The ramifications of the president\u2019s appeasement of Russia will be felt widely, not least in the alliance he recklessly undermined<\/p>\n
In Graham Greene\u2019s 1955 novel, The Quiet American<\/em>, Alden Pyle, a CIA agent, reckons he has all the answers to conflict in colonial era Vietnam. Pyle\u2019s ignorance, arrogance and dangerous scheming, intended to bring peace, result instead in the deaths of many innocents and ultimately his own. In today\u2019s too-real, nonfiction world, Donald Trump is Pyle. Except he\u2019s The Noisy American.<\/p>\n He thinks he\u2019s a great deal-maker. He\u00a0never stops trumpeting his brilliance. Yet his North Korea \u201cdeal of the century\u201d was a fiasco. He handed Afghanistan to the Taliban on a plate. Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu runs rings around him. Now Trump-Pyle proposes another rubbish deal \u2013 selling out Ukraine<\/a>. America\u2019s very own surrender monkey is Vladimir Putin\u2019s useful\u00a0idiot. No matter how officials spin it, Trump\u2019s concessions<\/a>, made before ceasefire talks with Russia even begin, are calamitous, primarily for Ukraine but also for Europe\u2019s security, the transatlantic alliance, and other vulnerable targets, such as Taiwan. As stated, Trump\u2019s giveaways<\/a> \u2013 accepting the loss of sovereign Ukrainian territory to Russian aggression, denying Nato membership to Kyiv, withholding US security guarantees and troops \u2013 are shameful appeasement, amounting to betrayal.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ramifications of the president\u2019s appeasement of Russia will be felt widely, not least in the alliance he recklessly undermined In Graham Greene\u2019s 1955 novel, The Quiet American, Alden Pyle, a CIA agent, reckons he has all the answers to conflict in colonial era Vietnam. Pyle\u2019s ignorance, arrogance and dangerous scheming, intended to bring peace, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}