Trump trying to prevent World War III in Europe

 DC Daily Journal:

...

On Tuesday, President Trump raised the stakes, suggesting that Americans “could be” drawn into the Russia-Ukraine conflict if it balloons into “World War III.”

In a revealing sit-down with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle, the 78-year-old leader laid out his vision for de-escalation. “We want to get it over with,” Trump declared, signaling his impatience with the ongoing war.

Fresh from a nearly two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump welcomed Ingraham to the White House.

He shared that while Putin shot down his proposal for a full, unconditional cease-fire with Ukraine, the Russian leader did agree to halt strikes on “energy and infrastructure.”
...

The president didn’t shy away from the battlefield realities, noting Russia’s upper hand. “Russia has the advantage, as you know they have encircled about 2,500 [Ukrainian] soldiers,” he claimed.

“They’re nicely encircled and that’s not good.” Trump’s push for a cease-fire, he explained, is about keeping American boots off the ground in a conflict that could spiral out of control.

“Look, we’re doing this – there are no Americans involved. There could be if you end up in World War III over this, which is so ridiculous,” he reasoned.
...

Putin is reacting to his fear that Ukraine would join NATO and have Western troops at the gates of Moscow.  That is certainly not Trump's intention.  Ukraine's Zalenski plundered into this dilemma by suggesting that Ukraine would join the Western alliance which was established to block the Soviet threat to Europe.  While Russia is a much stronger power than Ukraine it has found that Ukraine is a much more difficult challenge than Putin expected.  Russia's conventional forces have largely failed to take out Zalensky's army.

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