Donald Trump is an impressionable man not inclined to fact-checking:
“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days… It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through “Banking” or “Secondary Sanctions?”[1] – well, if a strike on the Malyshev plant in Kharkiv, where 12 German Leopard tanks were stationed, counts as a “civilian area,” then what qualifies as a military target?!
Precisely banking on Trump’s hotheadedness, the British-American architects of the global speculative finance system are using their propagandists in relentless attempts to enrage him and prevent the US from exiting the war with Russia:
“Trump has blown his chance of saving the West. From betraying Ukraine to waging trade wars, the American president has proven to be an utter disaster… How can anybody have supported Donald Trump in the first place?… The Donald 2.0 has used his vast mandate to purge his circle of dissenters and stuff it full of sycophants who are willing to trade their principles on a dime… Already, large majorities of the French, Germans, Italians, Spanish and Britons believe Trump is a threat to peace and security in Europe… This is just the start. Trump’s berserker approach to tariffs, which veers like a speeding truck full of explosives with a wonky wheel, has injected a volatility into the markets that may herald a global financial crash”[2],
and then, with even less restraint:
“Trump is repeating all the mistakes of appeasement, except it’s worse this time. The US president is openly on Putin’s side, refusing to condemn the invasion and instead shifting all the blame onto Ukraine… now we have Donald Trump. He is an unashamed appeaser (when was he ever ashamed of anything?)… Trump, heading Nato, ought to be helping Ukraine’s position against Russia, and could use renewed military support if Putin offered no concessions, he is not even acting neutrally between the parties. He is on Russia’s side. As a way of punishing aggression, creating a lasting peace, taking responsibility for the outcome, respecting the sovereignty of individual states or leading the most important defence alliance in the world, Trump’s behaviour is genuinely wicked”[3].
The Deep State is counting on Trump rushing to prove he’s no traitor – that he’s smart, calculating, and moral – and in that impulsive fervor, he’ll strike Russia.
Yet to win this war, which is not his own, Trump must figure out how to denazify Ukraine himself – and not through Putin’s forces – and actually accomplish it.
1 truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114404524335638236
The President of the United States of America Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 26, 2025;
2 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/25/trump-has-blown-his-chance-of-saving-the-west/
“Trump has blown his chance of saving the West” (Jake Wallis Simons, The Telegraph, 25 April 2025);
3 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/25/trump-repeating-all-mistakes-of-appeasement-except-worse/
“Trump is repeating all the mistakes of appeasement, except it’s worse this time” (Charles Moore, The Telegraph, 25 April 2025).