HOW TRUMP 'GETS OUT' OF UKRAINE.....

This article from Peoples World - the press organ of the Communist Party of the USA - outlines precisely what Trump is trying to do with the Ukraine war - he wants to wash his hands of it. Trump is an idiot - but he knows the war is lost. If you follow the conflict in detail with the daily reports you see this. (See U-Tubes Military Summary Channel or Willy OAM - the most objective coverage)

'Europe' and particularly the Baltic states are going ballistic precisely because they know that they are losing and feel threatened with their politics generated by hate and fear. So they are looking to beef up a new 'Iron Curtain'. Russia will accept this. It doesn't 'face' Europe any more. It faces Eurasia.

The rest of the world and most politicians in Europe understand this. When the appallingly stupid Kaja Kallas recently addressed the EU Parliament there only 6 people were in the Chamber. 

The problem we have is that the current manufactured group of European politicians are weak and lack any strategic grasp. They don't know what to do. They are in panic. 


'Trump’s supposed change in perspective on the war, highlighted by his statement that Ukraine is now winning and can finally score victory—with the help of Europe, but not the U.S.—is nothing more than an excuse to wash his hands of what is, for the U.S., a losing proposition...... 

 Trump’s flip-flopping on the Ukraine War—laying out a red carpet for Putin one week and then praising Zelensky the next—is not simply a case of a man who doesn’t know what he’s doing. The shift reflects the very difficult position U.S. imperialism is in after pursuing a dangerous and lost cause for so many years in eastern Europe.

When the Soviet Union dissolved the Warsaw Pact military partnership 35 years ago, the U.S. should have begun dissolving NATO. Instead, it violated agreements and expanded its war alliance, with Ukraine envisioned as the crown jewel of its anti-Russia bloc.

The failure of this strategy helps explain Trump’s about-face after he met with Zelensky last week. He is mired in a mess and needs a way out. The press says he has provided no rationale for his turnaround, but that’s because the only rationale that could be honestly offered is that the U.S. should never have supported the coup in 2014 in Ukraine and should never have tried to use that country as the ground for a proxy war.

This summer, Trump hosted Putin in Alaska, and now he sounds as if he is on Ukraine’s side. The most telling thing about what is really going on, however, was when he said, “I wish both countries well.”




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