President Trump’s reverential treatment of superpower leaders became painfully evident when he greeted madman Vladimir Putin in Alaska to resolve the war in Ukraine. He not only rolled out the red carpet — literally — but he also fawned all over the Russian dictator. Until the very end….
When the peace summit, so-called, was over, Trump looked defeated. He immediately assigned further negotiations to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and receded into his White House cubicle, aka Oval Office, upon returning to D.C.
Trump’s posture toward those in power was even more evident on his visit with China’s Xi Jinping. When it was over, he immediately put on hold an arms sale to Taiwan after Xi warned him not to interfere in the island’s future. Taiwan should be worried. Xi has indicated 2027 is the year of the proposed takeover.
When it comes to our “weakling” allies of many decades in Europe, Trump has no problem walking all over them, even pulling the plug on American NATO forces on the mainland. He last month completely alienated his sole European ally — Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni — when he publicly said she “begged” him for a photo op.
Trump is now in Turkey for an annual NATO Summit. Let’s see what threats and lambasts he makes this time.
