There are real world problems for the Trump Administration to deal with. Not the crazy ones they made for themselves; like creating an American Gestapo force to terrorize folks who might be migrants. Or other \u201cauthoritarian\u201d stuff: like trying to rig the 2026 Congressional elections by stealing seats in Texas and other \u201cRed\u201d states; or, of course, the fumbled EPSTEIN FILES!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, they are really blowing it, in the area that Donald Trump supposedly has the \u201cmost\u201d authority. The two world leaders who supposedly were Trump\u2019s \u201cbest buddies\u201d, are thumbing their nose at the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Start with Vladimir Putin. He\u2019s perfectly happy to have the President of the United States fly to Moscow to have a \u201cchat\u201d. But there\u2019s a reason why Heads of State don\u2019t just \u201cchat\u201d. When the President goes to talk to another leader, there\u2019s usually months of preparation and agreements beforehand so that both look good. There needs to be a \u201cdeal\u201d and a \u201chandshake\u201d that has some meaning. And Trump sees himself as the \u201cGreat Deal Maker\u201d. But there\u2019s no agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s why Biden wouldn\u2019t meet with Putin.\u00a0\u00a0There was no \u201cdeal on the table\u201d, nothing to shake hands about.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Biden didn\u2019t need to do what George Bush did:\u00a0\u00a0\u201c\u2026I\u00a0looked the man in the eye. I found him very straightforward and trustworthy \u2013 I was able to get a sense of his sou<\/em>l”. Biden knew Putin wasn\u2019t straightforward or trustworthy; just a soul-less brutal dictator willing to kill his opponents and sacrifice his countrymen for his own dreams of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meat grinder in Ukraine continues, with the gallant Ukrainians holding their own against the Russian machine. Hundreds of thousands have died on both sides (more Russian than Ukrainian), and Putin hasn\u2019t demonstrated any interest in stopping. Sham negotiations with Trump are useless, the United States needs to weigh back in on the Ukrainian side of the conflict. Only then will Putin see the futility in his actions. Despite George Bush\u2019s observation, there is no \u201csoul\u201d in his eyes, just lust in his heart to re-build the Soviet Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So Trump is going to Moscow, and Putin will use the trip to make himself looks \u201cacceptable\u201d to the world, and the mass killing in Ukraine will go on. Trump will look like he did in Helsinki so many years ago: used and abused by Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And talk about a \u201cbuddy\u201d. Trump is so close to Netanyahu that the man is the godfather to his son-in-law, Jared. Trump and Netanyahu shared the ultimate benefactor, billionaire Sheldon Adelson from Las Vegas. And the two shared a similar problem; ongoing court actions that could put either one of them in jail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Netanyahu even named an illegal settlement (violating standing treaties) in the occupied Golan Heights after Trump, \u201cRamat Trump\u201d. He knows how to \u201cschmooze\u201d the American leader. But he also knows how to ignore the Trump White House. Today Israel is poised to send occupation troops back into Gaza, to ultimately take over the entire enclave. It\u2019s the end of the \u201ctwo-state\u201d solution, pursued by America for the past half-century, and a true \u201cmiddle finger\u201d to the United States efforts to establish a cease-fire in the region. That middle finger is going right in Trump\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, of course, if thousands of Palestinians in Gaza starve to death along the way, it\u2019s no problem for Netanyahu.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, it seems like Israeli national policy, obliteration of the Palestinian state, and its people. The greatest achievement of the first Trump Administration was the vaunted Abrahamic Accords; getting the Arab states to reach full diplomatic relations with Israel.\u00a0\u00a0Today, Netanyahu is obliterating that as well.\u00a0\u00a0And there doesn\u2019t seem like anything that Trump is willing to do about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration is blowing it. Sure, we dropped really, really, really big bombs on Iran. And they certainly did some damage, though the \u201cobliteration\u201d standard Trump touted probably wasn\u2019t achieved. Those bombings probably served everyone\u2019s interests: the Israelis, the Saudis and the other Middle Eastern states, the United States and NATO. But in the end, it simply put the Iranian nuclear question on the back burner for a while \u2013 nothing was finally solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Putin and Netanyahu will continue to do exactly as they want \u2013 because they don\u2019t believe the Trump Administration will do anything about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They\u2019re both probably right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared\u2019s Godfather<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Obliteration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n