Friday, November 15, 2024

Wildcard

 With Trump elected as US president, all bets about world politics are off, and nobody knows what is to happen and what Trump will do. Including, I suspect, Trump himself.

Ukrainian columnist Oleksandr Kirsh wrote best about this, in the Obozrevatel:

"The New World under Trump becomes truly new: the main peculiarity of President 45/47

You say that Putin is unpredictable? But it is fully predictable, compared to Trump...

You say that there is the Pompeo's peace plan? You guessed wrong: the correct answer (from Trump) is that Pompeo will not be in his team, i.e. thank you for the service and get lost. Indeed, this does not mean that the plan will be forgotten, just that it will not be referred to this way.

You say that there is news for Ukraine - Crimea is gone because regaining it would be unrealistic? And Trump has news for his former advisor who announced this: he (Brian Lanza) was just elections organizer, and was not authorized to speak for Trump, so let him know his new place - he is an anonymous nobody, and we must wait what Trump himself will say on this topic (he can of course say absolutely the same).

Silly Orban, proud that Trump mentioned him already 1.5 times during the last year (though mistaking him for Erdogan), says things on behalf of Trump, allegedly told to him by Trump? Let's first figure out whether he is a Hungarian or a Turk to Trump, and then the details.

Trump's world is trumpocentric. The truths and the future are known to him and him alone, provided that he does not reconsider. Get used to this, world, and get used to this, Ukraine!"

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