Ep. 2138 - Tulsi CONFIRMED, Trump Pushes UKRAINE DEAL
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What are Trump's plans for the Russia-Ukraine conflict?
Well, President Trump promised that when he entered office, he was going to look at the Russia-Ukraine situation and try to facilitate an actual end to the war. People have been watching this war very closely understand that Russia's original goal, which was to take Kyiv to completely ingest and then digest, all of Ukraine, turn it into a functioning part of the new Russian empire, that that failed. And that failed very early on in the war. But very quickly, the war then transmuted into something else. And that was a Ukrainian attempt, backed by Europe, backed by the Biden administration, to take back portions of the country that had essentially been conquered by Russia in 2014 after the Euromaidan revolution.
The attempt to take the Donbass and Crimea back from Russian forces, that was largely doomed to failure because the only way to do that would have been to arm up the Ukrainians to the extent that it might have prompted a larger Russian intervention using perhaps things like tactical nuclear weapons. That is the only way that could have been done. Or to allow the Ukrainians to attack inside Russia in such a way that could have provoked a larger war. Now, it may be that those concerns over a larger war were exaggerated. However, the risk-reward relationship there was out of balance. The reality was that the West had very little interest in Ukraine fighting a large scale war to take back Donbass and Crimea, areas that are predominantly by virtually all polling data, even before the fake Russian Democratic takeover. Those areas were very pro-Russian historically.
And so Russia taking over those areas, while it is devastating to the economy of Ukraine, much of the oil-rich area of Ukraine is in its east in the Donbass region. Crimea, of course, is on the Black Sea. And so much of the warm water ports available to the Ukrainians were via Crimea. The reality was that barring some sort of massive war effort, much larger than anything that Ukraine was actually given, those areas were not going to be retaken by Ukraine. And so this conflict had settled into a stalemate for almost three years at this point because the original invasion took place at the end of February 2022. And for a very long time, the Biden administration had a conflicting strategy, a mutually exclusive strategy. On the one hand, the Biden administration suggested that they would continue to provide endless aid until, quote unquote, victory was achieved.
But they refused to either provide the necessary aid to achieve full scale victory or to define victory as something other than full scale victory. These were mutually exclusive tactics. If they were defining victory as Ukraine takes back Donbass and takes back Crimea, then you have to give Ukraine the weaponry necessary in order to accomplish that. Anything less than that is going to lead to stalemate and loss. Or theoretically, you redefine victory to survival, meaning Russia already controlled Donbass and Crimea before the 2022 invasion. And so Russia's goal had already been defeated, at which point victory could have been achieved by any sort of rational stretch of the imagination simply by fending off further Russian territorial aggression.
And by that measure, the war should have come to an end a couple of years ago because basically the battle lines in Ukraine have been fairly solidified for two years, two and a half years at this point. Henry Kissinger, the late Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, among other titles, he had proposed that this off-ramp essentially be offered way back in May of 2022. And frankly, I thought that that was the correct approach. Because there was no actual end goal that was achievable. And the Biden administration was openly admitting this. They were saying, we are going to provide weaponry up until victory is achieved. How is victory defined? They said, we don't know. Well, you cannot win a war if you refuse to define victory.
And again, either victory is going to be the taking back of all Ukrainian territory, which would have required the Biden administration to send F-16s to Ukraine, among other things. Or victory had to be defined in some other way, in which case an off-ramp should have been sought. Trump is taking a much more concerted view at reality. And so he has now opened negotiations with the Russian regime.
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