Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 | 2 a.m.
President Donald Trump has shattered our relationship with Ukraine by proposing appeasement to Vladimir Putin even earlier than negotiations started in Riyadh. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was despatched to barter a peace settlement with Russia. Nevertheless, no seat on the desk was supplied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Our European allies are mortified by this.
America has by no means modified sides in the midst of a warfare. Trump lied by saying Zelenskyy was accountable for beginning the warfare in Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia three years in the past.
Appeasement didn’t work when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. Our allies had been overlooked of Trump’s unilateral proffer of a peace settlement, the place Russia retains the captured the captured territory and Ukraine doesn’t be part of NATO. Then Trump mentioned he might have made the identical deal to start with and averted the warfare. That’s like exhibiting your playing cards earlier than the bets are in.
Putin got here into energy vowing to reestablish the territorial empire of the Soviet Union. Solely a idiot would assume he would cease with Ukraine.
Russia claims it doesn’t need a NATO nation on its doorstep. NATO is a defensive alliance that doesn’t invade nations.
The Ukrainians have paid a steep value in demise and destruction to defend their nation in opposition to Russia. That’s the similar Russia that wishes to assault the U.S. if they might. We owe Ukraine a debt of gratitude for standing in opposition to Putin’s aggression.
