US officials become more horrible by the hour

 Statements of Jason Miller, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, from the CNN:

"On the pause in aid to Ukraine, Miller said Trump is being aggressive in his attempts to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to a deal that would stop the war.

“President Trump is the only person, the only person talking about stopping the killing, and sometimes leaders can use the carrot, sometimes they can use the stick,” Miller said. “And in this case, I think President Trump is using the 2 by 4 to go and get his point across to President Zelensky, and that is that President Trump wants to stop the killing. Zelensky has got to get back to the table. He has to take this seriously.”"

This is the language used to refer to a democratic ally who was disarmed and promised protection by the USA, and is suffering a genocidal attack by a rogue superpower that is a strategic enemy to the USA. Now, the US administration wants to use the stick on Ukraine. As for the promised carrot, I don't see it under any circumstances. Unless you call a carrot the promise to deprive Ukraine of its occupied territories, to keep it out of NATO and to rob its mineral resources.