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The president should focus his efforts on ensuring wars in Gaza, Ukraine end on our terms
By: Jed Babbin for the Washington Times
One of President Trump’s greatest desires is to go down in history as a peacemaker.
He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but because the two are pariahs among the liberal political elite that controls the prize it’s unlikely that Mr. Trump will win it. Mr. Trump’s peace diplomacy aims to solve not only Russia’s war on Ukraine, but the Israel-Hamas war and the Iranian threat to civilization. But those wars are not like the wars of the 20th century. In World Wars I and II, there were clear delineations between aggressor and defender, good and evil. They were fought until one side was decisively defeated and had its ideology destroyed. The Korean War muddled those distinctions and Vietnam did away with them altogether.
Of the wars that Mr. Trump’s diplomacy seeks to settle, none seems susceptible to his kind of diplomatic solution. Russia’s war on Ukraine is a bit like a 20th century war because Vladimir Putin — mandated by his philosopher, Alexander Dugin — is set on conquering Ukraine to begin restoring the old Soviet Empire. Like Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm a century earlier, Mr. Putin, threatened by NATO’s rounds of expansion, may have felt surrounded by adversaries. That doesn’t excuse his war of aggression, but it apparently puts it beyond Mr. Trump’s ability to deliver peace. One of Mr. Trump’s most bitter thoughts is that Mr. Putin has rejected every peace plan Mr. Trump has proposed.
Originally published Trump’s Ukraine peace diplomacy on by https://globalsecurityreview.com/decoding-the-language-of-precision-warfare/ at Global Security Review
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