How would a potential once again president, Donald Trump, resolve these issues? IMO, Trump wouldn't have continued to "blackball" Putin on the Global political stage. Not to suggest that we'd become allies, but he would have attempted to bring Russia into alignment against China, who has designs on Siberian resources (in addition to long-term border disputes)..
Face some facts here.. during the Trump administration, Democrats were hell-bent upon pushing their "Russia, Russia, Russia" FAKE narrative asserting Putin was meddling in our elections and that Trump was some kind of Russia Spy.. FAKE Steel Dossier..
And they did this while essentially being Bejing's political "pole smoker".. (Fang-Fang, Hunter representing a Chicom spy chief and his daddy getting 10%, Diane Feinstein's Chinese spy employee.. etc, etc, etc).. Collusion on Gain of Function experimentation with the ChiComs..
It's pretty clear, from Bejing's perspective, that it's in their interest to prevent any form of reconciliation between Russia and the West. That leaves Putin little recourse but to draw closer to China.
So what does Putin have to do to win some respect from the West? Brinksmanship over Ukraine.
But I also believe that Putin realizes that a complete takeover of Ukraine will be a losing policy.. He'll wind up engaged in the Mother of all anti-Russian insurgencies, fueled by western arms to Ukrainian resistance, if only based upon the historical hatred between Ukrainians and Russians over the Holomodor.. (1930's intentional starvation that killed 25% of Ukraine's population)..
I certainly don't believe Trump would have said the things Biden said during his horrible presser the other day.
There have got to be some "carrots" offered to Putin. And one of them is a promise that Ukraine will not be permitted to become a NATO member.. with the caveat that the West also has a vested interest in preserving Ukraine's sovereignty under UN articles.
Biden is a weakling, and pretty much controlled by the former Obama administration.
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