Trump offers Putin a clumsy excuse to regain the former Russian territory of Alaska

There are people who claim that Trump is a great negotiator. Seeing what he is doing with Ukraine, I am beginning to question that.

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Trump blames Ukraine for Russian invasion for not giving in to Putin

Yesterday Trump held a press conference from Florida. You can watch the full video here. In response to a question from a media outlet about the fact that Ukraine has not been invited to the peace talks that the US is holding with Russia in Saudi Arabia, Trump responded as follows (point 13:03 of the video):

"Today I heard, oh, we weren't invited, well, you've been there for three years, you should have ended it three years, you should have never started it, you could have made a deal, I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given him almost all of the land, everything almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished, and not one dome would have been knocked down, but they chose not to do it."

With these words, what Trump is doing is blaming Ukraine for having been invaded by Russia because it did not make a deal with the invaders that would have meant giving them a part of its country.

Another example of the penetration of Russian propaganda among conservatives

Honestly, I find this statement nauseating, words that one would expect from a Russian ambassador, but not from the President of the United States. This shows what I have been denouncing for a long time: the great penetration of Russian propaganda among many conservatives in the United States, thanks to the efforts of unscrupulous guys like Tucker Carlson. Propaganda comparable to that which the USSR managed to introduce among a part of the American left decades ago, with disastrous results for the United States. And I'm not talking about any conspiracy theory: it was something that was revealed by Yuri Bezmenov, a former Soviet KGB agent.

Trump's statement morally disqualifies him as a supposed peace mediator in this war. Someone who repeats the lies of the invaders without blinking an eye, who blames the invaded for a war that they did not start and who reproaches them for having resisted that invasion, cannot act as a mediator.

The consequences for Alaska of that appeal to cowardice

What Trump did yesterday is a hymn to cowardice. And it is not a coincidence. A few days ago I warned here that the Kremlin has been fomenting cowardice in the West, in what deserves to be described as a textbook psychological warfare operation. I wonder what the US military assigned to such operations will say when they see their nation's president letting himself be fooled by Russia's operations.

Last Friday I already pointed out here that today these messages serve to obtain the surrender of Ukraine, but tomorrow they could be used for any other part of the West, such as the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in North Africa, coveted for years by Morocco. With this speech in favor of cowardice, Trump offers Putin the opportunity to recover Alaska, a former Russian territory that was bought by the United States in 1867 and that in 1959 became a state of the Union.

How many Trump supporters would send their children to die for Alaska?

Covering an area of ​​1.7 million square kilometres, Alaska is home to just 740,000 people. This is much smaller than the population of Donetsk Oblast in 2013 (4.3 million inhabitants), one of the regions of Ukraine that Russia claims.

Based on what Trump said yesterday, Putin would be stupid if he did not invade Alaska tomorrow, claiming, as he did with Ukraine, that he wants to recover a territory that belonged to the defunct Russian Empire. Let's see with what face Trump would declare a state of war after his declaration yesterday, blaming Ukraine for the war started by Russia for not giving in to Putin's blackmail.

To paraphrase one of the pro-Russian slogans that many conservatives repear now like parrots - and I say this because it is a slogan that Kremlin propagandists in the West began to spread in their campaign to foment cowardice - would Trump send his children to die over Alaska? Would Trump's supporters send their children to die over a vast, largely uninhabited territory in which fewer people live than in the city of Denver?

They are opening the doors for any tyrant to attack a part of the West

Trump and other conservatives are offering Putin something even greater than a victory in Ukraine, by taking up the slogans that Moscow’s propaganda networks have been running to promote cowardice and preemptive surrender: they are offering him any part of the West that Russia wants to seize. The Kremlin has gotten many so-called “patriots” in the West to ask others to give up part of their country and yield to a tyrant. What will they do when that or another tyrant invades another part of the West, after parroting that an invasion is not worth resisting?

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