Victor Davis Hanson: Pursuing Peace
President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, last Friday with sights set on a possible ceasefire.
Victor Davis Hanson explains what was (and wasn’t) said at the summit, why Russia is appealing directly to Trump and the American people, and how Trump - whether the Left likes it or not - could end this war he didn’t start on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” as posted in The Daily Signal.
“ Ukraine will not be in NATO.
They don’t have the military wherewithal.
They have the moral edge and the moral right—but they don’t have the military wherewithal.
Nor does Europe or the United States want to go to that length to give it to them against nuclear Russia to reclaim the Donbas—all of the Donbas—or Crimea.
The summit was about what we could expect.
Putin wants to win over America so then America will back off from Ukraine, and so it can get some more mileage westward and further deteriorate or erode or detrite the Ukrainian military.
The Ukrainian military is pretty tough.
It’s hanging in there.
It wants enough aid to leverage Putin.
And between those two poles, there will be a DMZ.
And if there is a peace settlement, it will be the work - whether the Left likes it or not - of Donald Trump, the one world leader, among the three, that has nothing to do with this war.”