Despite denouncing the bloodshed on the ground, Trump seemed to be allowing his Russian counterpart to drag out the conflict.
Donald Trump was optimistic that he could facilitate a ceasefire with one phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead, Trump seems to have bought the dictator even more time to continue his brutal war in Ukraine.
While Trump has repeatedly said that only he could produce a breakthrough via one-on-one talks with Putin, he has failed thus far to sway the Russian leader to make any substantive change.
In an op-ed Monday for The Washington Post, Max Boot — a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations — said that for all of Trump’s boasts of being a master dealmaker “in the face of Russian intransigence, he keeps violating the prime rule of successful negotiating: You must apply leverage.”
“Putin is playing him for a fool, and Trump doesn’t even seem to realize it,” Boot added.
Ignore what Trump says, watch what Trump does. Putin owns Trump, and nothing Trump has done contradicts that in the least.
The problem is that he only wants to end it in a way that favors Putin.
This ought to be clear to everybody by now.He also thinks he’s the only one who can bring peace because he was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize. He’s still chasing that high
Well, Putin told him that he’s special, so…
It’s like watching a toddler saying he’ll put out the fire with a bucket of gasoline
oh you mean Trump is full of shit like usual?
He simply was dumb enough to believe he could ignore reality. Didn’t work, as always.
