Trump wants to make a deal in Ukraine war. A bad deal is worse than none.

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-25 20:14:23 | Updated at 2024-11-25 22:20:41 2 hours ago

Trump wants to make a deal in Ukraine war. A bad deal is worse than none.
The Washington Post ^ | November 23, 2024 at 6:45 a.m. EST | Editorial Board

Posted on 11/25/2024 12:06:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Both Russia and Ukraine have been escalating their bloody conflict, now past the 1,000-day mark, seeking maximum advantage before Jan. 20, when President-elect Donald Trump will take office and probably bring a different U.S. policy toward the war. For Russia, escalation is about saving face — expelling Ukrainian forces from Russia’s Kursk region — and grabbing as much Ukrainian territory it can. For Ukraine, it’s a matter of surviving with its sovereignty and as much of its preinvasion territory as possible.

Escalation might be a hard concept to grasp in a savage struggle that has led to an estimated 1 million casualties. Russian President Vladimir Putin began raising the stakes this fall when he invited thousands of North Korean troops to augment his thinly stretched and decimated military. Ukraine responded with strikes inside Russian territory using British and American long-range missiles, albeit only after the Biden administration finally lifted its restriction on the use of such weaponry. The Russians have responded by firing a new medium-range, hypersonic ballistic missile — thankfully not armed with the nuclear warheads such missiles are capable of carrying — at a Ukrainian weapons factory in Dnipro. President Joe Biden has agreed to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines, weapons with a record of causing civilian casualties, but also perhaps the only things that can help Ukraine hold its lines against Russian and North Korean infantry assaults.

The reason for this surge in fighting is clear: Mr. Trump seems inclined to strike a quick deal to end the conflict once he takes office. He has been vague about what an eventual deal would look like, promising only that he would swiftly solve the conflict upon...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: bidenbois4ww3; fakenews; mattmurray; waposedition; wapotreason

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Still pretending it's a Ukraine war and not a USA/NATO proxy war.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Without reading the article, it seems to me the WaComPost is on DJT’s side on this and want the war stopped sooner rather than later by any means necessary.

Or at least that is what i’m reading into the headlines.

2 posted on 11/25/2024 12:09:20 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Washington Post: butt boys for the deep state.

AMD Trump haters/liars. Don’t trust anything they say.

3 posted on 11/25/2024 12:09:40 PM PST by GOPJ (No law says citizens who think they're GOD, have a right to force us to worship them- same w/trans.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Washingsnot Pest still doesn't know that they got their bell rung on November 5th.

No one cares what you say anymore, you lying, Gaslighting sacks of dog poo.

4 posted on 11/25/2024 12:10:38 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just curious, in what world, does anyone REALLY think Ukraine can win this war?

Seriously, does anyone really really think Ukraine can win? If not, then stop the killing. How many more Ukrainians have to die to get the same deal they could have got 2 years ago?

5 posted on 11/25/2024 12:11:20 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a filthy rotten rag of a paper! What they should be saying is that biden, the lazy America-hating sob, has done nothing to bring this war to an end. He has given Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars but hasn’t even tried to get them to stop fighting. Trump WILL make a deal! And this buttwipe paper will never thank Trump for it.

6 posted on 11/25/2024 12:12:25 PM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)

To: God luvs America

you read it wrong.

a bad deal is WORSE than no deal.

In other words...and it says it in actually direct words...escalation is needed.

They want us all to die because Trump won.

Not all, some are making a fortune off of the war...I’m guessing tech folks like bezos, who owns this is.

7 posted on 11/25/2024 12:13:35 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)

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