Weekend Update#120: The US Changes Sides?

Is this the week the post-1945 world ended?

Phillips P. OBrien

Feb 16, 2025

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Hi All,

OK—we are perilously close to the worse case scenario on Trump and Ukraine. It seems that those who were saying for a long time that Trump was a brilliant negotiator, that he would want to put Putin in his place, that he would get a good deal for Ukraine—all of it is being revealed as nonsense. Indeed, this was the week that Trump reached out to …

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