A win for Israel, a loss for Ukraine
As in November 2016, it took me most of post-election Wednesday to absorb the wonder of Donald Trump's accomplishment. He didn't just win the presidency this time, but won it by something close to a landslide. (The New York Times of course disagrees.)
I'll leave the analysis to others. I'm more interested in what Trump's victory means for the two wars that erupted on Joe Biden's watch. I don't think we'll hear any "cease fire now!" pleas from Donald Trump, after every Israeli victory, and that's a relief. Iran and its proxies are the enemy; Israel is our friend, and it's the only functioning democracy in the Near East. Alas, Trump's attitude toward Ukraine is something else entirely, and his vice-president-elect promises to be worse.
But who knows? Perhaps Trump will astonish us again. There are advantages in being mercurial.