Putin in the catbird seat (7) - Trump morphs into War President?

All is proceeding as I have foreseen. My prescience rivals that of Palpatine.

Three-and one-half years ago, when Russia launched a military assault on Ukraine, much to the chagrin of many of my blog correspondents, I forecast a Russian victory. I noted that feckless and inept western leadership, flaccid western publics with little patience, and the historical capacity of the Russian population to suffer over the long haul would combine to create conditions leading to a favorable outcome for Russia. We are now there.... e.g. closing in on a Russian victory. I feel badly for DJT having to inherit this fiasco. A scurry of squirrels would have done a better job in dealing with Russia and Ukraine than Autopen, Rice, Nuland, and Blinken.

Short of US boots on the ground or nukes, Trump has no options to turn the tide of the war, that is to repel the Russians from Ukraine's 2014 borders, including Crimea. Establishing so-called secondary sanctions against Russia only strengthen BRICS (including increased Indian participation in BRICs) whose members will be motivated to find ways to break the sanctions outside of dollar reserve currency world. Upped sanctions are not a good option for the US. Damned if we do and damned if we don't, because Russia will keep fighting under either option.

So now all Trump does is tweet that current situation is Autopen's fault. While true, In doing this he looks weak. Expect only nominal help from Europe. European culture is in decline due to its inability to resist the twin forces of radical secularism and mass Islamic immigration. Conversely, Russian culture, realigning with Orthodox Christianity, is firing on all eight in spite of the war. Clearly Russia can't go on forever. But, as of now, they have plenty of staying power IMHO.

It's time for the US to agree to Putin's Ukraine gains on land, send the former comic Zelensky packing to Zurich, cauterize Ukraine's bleeding with a European security agreement, show US reaffirmation of its NATO commitments, and initiate Western financed, Western constructed Ukraine rebuilding initiatives. Shower Putin with lucrative economic deals (arctic, space, yada) and eliminate all sanctions to lure him away BRICs while isolating China, the real US risk. Risks of Russian kinetic action in Baltics and Western Europe is a head fake put forward by forever war globalists, WEF crowd, and the MIC.

Up to 1000 Ukrainian soldiers a week are dying in this war (one US estimate Grok), taking out an entire generation of Ukrainian young men. Russian soldiers are also dying but they have a greater population. A Grok estimate on men between ages of 20 and 30: Russia, 9.5 million. Ukraine, 2.5 million. Whatever the real numbers are, the foregoing calculation is directionally correct meaning that Russia's ability to sustain the fighting is there.

In fighting this war, Putin has been ruthless... but effective. Did any leader win a war sans being ruthless? Russia is on the rebound from its horrible eighty-year experience with Bolshevism. We fought two world wars as allies with the great Russian culture. Like Catherine the Great, Putin is a culture rebuilder, not a global killer like Hitler and Stalin. Putin wants to assure Russian cultural integrity... not conquer Western Europe. There is no reason the US should be at war with Russia today.

Putin doesn't want the Ukraine war to go on forever. Six hundred thousand Russian casualties is not nothing. But, considering Russia's current position, i.e. being in the negotiator's cat bird seat... Putin's push to gain a stronger position post war resolution is understandable, where DJT's position is one of having to pull a rabbit out of a hat. Zelensky's internal support is fading. Trump needs to maneuver to get him out of there to stop this war. Otherwise, he, himself becomes a war president in a "forever war....' something that he claims he doesn't want to be.