Very good conversation. Informative and insightful. Does anyone in the Trump administration know what Michael McFaul knows? Not that they would inquire of course. I don’t think there is any possibility for peace mostly because Trump believes in his own delusion that he and Vlad are pals, buddies-they have been through so much together just like two adolescents believing they’re in love. Putin thinks Trump is the dumbest American he’s ever met and an easy mark for his KGB acquired manipulation skills. Putin has never once said he wants to end the war. Ending the war is what the West wants but Putin doesn’t want that. Trump wants what Putin wants because he couldn’t live with the pain (not to mention humiliation) of a breakup. So Putin will keep bombing Ukraine and Trump will move on to something else
Very good conversation. Informative and insightful. Does anyone in the Trump administration know what Michael McFaul knows? Not that they would inquire of course. I don’t think there is any possibility for peace mostly because Trump believes in his own delusion that he and Vlad are pals, buddies-they have been through so much together just like two adolescents believing they’re in love. Putin thinks Trump is the dumbest American he’s ever met and an easy mark for his KGB acquired manipulation skills. Putin has never once said he wants to end the war. Ending the war is what the West wants but Putin doesn’t want that. Trump wants what Putin wants because he couldn’t live with the pain (not to mention humiliation) of a breakup. So Putin will keep bombing Ukraine and Trump will move on to something else
Why are we negotiating?