> On a sunny day (Fri, 09 Feb 24 20:49:04 UTC) it happened NefeshBarYochai snipped-for-privacy@invalid.noy wrote in snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:<snip>
That was one of the things I admired about Trump. He eschewed foreign
> entanglements and realized that war is usually avoidable and a
> terrible burden on taxpayers when entered into too freely.
Not as a matter of principle - Trump is totally unprincipled - but because his approach was to keep his life maximally simple.
He'd have thrown Ukraine under the bus where it belongs and concentrated solely
> on America's *legitimate* interests. Funny how the true peacemakers are always
> vilified, though.
As if Trump was a "true peacemaker".
Throwing the Ukraine under the bus would encourage Putin to attempt even more land grabs. That approach didn't work too well when Chamberlain tried it 1938. You weren't around then, but better educated people have heard about it.