{"id":1373,"date":"2025-08-19T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:48:06","slug":"i-hope-im-wrong-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"I Hope I&#8217;m Wrong, But&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sorry, but I just don\u2019t buy the hype around Trump\u2019s \u201cdiplomacy\u201d to end the Russo-Ukrainian War. He\u2019s \u201crole-playing\u201d and enjoying every minute of it, reveling in the attention and adulation while he snickers in private about how Zelensky and the European allies kiss his fat posterior.<\/p>\n<p>The positive appraisal of yesterday\u2019s White House meeting is a spin about nothing. <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><em>The Wall Street<\/em> <em>Journal <\/em><\/a>never disappoints in its ability to twist reality into excuses for Republican orthodoxy; read \u201cTrump\u2019s Stunning Foreign Policy\u201d by Walter Russell Mead and the editorial \u201cTrump Gets Real on Ukraine&#8217;s Security,&#8221; August 19, 2025, and tell me that there is real substance there.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened yesterday is subject to change depending on whom Trump talks to last. The redline for a cease-fire disappeared after he talked with his pal Vladimir. Would you accept Trump\u2019s promise to guarantee Ukrainian security? Ask Trump\u2019s New York business associates if they would accept his IOU. Ask yourself also whether you believe Trump is really an honest broker; will he not defer to the Russians and sell out the Ukrainians to get a peace deal? He needs to be reminded that Neville Chamberlain never got the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget, by insisting that Zelensky work things out with Putin is like asking him to sit down with Hannibal Lector. There can be no trust, and the prospect of Ukraine being eaten by the Russian bear is frighteningly real.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me for being skeptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sorry, but I just don\u2019t buy the hype around Trump\u2019s \u201cdiplomacy\u201d to end the Russo-Ukrainian War. He\u2019s \u201crole-playing\u201d and enjoying every minute of it, reveling in the attention and adulation while he snickers in private about how Zelensky and the European allies kiss his fat posterior. 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