LOS ANGELES.–Slamming 79-year-old President Donald Trump for not delivering on his promise to end the Ukraine or Gaza war, the fake news unfairly makes the case that Trump is not the peacemaker he claimed when he ran for president. No one in the fake news talks about the roadblocks Trump faced from 47-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who’s resisted peace talks kicking-and-screaming, preventing Trump from putting a realistic peace deal together with 72-year-old President Vladimir Putin. Yet Democrat-controlled news outlets like ABC News insist it’s all Trump’s fault, now blaming him for potentially intervening in the Israeli-Iran War. “He’s clearly not a peacemaker, but he’s not a warmaker, either,” said Aaron David Miller, a former Clinton and Bush-43 diplomat now at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ABC, of course, would cite a Trump critic.
Miller says nothing of former President Joe Biden funding proxy war in Ukraine, ending decades of diplomacy, détente, arms control and global partnership with Russia. So, when Trump took office the U.S. was essentially at war with the Kremlin, all because Biden decided to fund proxy war against Russia. Yet ABC News sees fit to cast Trump as a hypocrite for not ending the Ukraine War as he promised in the 2024 campaign in 24 hours. No one blames Zelensky who has done nothing but prevent any meaningful peace dialogue, starting when he threw a fit in the Oval Office Feb. 28, prompting Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to ask him to leave. Yet ABC News blames Trump for mistreating Zelensky because Trump warned him about starting WW III or nuclear war. Aaron David Miller likes to blame Trump but he has no solution for dealing with Zelensky and Putin.
Trump has mended fences with Putin over the last five months, building remarkable trust and cooperation, ending Biden’s proxy war with Russia. “He has made comments on all of them that this could be done quickly or easily and there are solutions to these problems,” Miller said. “And yet, he has not been successful in even identifying what I would consider to be a potentially effective strategy for managing or let alone resolving them. And therein in lies the challenge,” Miller said, putting the blame squarely on Trump. But what hasn’t Trump done to try to end the Ukraine and Gaza Wars? He’s worked closely with Putin to come up with a realistic plan to end the bloody Ukraine War, asking Zelensky to compromise on retaining all the sovereign land he’s lost over three years of war. Zelensky refuses to compromise with Putin, leaving peace prospects up in the air.
When it comes to the Gaza War, Trump has asked Hamas to return all the hostages so the war can end and the reconstruction of Gaza can begin, including all the humanitarian relief necessary to help beleaguered Gaza residents. Trump has watched Zelensky stab him in the back at the Munich Security Conference, telling EU leaders that Trump wasn’t concerned about European security. If Trump were concerned about European security, he’d continue the Biden policy of keeping Putin as an enemy and giving Zelensky a blank check to fund proxy war. Trump has restored U.S.-Russia relations with Putin no longer considering the U.S. a mortal enemy. European Union has taken a more belligerent approach toward the Kremlin. EU officials rip Trump for not going along with their new sanctions on the Kremlin, something Trump sees as counterproductive.
When the Group of Seven [G7] met in the Canadian Rockies this week, Zelensky was there continuing to make his pitch for more cash-and-arms. Does that sound like somebody interested in making peace? Zelensky has gaslighted the EU to think that Trump was going to give Ukraine a raw deal, forcing him to trade land for peace. Well, what does Zelensky think is going to get a workable peace deal. Does he think that Putin should return all the land he’s seized in over three years of bloody trench warfare? When it comes to the current hot spot in Iran, Trump wants to be helpful to Israel with the goal of stopping Iran from building its first A-bomb. Trump told his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard it didn’t matter whether Iran has an active A-bomb program. What matters, Trump said, is preventing the Ayatollah from getting his hands on a workable nuke.
No one in the fake news gives Trump any credit for working hard to bring about peace in Ukraine and Gaza. If Zelensky doesn’t want peace or to compromise with Putin, then he’ll pay the ongoing consequences of war, with all its death and destruction. How does Zelensky think Putin should stop the war because he claims he wants a 30-day unconditional ceasefire? Pitting the EU against Trump, Zelensky has prolonged the war and cost himself and his country dearly. Whatever support Zelensky has in the EU or G7, they won’t subsidize his war with the Kremlin like Biden did for the last three years. EU officials, like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, knows the price of escalating the Ukraine War. Merz has been reluctant to give Zelensky the German-made long-range Taurus missiles to attack deep inside Russia. Fake news does nothing but prolong Ukraine’s agony.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
