An Editorial
Trump to Ukraine on the Russian invasion: "you should have never started".
Greetings subscribers, I will depart from my regular format for once because I feel it’s time for something of an editorial. Donald Trump seemed somewhat agitated at a news conference he gave on Feb 18 from what is essentially his new White House South at his Florida Golf Course Mar-a-Lago.
When asked by a reporter if he had any message for Ukrainians who might be feeling betrayed at being excluded from the talks he responded:
“I’m very disappointed, I hear that they’re upset about not having a seat [at the talks],” The US president said a “half baked” negotiator could have secured a settlement years ago “without the loss of much land”.
“Today I heard, ‘oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years ... You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,” he said.
I suspect he was agitated for a number of reasons, firstly his plan to shake down Ukraine for 500 billion was leaked in its entirety to the press, possibly by someone in his own team, aghast at the sheer immorality of it. Extortion may be Trump’s standard operating procedure but the USA is used to being a tad more circumspect when using it.
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Secondly, behind the scenes Trump is getting a lot of pushback both from European leaders [who quite rightly feel betrayed] at being purposely excluded from the negotiations, not to mention other ‘allies’ from around the world.
Thirdly because intelligence sources claim the Russians were more interested in attempting to negotiate long term deals and an end sanctions, in fact the same intelligence experts say Putin is uninterested in ending the war.
Things are not going to plan, Trump was expecting a quick deal to end this war ,and with his pal Putin, to divide up the spoils while at the same time weakening Europe. To get it he was prepared to betray his supposed “allies” and allow Putin free reign to take back most of the former Soviet Union.
But no quick deal is in the offing,Ukrainians have no intention of just surrendering and the Russians think they can take it all while a weak ineffectual president who has no real understanding [or interest] in international affairs flounders.
Finally Trump’s former allies in Ukraine and the rest of Europe are now forewarned of his intentions.
