Doping out Trump’s latest ultimatum to Russia, there’s even less than meets the eye. From Moon of Alabama at moonofalabama.org:
On July 3 U.S. President Donald Trump had a phonecall with the Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation:
President Donald Trump revealed the details of his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
Trump told reporters before he boarded Air Force One for an “America 250” rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, “We had a call, it was a pretty long call, we talked about a lot of things, including Iran. We also talked about the war with Ukraine.”
Trump shook his head and said, “I’m not happy about that,” as the president remarked about the ongoing war he hoped to quickly end.
“No, I didn’t make any progress with him today,” Trump said when asked about a potential deal with Putin to end the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
Trump wanted to pause the war In Ukraine while Putin sees an advantage for Russian troops in the field and wants to continue the war until its root cause, the NATO march towards Russia, is eliminated.
Trump could not get his will. He was also under pressure from neoconservative parts of Congress to commit the U.S. to a longer war against Russia. They asked for shipping more weapons to Ukraine and for penalties against countries which continue to buy oil and gas from Russia.
Remeber when Michelle Bachman ate the corn dog at the state fair? So HOT.
A big kitschy hecho en China MAGA hat for all.
We can vote our way out of decades of Long March?
Honk, honk.
At least the youth are registered with Selective Service for their convenience and I can’t wait for the NATOstan EU riots when the magic draft word gets mentioned.