Trump's Ukraine peace idiocy - Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : On the matter of respect, Trump rightly senses that the presentation of strength is critical to effective foreign policy leadership.
59% : But peace will not be possible unless Trump recognizes that a viable peace requires both a greater representation of American strength and his greater awareness of what kind of a leader Putin truly is, and what objectives he ultimately seeks.
34% : Why would Putin accept a concessionary peace with Ukraine if all he needs to do to get a dominant peace is to warn Trump that nuclear war will follow if he doesn't get what he wants?
29% : Trump must recognize that Putin does not respect kind words or seek fireside chats.
28% : Yet, by bowing to Putin's threats, Trump utterly undercuts his own negotiating hand with him.
26% : Third, Putin does not presently respect Trump.
23% : First, Trump does not understand that Russia's current objectives in Ukraine are unacceptable to Ukraine, European security, and U.S. interests.
21% : The most memorable example came in Helsinki, 2018, when Putin replicated a Shakespearean "tennis balls, my liege" insult of Trump by gifting him a soccer ball.
21% : Today, however, Trump bends the knee whenever Putin dangles nuclear brinkmanship rhetoric.
17% : Disingenuously claiming that he wants Vice President Kamala Harris elected in November, Putin instead believes Trump can be manipulated at the intersection of his ego and ignorance.
17% : But where Henry V turned the Dauphin's gift to gun-stones, Trump simply grinned at Putin's insult.
14% : In his first term as president, Trump abandoned Obama-era appeasement policies and bolstered U.S. nuclear forces in response to Russian treaty breaches.

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