Media reports<\/a> Trump told Zelinsky, “Accept Putins terms or be destroyed.” <\/p>\n\n\n\nTrump denies he said it. That’s too bad. It’s the correct answer and should have been given nine months ago. End the killing. Surrender. Live to fight another day. <\/p>\n
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Gonna disagree with Joe there. \u00a0<\/p>\n
It won’t end the killing. \u00a0It’ll just defer it ’til Putin, encouraged rather than sated by the western cave-in, decides to go after Estonia, counting on a NATO that’s too weak to do anything about it and too cowed to risk getting nuked. \u00a0 NATO doesn’t have the conventional force to resist, and the US doesn’t have the ability to move enough troops to Europe in a hurry to be any kind of deterrent in the near term. \u00a0<\/p>\n
And when, not if, NATO caves on Estonia, then come Latvia, Lithuania, and the other nearly-disarmed NATO countries. \u00a0 Finland and Poland would be tougher nuts to crack, but neither can really do much to the Russians either. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Now you might say “not our circus, not our monkeys”. \u00a0 Maybe you’re right (although I disagree). \u00a0But I think it’s wishful thinking that giving up in Ukraine will do more than validate Putin to do more. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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