Thursday, December 4, 2025

Getting Real About Ukraine

If you care about the outcome in Ukraine, or about how Trump looks when his efforts there fail to produce a ceasefire, I have a column you should read. It is at a site called GZERO Media and is entitled “The Ukraine peace push is failing. Here is why.” Author Ian Bremmer is a foreign policy entrepreneur and sometime professor of foreign policy.

There is a real chance Trump’s actions in Ukraine will have an outcome like Kissinger’s in Vietnam. Namely a face-saving way to get us disengaged from a brutal no-win situation, regardless of the carnage left behind.