Once again, a willfully blind President Donald Trump is walking into a trap set by Russian leader Vladimir Putin — by agreeing to meet him for a summit in Alaska today.
No matter how many times Putin insults the president and ignores his calls for a total ceasefire in Ukraine, Trump returns for more humiliation. He refuses to recognize that Putin has no interest in peace.
After a few weeks of bluster about his “disappointment” with Putin, Trump has once again ignored a deadline he set (Aug. 8) for imposing secondary sanctions on Moscow.
Instead, he has agreed to reward the Russian leader with a summit before Putin even agrees to a temporary ceasefire. And so far, Trump is excluding President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from the meeting. Shades of 1938 indeed.
Never mind that Putin still insist