Trump is thinking outside the Ukrainian box
Posted By: Big Bopper, 2/22/2025 11:00:38 AM
Inside the box, and the Beltway, the thinking all along has been that we must draw a line at Ukraine, else Putin and the barbarians will soon be on the steps of Warsaw and then Berlin and Paris. Besides, Russian aggression and aggressors are morally bad. We owe it to posterity and civilization not to crumble before them. Those are valid points. On the other hand: We are where we are. Where we are, is Vladimir Putin make some understandable miscalculations. One, he miscalculated America’s willingness to support foreign countries. After all, he had witnessed Joe Biden’s Afghanistan surrender debacle.
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Trump is thinking outside the Ukrainian box
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Inside the box, and the Beltway, the thinking all along has been that we must draw a line at Ukraine, else Putin and the barbarians will soon be on the steps of Warsaw and then Berlin and Paris.
Besides, Russian aggression and aggressors are morally bad. We owe it to posterity and civilization not to crumble before them.
Those are valid points. On the other hand:
We are where we are. Where we are, is Vladimir Putin make some understandable miscalculations.
One, he miscalculated America’s willingness to support foreign countries. After all, he had witnessed Joe Biden’s Afghanistan surrender debacle.
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