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nitrogendelving into the so-called anecdotes of his, Donald Trump can’t help himself At the World Economic Forum in Davos, he told his usual set of purportedly funny and inspiring stories to a bemused audience.
Just hours later, after agreeing a “future agreement framework” with NATO, he made a surprise U-turn and completely abandoned his latest tariff threat against Europe. People wonder if all the drama was worth it.
Regardless, the president took time out of his lengthy address to mention the war. Ukraine — a real and bloody conflict that stands in stark contrast to the unlikely conflict in Greenland. Specifically, the president mentioned tens of thousands of soldiers still being massacred every week as Vladimir Putin“Special Military Operations” has entered its fourth year.
There really isn’t any slack RussiaNow missile and drone attacks on civilians Targeting Kyiv and power generation With temperatures well below freezing. Electricity shortages affect everything—lighting, water supply, industry, transportation, and heating.
This amounts to nothing less than state terrorism orchestrated by the Kremlin, as undertrained and ill-equipped troops continue to make pitifully slow progress on the battlefield. Europe’s worst interstate conflict since World War II continues, as brutally as ever. That doesn’t provide an ideal backdrop for the White House to relaunch its peace efforts.
Trump said he hoped to meet with Zelensky for talks, although the Ukrainian leader left Davos earlier this week to return to Kyiv disappointed with the latest developments in U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Zelensky’s suspicions were and are correct.
Although Ukraine agreed to a U.S. ceasefire offer last March, President Putin found every reason to keep the fighting going and Reject any peaceful solution that is not favorable to Russia Ukraine still has vast swaths of territory that it has yet to conquer—even territory approved by the White House. However, Trump seems to insist that neither side is serious about ending the fighting and that they have taken turns rejecting a ceasefire, which is simply untrue.
For Putin, there’s always some excuse for refusing to make a deal, usually involving a tirade about why Ukraine isn’t even a real country with its own culture. The Russians believe Ukraine should belong to them, just as Trump believes Greenland belongs to the United States. Nothing Trump says or does in recent days is likely to change that position.
Still, President Trump’s peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Moscow for more discussions on advancing the U.S. peace plan without any hope of a sudden breakthrough.
Didn’t come after all Alaska Summit last AugustMr. Trump might have expected something in return for pulling President Putin out of the cold so openly and generously. President Trump is testing the outer boundaries of satire, even inviting accused war criminal Putin to join the Gaza Peace Council, a Trump vanity project. To be fair, he also asked President Zelensky to join the new agency, but Mr Zelensky refused, no doubt seeing this as a disheartening sign of how gullible and out of touch with reality Mr Trump is Probably about the Kremlin.
President Trump says Ukraine and Russia would be “stupid” not to sign his peace deal. However, he failed to notice how proactive and accommodating the Ukrainian side was and, even more sadly, how putting more pressure on President Putin would prompt him to end the war he started. Instead, Putin continues to be rewarded for his stubbornness, even as Mr. Trump Sometimes I get a little annoyed with him.
As it stands, Putin has achieved without much effort where previous Russian and Soviet leaders have failed, and has watched NATO unravel in an unbelievable way and speed.
The U.S. National Security Strategy released in November portrayed Europe as a greater threat to U.S. interests than Russia, and Trump once again raised the theme of “civilization erasure” in Davos. Although NATO remained united under the pressure of the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and decades of the Cold War, Mr. Trump casually took it apart.
If Putin had time to watch President Trump’s speech, he would have been delighted to hear the US President say that NATO has done nothing for the US, and that he does not believe that Europeans and Canadians would support the US if it requested aid (contrary to their painful experience after 9/11, of course).
The belated U-turn was both sudden and welcome, but Mr Trump still showed he was willing to shake the foundations of the Western alliance. That’s quite a legacy for an American president.