Chomiak/Homans Aug 22
20250824
Here is their post from two days ago.
I’ll add my own piece. I have defended Trump, willing to hope for the best, because he has been subject to intense and unfair vilification for ten years. However, at this point I have to concede that he does not have a clue about Ukraine. He has let Putin “tap him along” far too long.
The guy who says it best is Prof. Darren Gerdes. Gerdes is a confessed conservative. Like me he had been hoping for the best. But, like me, he feels continually let down. He says that like me he had imagined that Trump might have been the one playing 4D chess. No. His zig-zags are not strategic. It is a blind man blundering around in a funhouse.
I find Gerdes amusing but worth watching. He is unapologetic about totally butchering the pronunciation of everything Ukrainian. He puts out a YouTube piece at least once a day. Different topics. He provides valuable links to the other YouTubers and bloggers whom I think have something to say, all of them politically to his left.
Yep, I agree also to an extent. What I think is that folks are deluding themselves thinking TRUMP believes Putin will connect w/ Z. Trump's purpose IS to call Putin's bluff and then he will leverage sanctions from not only the US but the WORLD against the Russkies like never before. The Whole time Putin HAS been stringing Trump and the world along with the intention of taking more territory or consolidating more solidly that held.