What Trump has just done to Ukraine is turning someone into blind in the middle of a shooting.
The Americans suspended sending to Ukraine of Military Intelligence in real time, after suspending the sending of weapons and ammunition. That is, in the midst of fierce fighting with Russian invasion troops, Americans make Ukrainians more difficult to defend their own country from brutal aggression.
Trump does not give the slightest ball to it, but there is something in international relations called moral posture – which helps explain how the United States and its allies defeated the Soviet Union in the last Cold War.
Trump proceeds to make it evident that smaller powers have no choice but to obey what the strong send. So much is part of a US -led alliance system – and that Trump himself is destroying with great speed.
To a large extent, the current US president is a symptom and does not cause a society that has broken in the middle, lost the notion of his own exceptionality and today does not even agree on what it is to be American.
The consequences that are already detected are dangerous to the country that he intends to return to a greatness he considers lost. And whose “restoration”-read the Make America Great Again’s vocafering base-is worth any price to be paid, including pleasing to those who consider it the main enemy, Russia.
Unlucky of the Ukrainians, who could not understand any of this. And they find themselves in the situation of having to capitulate – save a European miracle, capitulating Trump and Putin.
This content was originally published in Waack: Trump is leading Ukraine to surrender on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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