. It would benefit not only Europe, but also us in the United States if Europe would do that, as you could become the leader — or even the only preserving remnant — of the free world during what may yet be the long epoch when the United States has turned foolish. Lacking good leadership and wise voters of our own, we need you, and could, perhaps, someday return to being your trusted ally.
I would like to know why no one discusses this obvious farce in the American position: Seeking a false peace is doubly backstabbing when the United States is failing, along with Great Britain (and, of course, with Russia) to honor its treaty obligations to guarantee the security of Ukraine's borders.
Trump wasn't angling for leverage with Putin. He sought to impress capo boss Putin with displays of fealty and obeisance, degrading his own military by honor flyovers for the VIP, in awe of the boss who money laundering funded him through the 2000s.
As a result of all of this, Trump has shifted all responsibility for a ceasefire to Kyiv, with the victim of Putin’s genocidal invasion now being responsible for all peace efforts, not the genocidal dictator Trump thinks he’s now friends with.
The idea that the American president is representing anything other than his own personal interests, as he perceives them in the moment (meaning a period of time lasting somewhere between ten seconds and ten days) is laughable. The American people and the public interest simply are not being represented by this president. Not to mention the interests of what used to be called the free world. An unmitigated disaster from start to finish. And to think this is only getting started.
I 100% agree, and it's really important that we help people to understand this!
Would you be interested in coming onto my podcast / Substack live and discussing this sometime this week?
Agree we need to get the word out. My platform, such as it is, remains small but growing. You probably saw that I served in the US foreign service for 30 years. You may not know that my mother was French and my father German. I’m married with a Guatemalan, lived for 15 years in Latin America, and also spent nearly a decade in East Asia. So my perspective is multiple. Trump is a transparent fraud, a con artist, a criminal, a caudillo… and I speak as a self-styled rabid nonpartisan centrist in the American environment.
Of course.
When you realize that you have an ineffective negotiator, you fire the negotiator and put in somebody competent. Just like when David Davis was fired by the UK for his useless effort at negotiating Brexit.
Really disgusting and horrible development. Trump is behaving as a traitor and a Russian agent
Although I hate this question, are efforts at peace silly? Don't we know that a real peace will not happen under current conditions? The focus needs to be, as it always has been, on the perfectly accomplishable (if painfully difficult) task of driving Russia out of Ukraine, so that Putin will learn not to continue his plan to reshape the world.
"Europe too found itself diminished, consigned to the margins...."
I don't know that that is exactly true. Being "consigned to the margins" by a complete idiot is hardly an insult against the Europeans. Their problem is, as the author has stated, that Europe has failed to build itself into the independent player it has long had the opportunity to become. It would benefit not only Europe, but also us in the United States if Europe would do that, as you could become the leader — or even the only preserving remnant — of the free world during what may yet be the long epoch when the United States has turned foolish. Lacking good leadership and wise voters of our own, we need you, and could, perhaps, someday return to being your trusted ally.
I would like to know why no one discusses this obvious farce in the American position: Seeking a false peace is doubly backstabbing when the United States is failing, along with Great Britain (and, of course, with Russia) to honor its treaty obligations to guarantee the security of Ukraine's borders.
Trump wasn't angling for leverage with Putin. He sought to impress capo boss Putin with displays of fealty and obeisance, degrading his own military by honor flyovers for the VIP, in awe of the boss who money laundering funded him through the 2000s.
As a result of all of this, Trump has shifted all responsibility for a ceasefire to Kyiv, with the victim of Putin’s genocidal invasion now being responsible for all peace efforts, not the genocidal dictator Trump thinks he’s now friends with.