Updated Sunday Afternoon | 08.17.2025: Hinderaker would tell us that Trump is doing a marvelous job. Poppycock.

Trump is now effectively once again Putin’s b!tch: he’s aligned himself with the giveaway Putin has waited for for four years.

He’s aligned himself against an independent Ukraine. And along the way, Hinderaker brings up the now irrelevant fact… that no one has ever dealt with Putin’s Crimea aggressions. One wrong does not nullify… another.

We may be certain that Trump will never oppose Putin and right that wrong. Regardless of whatever Democratic presidents ever did or did not do. [And John completely forgets that Trump had over four years (first time around), from 2017 to 2021, to right that wrong — and did the… opposite. Damn.]

But such is his stilted “logic.” End, update.

It has come to this: Trump is siding with Putin, in pushing for a “surrender more land, to get peace” deal. And so, Europe will stand with Ukraine’s people — against Putin, who clearly has Trump in his thrall. Again.

Ukraine was a free nation, for 600 years before Russia / the old legacy USSR annexed it nearly 103 years ago. And, it was independent again after 1991 — and the collapse of the old USSR under glasnost.

But once again, as in his first administration, Putin plays Trump like a fiddle. In any event, here’s CBS, with the awful latest:

…European leaders announced that they would join Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington on Monday as they seek to navigate America’s new approach to ending the war.

Trump signaled Saturday that he was reversing his insistence on a ceasefire and instead pursuing a permanent peace deal — aligning the United States with the Kremlin rather than Kyiv and its European backers.

As Ukraine and Europe work out how best to move forward, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von de Leyen, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that they would be joining Zelenskyy, perhaps hoping to ensure there is no repeat of his last Oval Office meeting….

The US is again embarrassed — before the moral, free wotld — by a feckless Tangerine 2.0. Shameful — and utterly… avoidable. Damn.

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