Hi All,
If you can, turn your mind back to almost two weeks ago, not long after Trump started talking, once again, about helping Ukraine and hammering Russia. His rhetorical flourishes such as calling Russia a “paper tiger”, depressingly caused people to again lose their mind and start fantasizing about the USA sending masses of weapons to Ukraine. Yes, we were told Tomahawk missiles would soon be sent and Trump would definitely authorize Ukraine to fire them into Russia. As always the narrative was spread far and wide by that extraordinary self-deceiving group that claims to support both Trump and Ukraine. Sadly, the Ukrainians even seemed to fall for this line.
As I always do in these moments, I went to my most reliable senior Republican source, and they, as always, spoke sense. Trump was not pivoting to Ukraine, as many were saying, he was actually feeling heartbroken at the one person from whom he covets love and respect—Vladimir Putin. The exact reality as described to me was:
“He (Trump) is like a spurned lover at the moment.”
In the same piece I tried to pour cold water on those who were dreaming of Trump backing Ukraine with gusto.
