Doug Bandow
Key Points and Summary – While President Trump deserves credit for pursuing diplomacy to end the Ukraine war—a step his predecessor avoided—his strategy contains a grave risk to U.S. interests.
-In his pursuit of a historic peace deal, Trump has proposed offering Ukraine an “Article 5-like” security guarantee.
-This commitment, made outside of NATO, could obligate the U.S. military to defend Ukraine and create a direct tripwire for conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia.
-This move betrays the core principle of “America First” by sacrificing American security for a foreign entanglement.
How the Ukraine War Could End? We Might Have Some Clues
America matters. There could be no more dramatic lesson from the spectacle of seven European leaders—heads of government and state, the European Commission, and NATO—meeting with President Donald Trump, a man who they almost certainly privately despise.
Similar was the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, dressing up to avoid a presidential dressing down like that incurred during his previous Oval Office visit.
Despite America’s really bad quarter century—the catastrophic Iraq debacle, mindless endless wars, squalid Biden incapacity, ongoing fiscal catastrophe, and unnatural Trumpian pageantry—the titans of Europe were inexorably drawn to the White House.
In the West, at least, there is still only one nation that really matters, irrespective of who leads its government. Countries which once ruled most of the earth remain but supplicants to an upstart country which began with a few disgruntled colonists transported to a distant new world. By begging for a Washington audience, the assorted grandees conceded their incapacity to run their own affairs, let alone much influence events beyond their own borders.
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