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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (356990)	12/11/2025 12:40:31 PM
From: Steve Lokness	2 Recommendations Recommended By John Koligman Sam Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357267

<<<It is difficult to see how we can improve this situation by getting involved.>>>> hey, it was your guy who promised to end the war on day one. ........Now you suggest we let it play out?

To: i-node who wrote (356990)	12/12/2025 8:57:32 AM
From: Alighieri	5 Recommendations Recommended By CentralParkRanger John Koligman Mannie Steve Lokness Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357267

In this case, Trump is "letting it cook" for a while with the hope Zelensky will slowly come to terms with his situation and realize he needs to settle with Putin. In the meanwhile, the war of attrition is biting at Russia and significantly weakens it without USA playing a substantial role. It is difficult to see how we can improve this situation by getting involved. Let these two exhaust themselves. I cannot think of happier thoughts than a depleted Russia. Trump, like the rest of us, remembers Russia's blunder of taking on Afghanistan. Sun Tsu: "Supreme excellence is breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting". Hard to know where to start on this mess of a post. First you suggest that Trump's "strategy" is clever, because it basically consists of hoping that Zelensky settle with Russia, meaning cede territory, presumably on the assumption that it's good enough for Putin, ignoring the fact that this criminal has been carrying out decades of violent territorial grabbing toward its former USSR satellites. Can you see the road ahead here? Can you think back to Europe 1930s as a distinct possibility? Then you support your argument by example with the Russian defeat in Afghanistan, when American weapon support for the resistance there was instrumental in that defeat and soon thereafter led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Incongruous, contradictory logic. I understand...it's a tough job defending incompetence and corruption...but don't quit...you demonstrate to the rest of us a good example of the right's dangerous ignorance. Al