Trump pivoting from peace to war with Russia in Ukraine

 

Trump pivoting from peace to war with Russia in Ukraine

A hundred days into his pledge to end the Russo Ukraine war in one day, Trump is banging the war drums instead.

That didn’t take long. Trump is walking away from his pledge to walk away from the war both he and his predecessor Biden provoked.

He told Meet The Press Sunday he’ll support Sen. Lindsey Graham’s drastic anti Russian sanctions bill because Russia “wants all of Ukraine”. He also said Russia must give back all captured Ukraine land.

The first statement is utterly false. Russia was prepared to end the war in the first 2 months taking no Ukraine land if Ukraine would reject NATO membership and give peace and autonomy to the Donbas where Kyiv had been slaughtering the Donbas separatists with US weapons. When the US and NATO rejected that proposal to weaken/defeat Russia, the war of Eastern Ukraine annexation in Donbas was full on.

Ever since, Russia has been seeking the war’s end involving no more Ukraine territory besides the Donbas and a buffer zone to prevent future long range Ukraine missile attacks. For the past 3 years US/Ukraine refusal to end it on those terms ensures the buffer zone increases every day.

Trump’s second statement is delusional. Saying Russia must give back every square mile of captured territory will never happen. It implies that Trump will not end the war to prevent more lost territory, but continue to support it till the Ukraine military collapses and capitulates.

Maybe Trump was expressing mental disintegration when he offered those unhinged war like warnings. Maybe he still seeks a peaceful settlement but does not want to appear like a weak loser to the US national security state seeking Russia’s destruction. Maybe he’s simply buying time till Ukraine folds so he can argue he never gave up seeking an impossible victory.

But the very fact he’s pivoting from promoting peace to continuing the war does not bode well for Ukraine, the US, indeed the world still kept hostage to this war’s four yearlong nuclear threat.