We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we will all hang separately.
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin
President Trump is trying to end the Ukraine war, which has brought incalculable misery to both the Ukrainians and the Russians.
I say incalculable because the war’s advocates are not telling the truth about military and civilian casualty rates. Nor have they acknowledged the enormous environmental harms caused by the war.
Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, rattled Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky by observing that Ukraine will probably need to cede some territory to get a peace deal. However, Hegseth was only stating the obvious.
No credible authority believes Russia will consent to relinquish Crimea. Nor will Vladimir Putin give up the predominately Russian-speaking districts of the Donbas–where fighting has gone on for ten years.
Hegseth also made waves when he said that talking about NATO membership for Ukraine is unrealistic. Again, Hegseth was only stating the obvious. It would be insane to make Ukraine a NATO member now. Indeed, no NATO country is strongly pushing for immediate Ukraine membership.
Every American should be grateful for Trump’s energetic efforts to bring the stupid Ukraine war to a speedy conclusion. Yet, Democratic politicians are spewing vicious vitriol at the President while having no plan of their own to end this disastrous conflict.
Senator Richard Blumenthal’s criticisms were particularly odious. He objected to Trump’s characterization of Zelensky as a dictator who was doing a “terrible job” of running the war.
“What world is he living in?” Blumenthal asked.
[Trump’s remarks were] not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable, a disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom. The president’s surrender is pathetic and weak.
Perhaps it was therapeutic for Senator Blumenthal to insult the President, and I’m sure his hissy fit played well with progressive Democrats in New Haven. Nevertheless, what’s the Connecticut Senator’s plan for ending the slaughter in Ukraine?
Does Blumenthal want the U.S. to follow President Biden’s strategy, which was to ship money and weapons to Zelensky in perpetuity?
Will Zelensky’s corrupt and venal regime prevail if we keep sending cluster bombs, uranium-enriched artillery shells, antipersonnel mines, Abrams tanks, and F-16s to Ukraine? Or will we eventually stumble into a nuclear war?
I favor putting the Democratic Party’s deranged attacks against President Trump aside for a while and supporting his efforts to stop the Ukraine war. There will be plenty of time to slander him as a Nazi after the killing stops.
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