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Will Trump stand up to Putin in his quest to end the conflict in Ukraine? (thehill.com)
BY: JOSEPH BOSCO, CONTRIBUTOR
It is legacy-building time for Donald Trump.
The former president and president-elect has already entered the history books as only the second American to have won the presidency, lost reelection, then get elected again for a nonconsecutive second term. But Trump’s ultimate legacy will prove to be a lot more consequential on national security and foreign policy — for better or worse. Four major conflicts are either raging or brewing thanks to the anti-U.S. cabal of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
America’s adversaries will not wait until Trump’s administration is settled in before they begin acting; one or more of them may even decide the opportune time to make their next move is right now, during the two-month interregnum while the Biden administration is disintegrating and the Trump team is still forming and consolidating. Even if they decide to defer new action until Trump takes office to see what deals or concessions he may offer, the clock is already running on a tight deadline Trump set for himself: settlement of the war in Ukraine.
Several times during his campaign, he pledged to resolve the conflict “within 24 hours.” Trump later doubled down on what already seemed to many an impossible boast by asserting that he would accomplish the feat even before officially taking office on Jan. 20. All he would have to do, he claimed, was to talk with Vladimir Putin, with whom he has a mutually respectful personal relationship notwithstanding Putin’s record as a war criminal, and with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he has publicly blamed for provoking Putin’s aggression.
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