Europe is toast following the USA. When you have the
one-eyed leading the blind, going into the sewers is still following a
direction, but at what cost?
Now Trump wants Europe to foot more
of NATO's defense budget, a posture he already made during his first
term, when Europe is already on the edge of bankruptcy. It does not just
rain but pours for Europe. Europe should have started on having its own
defense plan without the USA involved.
Suffice to say, without
the USA in NATO, expansion of NATO would have been more tempered and
relations with Russia would not have descended into a more
confrontational approach. Why would Europe want to extend NATO into
Ukraine to antagonize Russia? Europe would now not have to suffer an
energy crisis, a path that Angela Merkel had tried to avoid all along.
She had a cordial relationship with Putin for most of her
chancellorship.
Meanwhile, I am waiting for Trump to end the Ukraine War in 24 hours, LOL.
Anonymous
Trump is now caught between a rock and hard place trying to end the Ukraine War, with Biden antagonizing Putin by allowing Ukraine to use longer range USA missiles to attack Russia. Biden, or should I say his handlers, just placed a roadblock in front of Trump to make sure peace does not come easy.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I read somewhere that Putin already knew that Trump's 24-hour peace deal is just impossible to work. It is just a con-man's job that Trump is trying to pull.
Putin knew that for Russia to keep the territories it occupied today is not going to be agreeable to NATO or Zelenskyy. After all the massive sacrifices by both sides, who is going to accept the status quo for nothing? What were they fighting for?
On the other hand, asking Putin to get out of Eastern Ukraine or even Crimea is out of the question, again touching on the massive sacrifices already made by Putin in those two years of war. Kursk was just a distraction, an attempt by Zelenskyy to extract a bargaining chip, but Russia is not taking the bullshit. Russia can take its time retaking Kursk. It has all the time on its hands. Just remember that Russia, like the former Soviet Union, thrives on long wars of attrition.