Prague 2.0 — Can the World Learn From History? Or Be Doomed to Repeat It?
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As usual, the Sunday morning shows are a nightmare today—a cavalcade of corrupt regime officials lying to the camera, including Marco Rubio deliberately evading the central question of “root causes” of Putin’s invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine.
Margaret Brennan asks Rubio about it and this word salad emerged.
Well ultimately yeah but I mean what he means by root causes is long historical complaints that we've heard repeatedly this is not a new argument he's been making this for a long time and it's the argument that it's Western encroachment and I don't want to get into it’s just so long with the bottom line is that all of you know we're not going to focus on all of that stuff we're going to focus on this are they going to stop fighting or not and what it's going to take to stop the fighting and what it's going to take to stop the fighting if we're being honest and serious here is both sides are going to have to give and both sides should expect to get something from this and that's a very difficult thing to do it's very difficult because Ukraine obviously feels you know harmed and rightfully so because they were invaded and the Russian side because they feel like they've got momentum in the battlefield and frankly don't care…
[h/t Aaron Rupar]
“All that stuff” is Putin’s totalist ideology that he must reconstitute the Russian Empire, starting with Ukraine. Putin will never stop—as Rubio knows very well.
But the real tell came when feckless middleman Steve Witkoff was asked whether Trump supports handing over the Donbas region, which includes the Donetsk Fortress Belt that protects Ukraine, and Europe, from Russian occupation.
This non-answer is a yes.
However, Zelenskyy is no fool. He sees right through it. This is who will be in the meeting at the White House tomorrow. This is very good news if the Europeans can stand up to the new Chamberlain in the form of Donald Trump. At a minimum, there will be adults in the room.
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