Thursday 26 September 2024

Trump is getting feistier about Zelensky giving nothing to Russia

Until now, all Donald Trump has said, over and over again, is that he would resolve the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of becoming president and that had he been president in 2022, Putin would never have invaded Ukraine in the first place. Neither statement is remotely checkable but it makes a good rallying call when he is campaigning and I experct a lot of people believe him. Now, however, he is turning against Zelensky, the Ukrainian pr4esident, who has done his best to turn from professional comedian to war leader since the invasion.Trump now openly blames Zelensky for failing to give anything to Putin, as if handing over part of your country's sovereign territory to your bully neighbour is a natural thing to do for any sensible leader. Had he surrendered territory to Putin there wouldn't have been all the deaths and destructions of cities, Trump is now saying. Well, I guess that's true. You could say the same about Hitler. If we had allowed him to take over Europe we wouldn't have had so many millions of deaths and countries ravaged by bombs and tanks. Sometimes, sacrifices have to be made for a better future. Assuming Trump has read about the Second World War, he should have come to that realisation. But in the case of Ukraine, his view is that Putin for some reason had a right to occupy large swathes of Ukraine and therefore Zelensky is somehow responsible for all the deaths and destroyed cities that have occurred since February 24, 2022. It's a pretty twisted argument, but if he becomes president, that is presumably what he plans to do. Give Putin what he wants and end the killings. But Putin, I suspect, won't listen to him and will carry on trying to destroy Ukraine whether he gets a territoprial concession from Zelensky or not. Then what will Trump do?

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