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President-elect Donald Trump will continue military aid to Ukraine after his inauguration, according to “three officials familiar with discussions” the Financial Times spoke with late last week — and that’s not the only peace through strength measure you can expect during Trump 47.
Accordingtothenon-paywalledYahoo!summaryoftheFTreport,keepingUkrainearmedwon’tendwiththepeacedealTrumphopestonegotiatebetweenMoscowandKyiv:“BritishofficialsnotedthatTrumpseesprovidingweaponsafteraceasefireasaligningwithhis‘peacethroughstrength’philosophy.”
Well,good.
Better,TrumpremainsopposedtoNATOmembershipforUkraine.AsI’veremindedreadershererepeatedlyinthenearlythreeyearssincePutinbeganhisstupidwar,NATOdoesn’timportwars.Moldova,Georgia,andUkrainewouldalldearlyloveNATOmembership,butnonewillgetit(oroughttogetit)untiltheirborderissues(allwithRussia)areresolved.That’seffectivelya“never”forallthree,absentsomeradicalchangesontheEuropeanscene.
Perhapsbestofall,Trumpisb
