http://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/round-two-trump-excoriates-zelensky-rejecting-crimea-proposal-peace
Ukraine is a Trump-Trap. If Trump doesn't jusr WALK away, and soon, he is going to be stuck. he also needs to get out from under the thumb of Israeli, European, and US Neocons with regard to Iran and the middle-east in general. Abandoning Europe to its own fate (which doesn't look pretty at this point) is probably necessary.
I'm not exactly sure what to do about China and the BRICS in general. Except I am clear Trump has, IMO, maybe a 1:10 chance of "Making America Great Again" -- IF he strictly avoids foreign military adventures. I wouldn't give him 1:1000 odds if he allows himself to sucked into squandering time, resources, public support, and wealth on any more geopolitical dramas.
One of -- if not the -- biggest mistakes the US has made in geopolitics, was not trying hard to befriend Russia, instead of exploit it, after the peaceful breakup of the USSR. But the NeoCons are like NPCs in shooter game. You spend too much time trying to reason with them, your odds of winning go way down, real fast, every time.
I want to remind everyone that NONE of the populaions enslaved by the USSR actually chose Leninism. "The people" werent given a choice; that is what Leninism is all about: brutal oligarchy with no choice in anything. The Russian people did not CHOOSE the USSR...any more than did the Ukrainians, the Polish, the Georgians, the Hungarians, nor any other population captured by Lenin+Stalin and their brutal thugs.
That is what makes it so brain-dead for supposed "Americans" and other purported rational beings to want to PUNISH the great, great, grandchildren of the people who were FORCED into Leninist totalitarianism. I guess it is racism? But it seems even more irrational and ugly than that, to me.
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