The art of the Ukraine Deal

In any negotiation, we start by asking for more than we hope to gain. Donald Trump knows this, better than most people, so when it comes to the Panama Canal, he demands American control of it, but really probably would settle for getting the Chinese out of there. But when it comes to Ukraine, he's following Biden's example in Kabul: Run for the hills!

Already he has agreed that Ukraine won't recover its 2014 borders, nor will the country join NATO. But that's Putin's position, and the bargaining hasn't even started! The fuckwit in the Kremlin will no doubt demand that in return for doing us the favor of taking 20 percent of Ukraine's territory off our hands, we will de-mine and rebuild the cities he has obliterated in the past three years. Do you think we rely on Elon Musk to hold fast on that?