During a state visit to the United Kingdom, Donald Trump made a shocking admission, shocking because he spoke as the president of the United States, a global superpower:
- President Donald Trump has acknowledged he thought that the war between Russia and Ukraine was the easiest problem to solve.
- He had thought it would be easy for him to end it, thanks to his personal relationship with Vladimir Putin.
But beyond the shock waves caused by a such naivety at such a level, Trump’s statement is first of all an acknowledgment, “from the horse’s mouth”, of the fact that the President of the United States was manipulated like a child by the President of Russia on a strategic issue. Of course, with the corresponding devastating consequences for the population of Ukraine, for the security of Ukraine’s neighbors, for the stability of the world in general and for the credibility of the United States among friends and enemies alike.
In theory, the fact that a simple businessman was played like a textbook by an old KGB agent shouldn’t be surprising – somehow, it is in the nature of things.
But the poor businessman could have easily avoided this trap if, at least once he moved his crates into the Oval Office, he would have kept in check his visceral contempt for specialists, for expertise, for institutions and for knowledge, in general. Trump doesn’t know, doesn’t want to know, and he hates those who know — and that has cost him so much that he’s finally come to admit it.
Incidentally, he recently fired a huge number of Russia experts from the CIA !!!! And this came after he had previously imposed on the leadership of the National Intelligence Services a policeman with notable pro-Russian proclivities (and, worse still, with pro-Assad sympathies).
The even greater misfortune is that Donald Trump is engaged today in a fierce battle aimed at transforming both American society and the state apparatus of America in his image and likeness. And if you also take a look at the offensive of his henchmen – Musk, Bannon & Co. – against EU countries, your hair stands on end at the thought of him succeeding in what he set out to do.
In chancelleries around the world, it is more than certain, that the words, reasoning and mood of the US leader, related to Putin and his war, have been duly noted.
St best, Trump has horrified America’s allies, while the enemies of the United States are going wild.
We can easily realize that the dictators of Russia and China, for example, will not only collapse on the floor laughing, but also that they will exploit to the maximum what Donald Trump has uttered, in order to optimize even more finely their attitude on the world stage, their strategies towards Ukraine + Europe, respectively towards Taiwan + Asia.
Dar că este chiar atât de slab, precum a atestat-o declarația sa de pe tărâm britanic, și că slăbiciunile care îl macină ating o asemenea profunzime – asta, probabil, a adăugat un strat gros de surprindere și, neîndoielnic, în funcție de capitala care face analiza, occidentală sau orientală, a prăbușit sau a ridicat enorm așteptările.
A weak president, torn apart by his own weaknesses – something which is clear to anyone with a clear head is what Donald Trump really means. But as weak as that, as his statement on British soil showed, and such obvious weaknesses, must have been very surprising. Depending of course on which capital is making the analysis, be it Western or Eastern, his statements have raised or collapsed expectations enormously.
The British staged a major coup with the Trump visit, judging not so much by what London managed to obtain from him, but especially by what it managed to prevent by flattering him – first of all, it avoided a degradation, dangerous even for the other European states, of the transatlantic relationship (even if its terms and dynamics will undergo some changes, as The Economist’s hot analysis noted).
In 2025, Trump experienced a kind of “Ceausescu ’78” moment in the UK, of course with a consistent upgrade, of course keeping the necessary proportions when we make this comparison.
But at the same time, precisely through his statement related to the war in Ukraine and his personal relationship to the puppeteer Putin, Trump somehow made the Romanian dictator seem slightly less clownisg and infinitely more grounded in reality.
What an unspeakable horror that is!
- PS: The mere fact of believing that a war unleashed by Russia can be easier to solve than other wars disqualifies you at some basic intellectual level. And you go even lower if you imagine that you can solve it like a haggling at the market, be chummy with a KGB killer type, who is trained par excellence to manipulate
- And you sink even further thinking that some Russian dictator, regardless of what’s he’s called, regardless of the era in which he reigns, actually cares about the number of dead soldiers, slaughtered in vain (the Russian ones that is).
