Trump: An Assessment After the First Quarter
It is not a full quarter as his inauguration was 20 days into it, but it is the first quarter of 2025. How does it look?
Perhaps I can put it this way: a lot of good initiatives undertaken in a haphazard way that could limit their effectiveness or even result in failure. I will use a few of Trump’s initiatives to illustrate my concern. I will begin with Trump’s approach to ending the conflict in Ukraine. Next I will examine Trump’s use of DOGE’s revelations about waste, fraud, and grift in the federal budget. Then I will examine Trump’s approach to tariffs.
President Trump has no stake in the conflict with Russia. He is on record as stating that the conflict would not have occurred if his 2020 reelection had not been stolen by the Democrats, RINO Republicans such as Mitch McConnell, and the whore American media. Trump’s ability to extract the US from the conflict is greatly helped by the NY Times very long article, in my view written by the CIA as a confession, that from day one the conflict was one initiated by the United States against Russia with Russian defeat as its goal, with Ukrainian military action decided by Washington, including targets, weapons to be used, and targeting guidance of missile and drone attacks. In other words, the conflict has been Washington’s attack on Russia, not Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The CIA’s confession in the NY Times is a statement that the CIA has admitted a failure and has withdrawn from the conflict.
This paves the way for Trump to withdraw. The conflict will end the minute that Trump tells Putin that he hasn’t a dog in the fight and is withdrawing the US from participation. No more US weapons, money, US targeting information. Total military and diplomatic withdrawal and removal of all sanctions, as they are conflict related and Washington is responsible for the conflict.
This will leave the conflict where it belongs, not with Washington and NATO, but with Putin and whoever the Ukrainians elect to the office now in the hands of a person whose term has expired and who has no negotiating authority under the Ukrainian constitution.
But Trump has not taken advantage this obvious way of ending the conflict. Instead, he has introduced extraneous elements into the negotiations such as Washington’s claim to Ukrainian rare earths as payment for the war aid given by the Biden regime. Trump has also complicated the negotiations by denouncing Putin, who has kept the agreement, while def
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