I support Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war.
I supported the initial efforts to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion, although I never bought the “democracy vs tyranny” argument. I agree that the war was unnecessary, at least partly caused by a failure of the West to understand that Ukraine membership in NATO was a red line and that our commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty should have remained softly spoken and not loudly proclaimed, but I thought the Russian invasion crossed a red line.
My view was simple: preventing a Russian takeover of Ukraine was in our interests, but a forever war or even a return to the status quo ante 2014 was unrealistic. A fantasy stoked by a transnational elite that was using the war–and the deaths of over a million people–to conduct a massive money laundering operation.
In other words, the war was not black and…
