This week there are two great quotes tied for the Quote of the Week (which does not pop up here on a weekly basis to be fair). Bothe quotes come from Victor Davis Hanson, and from the same article. They are both in reference to Trump's approach to the Ukraine-Russia war.
The first quote is to assuage the left's gleeful panic over Trump's not appearing to recognize that Russia did indeed start the war. Hanson points the truth out very early in the article:
Putin did start the war. Trump’s trolling aside, he knows that because he correctly pointed out that Putin invaded his neighbors in three of the last four administrations—but not his own, given Trump’s deterrence.
The second quote concludes the article with Hanson's presumption about Trump's recent tactics on the matter, which I share - it's about negotiating without giving up your position, and indeed, even more than that:
For all the media screaming and left-wing accusations, Trump’s recent antics have at least accomplished the following: the NATO nations, Ukraine, and Russia are all confused about what Trump is saying, and so now all the more want him to stop the war.
Truth.
