Trump-Putin to discuss war in Europe

 Newsmax:

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to oblige Vladimir Putin to talk war and peace soon, saying ending the war was "one of the things I want to do and quickly."

"President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible," Trump told Turning Point Action's America Fest speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday in a speech that aired on Newsmax and the free Newsmax2 streaming platform. "So we have to wait for this.

"But we have to end that war. That war is a horrible, horrible, the soldiers, the number of soldiers being killed."

Trump repeated his claim Russia and Putin would have never invaded Ukraine if he were president, hailing his best-selling hat that declares "Trump was right about everything."

"I saw it yesterday for the first time, and it's selling like hotcakes: It says, 'Trump was right about everything,'" Trump said. "And I don't want to brag, but we were right about just about everything, including foreign policy, these crazy wars that we're in."

Also, Hamas would have never attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Trump added.

"Got to stop it. It's ridiculous — would have never happened if I was president; that war would have never happened, and Oct. 7, Israel would have never happened either," Trump said. "So much of our country would be so different and the world would be so different. But it's not. So we have to make it great, and we're going to make it great.
...

I suspect Trump is probably right that the wars never would have started, since they clearly did not during his four years in office.  But ending them may be difficult.  The bloodshed already makes it hard for the two sides to compromise. 

Hamas is just a shell of what it was before it started the war with Israel.  If they don't agree to a deal they will be utterly destroyed the way the Nazis were.  The Ukraine war will probably be more difficult to settle.  However, the casualties of the Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian defenders have been significant.  I believe Putin started that war because he feared that Ukraine would join NATO.  The question is would Putin withdraw his troops if Trump agrees not to make Ukraine a member of NATO?  Putin does appear eager to talk with Trump about ending the war.

See also:

Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin wants a meeting as soon as possible about the war with Ukraine

...

 “President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,” Trump said during his remarks at Turning Point’s America Fest convention. “So we have to wait for this, but we have to end that war. That war is horrible, horrible.”

...

And:

 Putin: Joe Biden Is Corrupt, Unpresidential… and Less Honorable than Stalin!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Washington Post: Some Democrats eye adding more justices to the Supreme Court to change its ideological bent The once-remote idea has gained the attention of liberals angered by the GOP push to remake the federal courts. Probably the easy way to defeat this court-packing scheme is for Trump to propose doing the same thing now.  It would lead to Democrat denunciations and claims that it would be wrong, thereby blowing up any attempt by them in the unfortunate event of Democrats winning a presidential election.
Read more

29 % of companies say they are unlikely to keep insurance after Obamacare

Conn Carroll: A new survey of 368 midsize to large companies found that 29% of them are considering terminating their active employee health care plans when Obamacare is full implemented in 2014. Only 71% of employers surveyed said they did not expect to drop their health coverage, while 20% said they did not know and 9% said they were planning to exit. The latest survey, conducted by Towers Watson, echoes an ealier survey by McKinsey & Co. finding that 30% of private-sector employers were planning to drop their employee health insurance coverage by 2014. When the Congressional Budget Office crunched Obamacare's spending numbers, they estimated that only 7% of employees currently covered by employer-sponsored plans would lose their plans. ... This means the cost of the health care fiasco will be hundreds of billions more than estimated by the CBO and Congressional Democrat. It is also clear that Obama's pledge that you could keep your health care plan if you wanted t...
Read more

Is the F-35 obsolete?

Headline USA: Pentagon Fires Back after Musk Calls Its Most Expensive Project ‘Obsolete’ 'Yeah, as I'm sure you can appreciate, Mr. Musk is, currently, a private citizen, I'm not going to make any comments about what a private citizen may have to say about the F-35....'   ... ... Drones appear to be replacing jets for many operations.  The Russia-Ukraine war is an example of that.  Drones are often hard to detect and can be used for intelligence operations as well as for attacking enemy targets.  It would not surprise me to see drones engaging other drones in combat.  They also cost much less than manned fighters.  
Read more