“When Donald Trump met President Zelensky in New York last September, the then US presidential candidate exuded confidence he could bring the war in Ukraine to an early end. “If we win, I think we’re going to get it resolved very quickly,” he said.

How quickly he meant varied over time. In a TV debate a few days earlier, Trump had promised he would “get it settled before I even become president”. This was an escalation on his previous commitment in May 2023 to stop the fighting in the first 24 hours of his presidency.

Trump has now been in office for more than two months and the penny may be beginning to drop in the White House that trying to end a conflict as bitter and complex as this may take time.”

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    11 hours ago

    Is it because he’s a shit businessman, negotiator, president, leader, human etc

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      Well he did bankrupted his casinos. His only talent is acting/showmanship on a reality TV show and bankrupting his own companies.

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        His only talent id say is somehow brainwashing a crowd of people in to thinking his has the same beliefs and values as they do.

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    “a conflict as bitter and complex as this”

    Huh? How is it complex? It is very simple. Putin wants Russia to expand to regain its “former glory”. Zelensky is not rolling over but defends his country. The West supports Ukraine to honour the Budapest Memorandum but also to have access to its resources. They are hesitant to send boots on the ground to prevent escalation.

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    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    And then is heard no more: it is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

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    Is it incompetence? Or only thinking about himself? Or not really even caring? So many options to choose from

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      It has a heavy dose of “what do you mean, reality doesn’t conform to my wishes?” It’s something every autocrat runs into.

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      As far as I can see, he says words and then more words and you know the best words but none of them that actually mean anything to him. So all his boasting about ending that war were as full of meaning as he expected them to be which was nothing

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    Because he had neither a plan nor a clue apart from saying “I might have been a little bit sarcastic when I said that” after those facts became too obvious to ignore.

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    If we win, I think we’re going to get it resolved very quickly

    i think i know where the problem lies, ladies and gentlemen

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    Ok I’m sorry that is just the most absolutely idiotic headline.

    But I suppose it’s targeted on an absolutely idiotic populace… so what even am I complaining about 🫠