Sunday Thoughts

After recording the show and thinking about things while editing it, I think we might be about to see the end of the Trump presidency. I cannot get over the scene of Senator Poofberry and Senator Stolen Valor declaring that they are now running Ukraine policy – while in Kiev. So far, not a word from anyone in the Trump administration about it. That means they are either too stupid to see what is happening or they can do nothing about it.

The only positive spin is that they know Graham is lying and does not have the votes to get the bill through the Senate or they know the House will ignore it. That is not much of a positive. Foreign Policy is the domain of the executive and the only way a president can conduct foreign policy is if the rest of the world thinks he is in charge of foreign policy. Otherwise, he is nothing more than a grocery clerk running errands for whoever is calling the shots.

If Trump cannot get this under control in the next couple of weeks, his party will abandon him. It is not as if the Cuck Party was enthusiastic for him. They have fallen in line thus far mostly because he has had oligarch support for his domestic agenda. If Lindsey Graham is able to put a saddle on Trump and ride him around like a pony on foreign policy issues, then everyone is going to wonder if they are backing the right horse, to mix metaphors.

Of course, Trump’s foreign policy team is full of people who either lack experience or have a reputation for duplicity and perfidy. The fact that Mike Waltz was able to talk his way into Trump’s inner circle opens the possibility that the Blob sent these men in to destroy the Trump administration from the inside using foreign policy as the primary vector. That might explain why Rubio often looks like he is battling a monumental case of constipation.

Regardless of the causes, the next couple of weeks could be momentous. It appears that the Russians are running out of patience with Trump. The rumor is they will present harsh terms to the Ukrainians with a tight decision window. At the minimum, they will tell the West that the Istanbul deal now has a short expiry window. Once that window closes, the next offer will be much worse. That means Trump’s time to make a deal with the Russians is ending.

That means he will have lost control of his foreign policy. That alone could be enough to spook the oligarchs that have been backing him thus far. At the minimum it puts the administration on the backfoot and emboldens his enemies, especially on the Supreme Court, which is carefully monitoring which way the wind is blowing in Washington. This is the first crisis of Trump 2.0 and it could very well be what defines his second term.

Topics

• Foreign Policy
• Ukraine
• Iran
• China
• The Curse Of Empire