Trump envoy has brilliant plan for Ukraine: Just give up. After all, occupied eastern Ukraine already speaks Russian
Happy Sunday. This post has no Florida angle other than the fact we all live on the same planet and I still see Ukraine flags on mailboxes in my neighborhood
This just came across my news feed, and even though there’s no apparent Gunshine State angle, I had to share it. Or, perhaps more accurately, rant about it.
It’s from Adam Kinzinger, one of our January 6 heroes, posting on Blue Sky:
Steve Witkoff is a 68-year-old real estate developer from the Bronx picked by Donald Trump to be his “special envoy” to the Middle East.
Somewhere in his travels, he must have gotten lost because Ukraine isn’t in the Middle East, it’s in Europe, but just because he was in real estate doesn’t mean geography is necessarily his strong suit, if he has one.
So, let’s discuss this argument that people who speak Russian belong to Russia.
First off, people don’t “belong” to countries. That’s been an established principle in the United States since the 1700s. But if you accept Wicoff’s argument, then you must necessarily also agree that:
It’s acceptable for France to invade Canada because they speak French in Quebec.
Portugal is entitled to invade Brazil because they speak Portuguese.
Mexico and most Central and South American countries are entitled to invade one another willy-nilly because they speak Spanish.
And the United States is entitled to invade Canada (something Trump has proposed) because they also speak English there. I suppose we are also allowed to conquer Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, too, because they all speak English.
Or they could invade us, and it would be hunky-dory.
Wycoff, of course, is just parroting Vladimir Putin’s demand, made earlier in the week to Trump, that any peace deal in the Russian-Ukraine war would require Ukraine to let Russia keep all the occupied territory where it has any of its dwindling forces (and North Korean mercenaries) stationed.
Peace through surrender. It always works. For one side, anyway. For a while.
But this is the kind of dimwitted thinking you get when you put a real estate developer in charge of international relations. Or the White House.
Rant over.
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Is Nitwitkoff a jerkoff or what?