Thursday, June 26, 2025

You think?

"I consider [Putin] a person who is misguided," Trump said of the Russian dictator yesterday at the NATO meeting in the Netherlands.

Well, that's a start. As is NATO's decision to raise its defense spending to 3.5 percent of gross national product, plus 1.5 percent devoted to defense-related spending, significantly including aid to Ukraine. This is a level that no NATO member presently reaches, though Estonia is heading in that direction. And the US does spend 3.5 percent on its military, while sending nothing to Ukraine except insults from our president and vice president and the occasional sneer from our secretary of state. The great laggards of course are Spain and Canada, plus Slovenia, which is hardly a country at all.

Trump of course is notoriously fickle. Perhaps this latest flutter of common sense is only a refleciton of the fact that he hasn't talked to Putin lately and did spend nearly an hour chatting with Zelensky. He even hinted that the US might "find" some Patriot missiles to foil Russian attacks on Ukraine, which yesterday killed 23 civilians and wounded more than 300.

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