The Ukraine Blues

The Big Z is as clueless as a seal pup who waves a Polar Bear over.

- President Trump believes the $175 billion that the Biden administration has sent to Ukraine is not money well spent.  He thinks that battered country is not trying hard enough to get a ceasefire deal.

- Mr. Trump and every single person in his administration knows Ukraine cannot defeat Putin on the battlefield so Zelensky has no bargaining power whatsoever.

- In addition, the President wants to placate Putin to a certain extent to get him away from the China orbit. Trump sees massive problems ahead if Putin and Xi partner up to hurt the USA.

- And finally, President Trump has no emotion invested in Ukraine.  In that, he's like President Obama when bad Vlad kidnapped Crimea.

Now, I am not arguing right and wrong here.  Putin's a world class monster.  Donald Trump is not going to change his mind.

Knowing all that, it was simply foolish for Zelensky to publicly disagree with the man who controls his country's destiny.  Any dissent should have been privately discussed.  By challenging Trump and J.D. Vance publicly, Zelensky loses.  Perhaps everything.  NATO will quickly lose his phone number if Trump bails.

When things cool down, a deal may surface but Trump will call the shots.  Bad Vlad, of course, is a winner here and that's a very bad thing.

But Putin has damaged Russia in a huge way and still needs a deal.  So, one might happen.

But it won't be Volodymyr getting the credit.  In fact, he'll be lucky to keep his job.  Ukrainians cannot be happy even if morality is on their side.

We live in an unfair world where power rules.

Zelensky just found that out the hard way.