Putin and Trump are birds of a feather.
As far as I know Russia attacked Ukraine in an effort to bring it under Russian control. The US reaction to that should have been strong and unwavering support and aid to Ukraine to send a signal to Russia and to all of Europe. The Trump reaction has been anything but that.
His signal is don’t rely on or trust the U.S. and we don’t care what Russia (or likely China) does because the U.S. does the same thing.
Excerpt from Project Syndicate
BY MATTHEW DALY, SUSIE BLANN AND ELISE MORTONUpdated 2:55 PM EDT, October 10, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to end his country’s war with Russia and blaming him for high diesel prices in the U.S.
“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does,” Trump said.
The president, who on Friday struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to buy diesel from Russia in an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, has been urging Zelenskyy for weeks to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure. He has also sought to blame record U.S. diesel prices on Ukraine rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran, which has elevated world energy prices.
“NEVER in the field of human conflict was so much risked by one man for so little. Donald Trump is threatening to cripple Ukraine in its fight for survival—and to expose Europe to Russian aggression—seemingly for the pitiful prize of minimising his losses in next month’s midterm elections. The hard question is what Ukraine and its allies should do.”
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“Hardly his finest hour”
The Economist
