🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 Trump is treating Europe like a fading asset and Ukraine like an annoyance he would rather walk away from. The good times he remembers with Putin in Anchorage look better every week that Zelensky keeps calling for more Patriots and more cash.
In a conversation with Brandon Weichert, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski argued that Trump has always viewed NATO and the EU as losers who refuse to pay their share and never deliver when he needs them. She sees him as dismissive of the whole European project, especially after the U.S. locked in higher gas prices for the continent.
She said Putin knows exactly how to speak to Trump… with respect and the language of power. Zelensky, by contrast, has become a constant demand machine whose usefulness has expired. The war itself is what keeps Zelensky in place. End it, elections follow, and he is gone.
Trump has multiple off-ramps already on paper, including the memorandum he signed, yet he keeps failing to use them. Either he cannot grasp the options or the people around him prefer the current path. That path, in her view, is less about victory than about reshaping an empire that is writing off Europe and the Middle East while trying to stay focused on Asia.
Trump was elected on the promise that America would stop putting its thumb on other people’s scales. He has not delivered. The system around him keeps extracting and protecting itself.
When accountability disappears and those who are ruled are treated as useless eaters, all that remains is for the whole house to collapse... ballroom included!
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