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Foreign Affairs What Can Trump Achieve With Russia–Ukraine? Trump’s rhetoric on Russia leaves something to be desired, but reflects a real lack of leverage. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The conventional wisdom is that President Donald Trump is far more critical of Ukraine’s government than he is of Russia’s while trying to end the war between the two countries. It’s not an entirely unfair criticism. Trump’s social media posts threatening stepped-up sanctions against Russia or telling the Russian President Vladimir Putin to “STOP” his attacks on Ukraine understandably received less attention than his memorable Oval Office showdown with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump has often failed to describe Russia as the aggressor, other complexities in Moscow–Kiev relations since the end of the Cold War notwithstanding, and could stand to be seen pressuring Putin.  But on closer inspection, Trump has often talked tougher with the government he currently sees as the primary obstacle to a peace deal ending the war in Ukraine. “I can tell you what the president said last night and that is he is frustrated with leaders on both sides of this war,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier this month. “He wants this war to end. There are men that are dying on both sides and it’s been going on for far too long.” Some might treat this as moral equivalence or another iteration of “very fine people on both sides.” But there are valid reasons other than those offered in the standard Trump-Russia fearmongering to tread lightly. An important part of these negotiations is about trying to get Russia to quit while it’s ahead.  Putin isn’t easily movable by moral suasion. One of his key advantages in this war has been that he is by all appearances the least concerned about the death toll, Ukrainian or Russian, of all interested parties. Russia has a history of tolerating high casualties among its troops, which Ukraine cannot (and should not) match. Yet it is Putin, as the most dedicated Ukraine hawks often remind us, who must be prevailed upon to stop the killing. Russia also knows that Trump doesn’t want to fund Ukraine indefinitely, as the former President Joe Biden seemed willing to do (and even he may have had his limits). Trump also doesn’t want to expose the United States to the risk of a wider war. All this is why peace is possible and Russia is more or less at the table. But it also creates the possibility of Putin waiting Washington out. (The Trump administration has also made clear that talks can’t go on forever.) The basic framework of the peace deal Trump is attempting to secure is simply a recognition of reality. Ukraine cannot for the foreseeable future win back much of the territory it lost in the war—and especially before the current war—or join NATO. Russia cannot realistically take much more Ukrainian territory than it already has, but it can inflict much more death and destruction trying.  This may not be a morally and emotionally satisfying outcome, though it need not be a permanent one. It may, depending on the precise terms of any agreement, be the most efficacious way to save Ukrainian lives right now, even if better diplomacy in 2021 would have been preferable. Trump spoke of trying to get back as much Ukrainian territory as possible just before the White House meeting with Zelensky went awry. Security guarantees for Ukraine, even if short of NATO membership, will be a critical detail of any deal. The Ukrainians rightly want to ensure that Russia won’t simply invade again in a few months or years. But the idea that any of this can happen with zero elements that are attractive to Russia (we have tragically established that sparing Russian troops’ lives will not be enough) is implausible or that the usual Trumpian war of words, but directed at Putin rather than Zelensky, will be helpful seems impossible. (The limits of Trump’s verbal abuse, especially as a negotiating tool, is something his political opponents would recognize in almost any other context.) Sadly, many Americans find it difficult to separate their views of the war in Ukraine from how they feel about Trump. But if there is no viable path to Ukraine winning the war, the mayhem can only be ended through an agreement between both sides.  If that cannot happen in the not too distant future, “frustrating” would be an understatement.  The post What Can Trump Achieve With Russia–Ukraine? appeared first on The American Conservative.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Democrat who once lived in the White House is now pretending to fear the very policies they helped pioneer. This week’s installment? Michelle Obama—the woman who spent eight years riding in Air Force One, dancing with Jimmy Fallon, and planting kale in the White House garden—now claims she lies awake at night fretting that Donald Trump might deport people of color.  Please. Let’s cut through the coddled, media-fed hysteria and hit some...

President Trump’s sagging poll numbers as he hits his 100th day in office are becoming a concern for Republicans, who have been steadfastly loyal to the White House but are starting to look ahead to the midterm elections.  While the White House is not expressing concern about Trump’s downward trajectory in the polls, Republican operatives say Trump needs to stop with the turbulence on tariffs and focus on fulfilling the promises he made as a presidential candidate on the economy....

White House officials have boasted that more than a dozen countries have put offers “on the table” to avoid the biting tariffs scheduled to kick in in just over two months — a sign President Donald Trump’s risky trade gambit is paying off. But the documents other countries have submitted to the White House are far from final offers, according to a dozen foreign diplomats and three officials, granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive conversations. Rather, they are preliminary outlines of...

He’s correct in questioning the Covid-19 vaccine’s inclusion on the schedule for children. My criticism of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, has been public for many years and is no secret. Kennedy has not been a science-based policymaker, before or after his confirmation to the Trump cabinet. His proposed policies since becoming the head of HHS have been no better, as he continues to follow his own personal agendas instead of following the science and...

On the 2024 campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to launch a massive overhaul of the federal government if reelected president, and, he said, change would come fast. To be sure, Trump’s first 100 days have seen a frenetic pace of change. But while Trump has boasted that some have called it “the most successful 100 days in the history of our country,” his agenda has also been challenged in the courts and by other economic and political realities. Here, we look at a half dozen...

Dr. Vernon Coleman takes us on a trip down memory lane.  He has republished the transcript for a video released on 2 July 2020.  It demonstrates that what has happened from 2020 […] The post They’re Going to Starve Us and Freeze Us to Death first appeared on The Expose.

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