CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 29, 2025
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A BELIEVER TO UNDERSTAND EVIL, BUT IT HELPS.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS TRIED A FOREIGN POLICY BASED ON HIS PERSONALITY, BUT THIS ISN’T ABOUT NEGOTIATING REAL ESTATE DEALS, THIS IS ABOUT OPPOSING DICTATORS AND MURDERERS.
VLADIMIR PUTIN IS BOTH…AND MORE. HE THINKS UKRAINE IS PART OF RUSSIA AND HAS BEEN WILLING TO KILLING AN UNTOLD NUMBER OF CIVILIANS, ALONG WITH UKRANIAN SOLDIERS TO ACHIEVE HIS GOAL. BY ANY DEFINITION, PUTIN IS A WAR CRIMINAL, BUT HIS SECURITY IS SO GOOD HE WON’T BE ARRESTED.
THERE IS TALK IN CONGRESS OF RE-IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA, BUT UNLESS THE EUROPEAN UNION JOINS IN THEY ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE EFFECTIVE. EUROPE RELIES TOO MUCH ON RUSSIAN OIL, BUT GRABBING EUROPE IS PUTIN’S TARGET AND THEY HAD BETTER STAND-UP AND OPPOSE HIM NOW, OR THEY WILL REGRET IT LATER. THAT IS A MAJOR LESSON FROM WORLD WAR TWO. EUROPEANS THOUGHT HITLER COULD BE BOUGHT-OFF BY ALOWING HIM TO VIOLATE THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES, BUILD UP THE GERMAN MILITARY AND ANNEX THE SUDETENLAND.
IT’S TURNED INTO A CLICHÉ, BUT IT’S NO LESS TRUE: THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. I’M CAL THOMAS.
