From the USA Today / Yahoo!News:
"Trump will never stand up to Putin on Ukraine. It's on Congress to punish Russia. | Opinion
Today, Sept. 2, was supposed to be "Russia ends its atrocious and unlawful war in Ukraine" day.
What? Did you forget that President Donald Trump laid down a 50-day marker on July 14, a hard-and-fast deadline for Russia to end the hostilities and remake the peace it destroyed by invading Ukraine?
Maybe it slipped your mind because Trump stripped that deadline from his calendar just two weeks after announcing it, cutting that timeframe down to "10 to 12 days" on July 28 before letting that day pass 10 to 12 days later with no significant outcome.
Here's what we know about Trump and the war he once claimed he could end in a single day: He has no clue how to resolve this issue and zero fortitude for ever holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable.
Here's something else we've learned about Trump – he sets deadlines not as a means to accomplish something in the definable future but as a way to escape from immediate pressure to take action in the moment.
Congress could force Trump's hand by making life more difficult for Putin and the Russian economy. But that would require Republican leaders in Congress to stand up to Trump for being unwilling to stand up to Putin..."
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