Bolt: Trump must not fall for dictator Putin’s Easter ‘truce’
It must be dawning on America’s president he’s being treated as a weakling by Putin and the dictatorships backing him. But if Trump falls for it, he’ll look dumb as well – and that’s lethally dangerous for the free world.
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Let’s hope Donald Trump learns that standing up to Vladimir Putin could work and doesn’t fall for this war criminal’s “Easter truce”.
It must be dawning on America’s president he’s being treated as a weakling not just by Putin but the dictatorships helping the Russian leader’s invasion of Ukraine – Iran, China and North Korea.
All four countries have been calling Trump’s bluff. Putin refuses to agree to Trump’s plan for a 30-day ceasefire; Iran refuses to stop work on a nuclear bomb; China refuses to give in to Trump’s trade war; and North Korea refused to back off its own nuclear weapons program.
In some cases Trump made wild threats, and not backed them up.
Last week, he threatened “there will be bombing on Iran’s nuclear sites” if Iran didn’t agree to a deal. But then he told Israel to call off its own bombing, saying he was “not in a rush”.
In February, he threatened to unleash “all hell” on Iran’s client Hamas if it didn’t release all its Israeli hostages. It didn’t and he didn’t.
There’s a pattern, and central to it is the world’s worst diplomat, Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff is a Trump buddy and real estate mogul, yet Trump made him his envoy to Russia, Iran and Hamas.
What a disaster. Witkoff is a dupe who declared a “friendship” with Putin, calling him “not a bad guy”.
He also bought the bull of Hamas, Jew-hating Islamist terrorists he claimed weren’t “ideologically intractable”.
In his nativity, Witkoff accepted these killers’ demands as reasonable. He told Trump he could stop Russia’s invasion by just giving Putin five Ukrainian provinces, much still held by Ukraine.
Last week he said Iran could keep its civilian nuclear program, until Trump overruled him.
Trump now seems to realise he’s being played. On Friday he said he’d stop trying to make peace in Ukraine if it got “very difficult”. His hawkish secretary of state, Marco Rubio, sidelined by Trump, said the US could lose patience in “a matter of days”.
Putin, hoping to keep the game going, tossed Trump a crumb, declaring an “Easter truce” for just 30 hours from Saturday.
It was fake, of course. Russia kept attacking, but Putin could now appeal to America’s far-Right as a Christian leader, unlike Ukraine’s Jewish president.
If Trump falls for it, he’ll look not just weak but dumb – and that is lethally dangerous for the free world.
Originally published as Bolt: Trump must not fall for dictator Putin’s Easter ‘truce’
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