CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY FEBRUARY 21, 2025
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS CALLED UKRANIAN PRESIDENT VLODYMYR ZELENSKYY A “DICTATOR” WHO DUPED AMERICA INTO SENDING AID. ZELENSKYY RESPONDED, ACCUSING TRUMP OF LIVING IN A “BUBBLE OF RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION.”
IS THIS ANY WAY TO TREAT A SUPPOSED EUROPEAN ALLY? HAS TRUMP FORGOTTEN IT WAS RUSSIA’S VLADIMIR PUTIN WHO INVADED UKRAINE AND HAS CAUSED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIAN DEATHS? WHERE IS TRUMP’S CONDEMNATION OF PUTIN WHOM HE INCREASINGLY WANTS TO COZY-UP TO? THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE AND PUTIN MAY MEET AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK. WHY? WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING IN ADVANCE OF WHAT SUCH A MEETING WILL PRODUCE, IT CAN ONLY GIVE PUTIN, WHO IS A MURDERER AND A REAL DICTATOR, THE CREDIBILITY HE SEEKS.
A WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE YESTERDAY BEGINS THIS WAY: “PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DRAMATICALLY SHIFTED THE DIRECTION OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN FOUR SHORT WEEKS, MAKING THE U.S. A LESS RELIABLE ALLY AND RETREATING FROM GLOBAL COMMITMENTS IN WAYS THAT FUNDAMENTALLY RESHAPE AMERICA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WORLD.” SOME OF THAT RE-SHAPING IS LONG OVERDUE, BUT NOT WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS DOING TO UKRAINE. I’M CAL THOMAS.
