It’s nothing more than a protection racket.
There’s a lot of bullshit in that interview but this is the nut:
The president knows that if you want a real security guarantee, if you want to ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years.
Let’s take that last part first, shall we? The NATO countries have been fighting alongside America troops for the past 23 years in all of our foreign adventures in the middle east. Maybe JD doesn’t consider those real wars but if he doesn’t then the US hasn’t been fighting any of them either. No, it’s just a straight up insult to the Europeans, a slap in the face and he knew exactly what he was saying.
But the first part really gives away the game. He’s basically saying that unless Ukraine gives Trumpie a nice taste, he’s going to let them be killed by the Russians. In fact, if you look at what they’ve been doing the last few days with the stopping of arms shipments, the refusal to share intel and apparently the talking behind the scenes with some Ukrainians (and Russia?) to topple Zelensky, I think it’s fair to say that he’s now helping the Russians outright.
This is a protection racket. Give us money and we’ll “protect you.” If not, something bad might happen to your little country and there won’t be anything we can do about it. In this case, Trump’s obviously working with the Russians to get Ukraine to surrender so they can split the spoils.
And I don’t care how much “raw earth” as Trump calls it Ukraine signs over, it’s now obvious that America’s word isn[t worth the paper it’s printed on. We are not an ally, we are only in it for ourselves and that could mean anything. So anyone who’s been depending on the US had better find another way to protect themselves. In fact, they’d better find themselves a way to protect themselves from us.
The Thug strategy in action:
Trump has repeatedly proposed that if Canada wants to avoid the tariffs they should consider joining the United States as its ’51st state’.
White House Press Secretary was asked about the issue during her Wednesday briefing.
‘He feels strongly that it would be very beneficial for the Canadian people to be the 51st state of the United States,’ she said. ‘They wouldn’t be paying for these tariffs.
‘They’d have much lower taxes if they were part of our great country.’
People are saying that he’s just employing Nixon’s madman theory which was designed to make people think he might be so nuts enough to drop a nuke so they’d better be willing to negotiate. The problem is that Trump’s actually a madman. And while Nixon wasn’t exactly a picture of stability at least he was an ignoramus.
By the way, that Truth Social post Trump issued today threatening Hamas with annihilation if they don’t immediately release the hostages? Well:
Direct talks between the US and Hamas have hit a snag since their existence was leaked to the media on Wednesday, a government official briefed on the talks told The Times of Israel.
The negotiations — unprecedented in nature — have largely been focused on securing the release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander along with the bodies of American-Israelis Itay Chen, Omer Neutra, Gadi Haggai and Judi Weinstein, the official said.
Israel was not fully briefed on the talks ahead of time, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unhappy with their existence, the official said. The premier’s office issued a terse statement following an Axios report revealing the existence of the first-ever direct talks between the US and Hamas, saying, “Israel has expressed to the United States its position regarding direct talks with Hamas.”
Who cares what they think, amirite?