Trump Is Only Western Statesman Who Wants Peace
Over the last quarter of a century, the West has become a really weird place in which virtue signaling has almost completely replaced actual virtue in the public forum, and the most brutal sentimentality has largely replaced genuine feeling. For years in the West, we have been strangely bereft of real men in public affairs—the sort of guys who emanate the natural authority that comes from competence and from habitually choosing to be governed by reason instead of emotion.
Because of Trump’s somewhat checkered past and bombastic personal style, he has struck many as an improbable character to take on the mantle of a strong and wise man who will lead mankind out a dark time of childish and destructive folly.
However, as far I as I can see, he appears to be doing just that with respect to the Russian-Ukraine catastrophe. This morning I read reports of Secretary of State Rubio’s meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia. The following bit jumped out at me:
Russia wants Nato to disavow 2008 promise to Ukraine
Russia wants Nato to disavow its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of the US-led military alliance, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Nato membership for Ukraine is unacceptable for Russia but a simple refusal to accept Ukraine into the alliance is also not enough either, a spokesman said.
“It is worth noting that a refusal to accept Kyiv into Nato is not enough,” a spokesman said. “The alliance must disavow the Bucharest promises of 2008.”
At a summit in Bucharest in April 2008, Nato declared that both Ukraine and Georgia would join the US-led defence alliance – but gave them no plan for how to get there.
I was living in Central Europe in 2008 and I carefully followed the Bucharest NATO summit to which Vladimir Putin was invited to give a talk.
I remember perfectly reading the news of how NATO proposed Ukrainian membership at that time, and it struck me as a deliberate provocation of Puti
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