On Wednesday, President Trump decided to go whole-hog on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Let me be very clear about where I stand when it comes to the Ukraine war.
Russia attacked Ukraine. There was no good reason for Russia to attack Ukraine. Russia’s goal was to take over all of Ukraine and, originally, to kill Zelensky and anyone else who was ruling in power and not going to act as a puppet in the Putin regime.
None of this is speculative; that was the reality in February of 2022. Ukraine did a masterful job fending off that attack. By summer of that year, it was quite clear that a stalemate had basically set in. Despite all of the best attempts by the Europeans and the half-hearted attempts by the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with additional arms, the lines just weren’t moving that much.
So since summer of 2022, the lines have been pretty much set. The Donbas…
