"Deserve Ain't Got Nothing To Do With It": The Dems Refuse To Be Realistic About the Ukraine War

 President Trump is trying to end the Ukraine War. Earlier this week, Vice President J.D. Vance proposed that the fighting stop with Russia keeping the ground it's gained and Ukraine pledging not to join NATO.

Obviously, President Trump's hand is strengthened if the mainstream media and the nation's political leaders are united behind him. Unfortunately, Trump's detractors don't like the Vance peace proposal. German Lopez, writing for the New York Times, implied that Trump favored Russia over Ukraine: 

Russia invaded Ukraine, but you wouldn’t know that from the peace negotiations. At every step, President Trump has pushed the victim to give ground, while the aggressor has given little of substance.

Prominent Democrats have also criticized Trump for not being more supportive of Ukraine and Ukrainian President Zelensky. Last month, Senators Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, and Chris Murphy denounced President Trump and Vice President Vance on television talk shows for supposedly ganging up on Zelensky when he visited the White House.  As reported by the World Socialist website, all three "backed the Democratic Party’s pro-war line, calling for stepped-up military aid to Ukraine and intensive efforts to defeat the Russian forces . . . ."

Zelensky insists there can be no peace until Russia withdraws from all Ukrainian territory, including Crimea.  He surely takes solace from the Democrats' opposition to Trump's peace initiative, which gives him some cover for stubbornly resisting a reasonable end to the war.

Zelensky and the Democrats argue that prolonged warfare is justified because Ukraine is the innocent victim of Russian aggression. But of course, Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't see things that way. 

From Putin's perspective, the United States meddled in Ukrainian politics in 2014, when the CIA engineered the overthrow of a popularly elected, pro-Russian Ukrainian president. Russia, reasonably alarmed, invaded Crimea, where it had a significant military presence, and annexed it to the Russian motherland.

Zelensky and the Democrats believe Ukraine deserves better than Trump and Vance's proposed peace deal. But, to quote Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven, "Deserve ain't got nothing to do with it."

The Ukrainians can fight on indefinitely so long as the U.S. provides them with financial assistance and copious military aid. But the casualties will be enormous, and Ukrainian cities will lie in ruins.

Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. will all be better off if the Ukraine war is brought to an end. Unfortunately, Zelensky and his Democratic Party allies have selfish motivations for opposing a reasonable peace deal.

 

The Ukraine war will end this year and someone will get the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping it

After three years of fighting, Ukraine's war with Russia is at a stalemate, Russia controls about 20 percent of Ukraine, and the Ukrainians can't drive them out.

Last August, in a surprise move, Ukrainians staged what the Western media called an incursion into the Kursk region of Russia and captured about 500 square miles of Russian territory. The United States, Ukraine's closest ally, claimed to be surprised by this move, but I suspect the Americans helped plan this mini-invasion. 

Ukraine hoped to use the captured territory as a bargaining chip to improve its position during peace talks, which were bound to occur sooner or later. Unfortunately for the Ukrainians, the Kursk invasion brought North Korean troops into the war as Russian allies, and now Russia has pushed the Ukrainians out of Russian territory. 

President Trump has pushed aggressively to end the Ukraine war--this "ridiculous war," as Trump has described it. He's taken a lot of heat from Democratic politicians and the Trump-hating media for his efforts. His enemies at home would rather continue the senseless bloodshed than allow Trump to get credit for brokering a peace deal.

Trump may have made some tactical errors in his vigorous efforts to push Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to the bargaining table. Trump cut off arms shipments to Ukraine for a short time, giving his enemies an opening to accuse Trump of being Russia's ally. 

Nevertheless, Trump's diplomatic pressure, asserted against both Ukraine and Russia, has changed the dynamics of the conflict. This war will end before the year is out.

Ukraine and its allies must face the fact that Russia will control Crimea and much of the Donbas region when this war is over. Crimea has been part of Russia since the 18th century,  and Russia has critical military installations there. Moreover, Russia must control the Sea of Azov and at least part of the Donbas to safeguard its supply line from the Russian Motherland to the Crimean peninsula.

The sooner the warring nations reach a peace deal, the fewer young soldiers will die in this nonsensical conflict.  I predict someone involved in bringing peace negotiations to fruition will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

However, it will not be President Trump. The leftist media, afflicted with a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, would never allow it.

Cover of Crimean Blunder by Pete Gibbs. Image credit: Amazon