One trick ponies and Russia is about to throw in the towel.
KYIV — President Donald Trump threatened new sanctions against Russia after a brief meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday. The meeting between the two leaders came amid a Ukrainian diplomatic blitz to head off a U.S. proposal to end the war with Russia on terms favorable to Moscow. In a post on his social media site, Trump criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for recent missile attacks on civilian areas in Ukraine, his second rebuke of the Russian leader since a missile struck an apartment building in Kyiv on Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding nearly 90 others. “It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions’?" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Too many people are dying!!!”
As you all know, sanctions against Russia have been extremely effective and left Russian economy in tatters, you know. About "too many people dying" Trump should have been thinking in 2017 when his admin greenlighted a serious rearming and reshaping VSU for future war against Russia. As is stated ad nauseam about wanting "to stop the war"--Russia is achieving, as she stated she would, military-political objectives of SMO. The whole idea of sanctions at this stage is risible.
Meanwhile, Garland sent me yesterday this "opinion" by Marc Thiessen:
President Donald Trump’s administration is negotiating trade deals with as many as 75 countries to increase their purchase of U.S.-made goods, according to the White House. Well, one country that is champing at the bit to purchase American goods is Ukraine, which has proposed to buy $50 billion worth of U.S.-made weapons to deter Russia. Trump should approve that arms sale as part of a final peace deal. A weapons sale would advance his goals of ending the war while creating good manufacturing jobs for American workers and strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base.
Mind you, this is the guy who wouldn't understand the first thing about war despite this CV.
He is a neocon shill tied to American Enterprise Institute--a collection of morons with credentials pushing for all kinds of pseudo-strategic BS without understanding the fact that far from being a significant sum of money for real war ($50 billion), the US has ZERO military capability it can provide even for $500 billion which can change any outcome in 404. But for that, one has to have basic understanding of military affairs and what COFM is and how it is calculated. BA in political pseudo-science is not a good foundation for venturing into any kind of strategic decision making, even after attending the US Naval War College. You all saw, on the example of Sarah Paine--a professor of "strategy", no less--that their understanding of "strategy" is as my understanding of colonoscopy, or string theory when it comes to math apparatus in it. We are looking at the sheer catastrophe and implosion of American military expertise on the institutional level. It cannot be saved without it admitting that what is being presented as strategy is nothing more than a collection of palliative narratives. In normal human language--a pile of steaming shit.
