Trump’s been just as warlike as his predecessors. From Spencer Neale at theamericanconservative.com:
Trump caves on Ukraine and looks the other way in Gaza.
So much for ending the Ukraine War in 24 hours.
It’s been six months since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president. On the campaign trail, Trump promised the American people that he would end the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine within 24 hours of assuming the presidency. He later amended that promise, claiming he would actually end the war before he even took office. When reporters inquired about his plan, what exactly he would do differently from President Joe Biden, Trump often argued that ending the war was a “very easy negotiation,” despite the reality that the United States is firmly stuck between a rock and a hard place in the region.
The truth is, Trump believed he would simply bowl over Putin with his words and his empty threats to “bomb the s*** out of Moscow” and that would be that. But Trump was wrong. The war continues.
In the six months since Trump began his second term in office he has hemmed and hawed and complained and lashed out against both Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. But his most recent volley came against Putin on Sunday evening during a brief meeting with reporters at Joint Base Andrews. Trump, who has resorted to pleading with Putin to end the war, accused the Russian leader of speaking “so beautifully” during the day while bombing Ukraine during the night. “I’m very disappointed with Putin,” admitted Trump.
“No one’s saying this can be done in 12 hours,” stated Secretary of State Marco Rubio in April. He’s technically right. After all, Trump said over and over again that it would take twice as long—24 hours, to be exact. But in reality, it’s been more than 4,000 hours since Trump was inaugurated for a second term, and in that time nothing the president has said to Putin has changed the course of the war. Perhaps it is we, the voters, who are to blame for believing such a promise. Twenty-four hours. Were we so naive?
With cameras rolling in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump reiterated that Putin “talks so beautifully” in private during the day and then continues his bombing campaign at night. “I go home, I tell the first lady, you know I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation,” Trump recounted. “She said, Oh, really? Another city was just hit.” Melania, the truth-teller.
Tell me more about the glorious victories?
Holy Rus will be around for a long time to come.