More signs of Trump Derangement Syndrome? Why this headline?
My guess is that President Trump offered the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible a last chance when he met him in Alaska to come clean on the double invasion of the Ukraine (2014, 2022). These two Russian invasions were in total violation of a bilateral agreement of 1994 between Russia and the Ukraine that promised among other things a secure territorial integrity of the Ukraine!
Maybe President Trump also wanted to signal to any Russian opposition that it was high time to remove Putin the Terrible and make Russia a peaceful and prosperous country again!
That President Trump may very well insist that Europe needs to take more care of its own defenses and rely less on the US for their defense since the Cold War ended in 1991. This is a very legitimate and overdue political goal for the US! Europe has been a free rider for far too long in this respect given e.g. the belligerent Putin the Terrible!
The recent uptick of Russian military provocations/aggressions against at least three NATO member countries appear to be Putin the Terrible's (age 72) last straw! Maybe resistance/opposition against him is building up in Russia. Maybe Putin the Terrible is on borrowed time and he knows it!
"... Russia [No! Putin the Terrible] may be hoping to leverage any disagreement between NATO and the U.S. over the appropriate response to the incursions to undermine solidarity and “hollow out” NATO’s Article 5 mutual security guarantee among members ...
“Russia [No! Putin the Terrible, the former KGB agent] excels in the gray zone, in areas where there’s murk and ambiguity, and this drone incursion is squarely in the gray zone,” ... that the U.S. and NATO should expect Russia to continue using drones and other forms of hybrid warfare in Europe and the Baltic states unless they’re deterred. ...
Another option open to Europe, one that it could take unilaterally, would be to hand Ukraine the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets as a kind of down payment on future reparations for the war ..."
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