Trump 47 Might be a Worse Commander-in-Chief Than Trump 45
Trump 47 Might be a Worse Commander-in-Chief Than Trump 45
There is every indication that Donald Trump would continue the Biden policies in regards to Israel and Ukraine, and possibly start a war with Iran if elected
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, was in Pennsylvania last week campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris with the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. Pennsylvania is one of the most important battleground states in the 2024 election, if not the most important, and Donald Trump appears to have nothing to say about it. According to Zelensky himself, Donald Trump seems to have given him assurances of continued U.S. backing of Ukraine in their war with Russia.
Interesting to note, in my opinion, that conservative media who trashed Senator Mitch McConnell for meeting with Zelensky after he was campaigning for Harris had nothing to say about Trump having a photo-op with Zelensky. More interesting, however, is why Donald Trump himself is not going after Zelensky for actively campaigning against him and trashing Trump with comments like, “even if his idea [for ending the war] — that no one has heard yet — doesn't work for us, for our people, he will do anything to implement his idea anyway. And this worries me a little." Zelensky couldn’t be more clear that he rejects Trump’s notion of a deal with Russia to end the war and would prefer that Kamala Harris win the 2024 presidential election to continue the Biden policy of unlimited American weapons and taxpayer dollars flowing to Ukraine.
Now, we don’t know exactly what Trump might have meant by “support” in his meeting with Zelensky. Certainly Trump has no problem letting people believe a meeting went well for them while planning to throw them under the bus all along; remember when Mitt Romney thought he had a great meeting with Trump when he believed he was being considered for Trump’s cabinet and Trump ended up mocking him later. Maybe Trump was playing his cards close to the vest with Zelensky, but if he is then he is also displaying very uncharacteristic restraint when it comes to dealing with Zelensky publicly. People who cross Trump usually end up as fodder for his posts on X or Truth Social, or his campaign rally speeches, but not Zelensky. For some reason the worst thing Donald Trump can say about Zelensky is to sarcastically refer to him as the best salesman he’s ever seen. The implication to me seems to be that Trump would likely continue the policy he began in his first term of arming Ukraine, which was obviously expanded under the Biden regime.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump’s vice presidential pick Senator J.D. Vance said that people who are sick of the United States being involved in all these pointless wars overseas should support the Trump-Vance ticket. Yet, here we have the president of Ukraine stating that Trump told him that he would continue to support Ukraine in their war with Russia, with no push-back from Trump, while he campaigns for Trump’s opponent, and we also have Trump blaming Iran for the assassination attempts against him—despite the very real ties the second gunman seems to have with the Ukrainian government whose president, again, is openly campaigning against Trump—and threatening to “blow [Iran] to smithereens.” Not to mention Trump’s full-throated support of Israel as they have obliterated the Gaza Strip, increased their takeover of the West Bank, and have now moved into full warfare with neighboring Lebanon. Donald Trump was the first president of my lifetime not to start a new war—he continued all of the ongoing wars, unfortunately—but it appears that if he is elected to a second-term he intends to continue to throw unlimited money and weapons to Israel and Ukraine in their conflicts, and to finally give neocons like Dick Cheney, who, like Zelensky, is supporting Kamala Harris for president, the war with Iran that they have always wanted.
Despite Senator Vance’s claims, remember that the vice president is irrelevant and has no power, the difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on foreign policy seems to be rhetorical only. This is why I’ve said that choosing between Trump and Harris based on their stances on the issues is a fool’s game, because nobody knows where either of them actually stand on the issues and the evidence we do have indicates that they would simply continue doing what the Biden regime has been doing without success. Trump displayed little actual willingness to go against prevailing foreign policy winds during his presidency, and the country is in a far worse position today than when he took over as president in 2017. Given his track record, and the way he seems afraid to say anything about about a foreign president openly campaigning against him, it seems highly unlikely that Trump will actually change anything for the better should he be elected to another term.