The Europeans are trying not to allow Trump to come to terms with Putin, but there’s no way Trump will fight a war for them against Russia. From Leo Hohmann at leohohmann.substack.com:
If a deal is struck, it will not lead to a lasting peace because Europe’s leaders have it in their heads that their continued existence as a global power depends on Russia’s strategic defeat.
Don’t be fooled by all the positioning and repositioning by America’s European “partners” with regard to the Russia-Ukraine war.
A lot has been said over the last week about how much all the parties involved want peace. Whether it’s Trump, Putin, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer, Meloni or Merz, they all claim to want the killing to stop.
But actions speak louder than words. Remember that old saying, money talks and B.S. walks?
As a journalist I learned long ago to follow the money. And I don’t see any real desires to permanently settle the score between Russia and Ukraine. Trump may want to end it but he’s kidding himself if he thinks he can. Why? Because he owes too many political favors to neocons in his own party, for whom priority number one is continuing to escalate the war with Russia. War is what makes them money and keeps them in office. It keeps them in office by enriching their donors.
At the end of the day, this is a border war between two Slavic countries. But instead of treating it as such, the collective West has been building it into a triggering mechanism for World War III. If we take him at his word, Trump seems to want to avoid World War III, but he’s rowing against the tide. All the momentum of the last four or five years has been in the direction of global war and it all boils down to economics. Be wary of commentators who always attempt to explain the world in strictly ideological terms. They will always leave you confused and deceived. It’s about power and money, and who gets to drive that money into which bank accounts.
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