US has Become an Abusive 'Partner' and Must not have Veto Over Allies' Security - Silicon Curtain

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Edition No105 | 03-03-2025 - Is this clickbait? Is this Trump bashing, or TDS as some refer to it – Trump Derangement Syndrome. No, this is a cold analysis of what just happened in the Oval Office, and what its implications are for geopolitics and finding a way to end the war against Ukraine. Curiously over the last weeks I have been called a Trump appeaser in numerous comments, and in about the same volume, accused of loathing Trump and being irrationally opposed to him. This is the problem with his ‘fire-hose of falsehoods’ strategy to flood the zone, fill the media with sound and fury – ultimately it is obscuring the significance, the meaning of events, and masks the strategy behind the word salad. And there is a strategy. There definitely is, even though there is no clear or consistent plan from day to day to execute upon it.

Let’s lay my cards down now – the strategy is to end the war on Putin’s terms, because in Trump’s mind, might makes right, and he perceives Putin to be the stronger player. That means that Trump does not have a magic formula to end the war. He has not found some miraculous way to align the demands of Putin and needs Ukraine, because these are irreconcilable in their maximalist states. No, he expects Zelenskyy to capitulate, and for Russia to make no meaningful concessions. Capitulation and the evisceration of Ukraine is the only outcome of a process dictated by Trump. Zelensky understood, and he resisted that plan.