Mirengoff now finally accepts what we realized in about 2018: Donald Trump is very easily manipulated by the former KGB agent known as Vladimir Putin. [That post requires a sign up in order to view the entire text. Something I will never do.]

The latest evidence of this is that Trump has put out statements opposing Mr. Biden‘s authorization for Ukraine to use our own missiles to strike military targets inside Russia.

This from the guy who says he will solve this war — within days of taking office — perhaps by the end of January 2025. [That statement is a preposterous lie.]

In any event (finally) here is Mr. Mirengoff‘s faint condemnation of Donald Trump, and his simping for Putin:

…For Putin, then, it’s fine for Russia, the aggressor in this war, to use weapons and manpower supplied by its allies — e.g. Iran and North Korea — to kill and terrorize civilians inside of Ukraine. But it’s out-of-bounds for Ukraine to use weapons supplied by its allies against military targets inside of Russia…

It is fascinating, though that Paul only calls Putin “the aggressor” — note the different (far more strident) language he uses to describe Hamas. Yet in many ways, the two are equivalent.

Whatever. I long ago stopped expecting any form of rationality or consistency in the rhetoric — out of those who supported Donald Trump 1.0, and now only offer faint criticism of 2.0.

Onward, resolutely.