There’s a new sheriff in town, ladies and gents, one who doesn’t take well to international bullies — and one of those bullies has already changed his tune. Or at least, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin wants the world (and President Donald Trump) to think he has.
Speaking of peace with Ukraine, Putin said in the hours immediately following Trump’s swearing-in: “The goal should not be a temporary ceasefire, a short-term pause for regrouping forces and rearming to continue the conflict later, but a lasting peace based on respect for the legitimate interests of all people and nations living in the region.”
Those words don’t exactly jibe with Putin’s Biden-era dismissals of Ukraine’s sovereignty and right to exist as an independent nation.
Famously — or perhaps infamously, depending on who you ask — Trump claims to have kept the peace during his first administration by warning Putin, “We’re gonna hit Moscow” if he invaded Ukraine. Trump later told his golfing buddy, John Daly, that Putin “sort of believed me, like 5%, 10%,” but “that’s all you need.”
Once the bullets start flying, not to mention the drones, making peace is a helluva lot more difficult than merely maintaining it. Trump began that process within a week of his reelection last fall. […]
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