It was bound to happen.
Volodymyr Zelensky says he’s looking out for what’s best for Ukrainians. Vladimir Putin says he’s looking out for what’s best for Russians. The bloody status quo continues.
Once Donald Trump decided to look out for what’s best for Americans, however, the Oval Office meltdown was only a matter of time.
Naturally, European leaders applauded Zelensky for standing up to Trump in Washington. Perhaps it’s time to let their ‘coalition of the willing’ stand up to Putin as well. After all, it is their continent.1 Yet if history is any guide, they won’t—they will demand that we do it for them.
Which is why they and their neocon brethren back in the States never fret about ‘fighting the last war.’ They’re all for expending more blood and treasure—as long as it belongs to someone else. Maybe pseudo-Senator Chris Murphy could tell us about his family on the ground in Eastern Europe battling his newfound Russian nemesis.
Indeed, the Connecticut politician is the tip of a Democrat Party spear that was conspicuously AWOL during a real Cold War Ronald Reagan was winning. And that’s what Trump intuitively understands—we won that bipolar battle so why start another? Especially if it could lead to nuclear armageddon.
Poking a hollowed-out and desperate Russian bear may not bother the ‘uniparty,’ but flirting with WWIII sure did worry President Dwight D. Eisenhower (who knew a little bit about the subject) when he was urged to consider a nuclear exchange in a proxy war in Korea.
“You boys must be crazy,” was the General’s response.2