Exactly. By far the fastest way to end the war would have been to increase the support for Ukraine so Russia would stop attacking.
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Anne Applebaum
If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.
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I suspect we have an idea of what those many phone calls to Putin were for that Trump crowed about.
Putin: We're going to start losing, badly!
Trump: No worries buddy. Let me help.
A) a strong Ukraine and a weak NATO/Europe
B) a strong, mobilization ready NATO/Europe and a marginalized Ukraine
(We can hope this what Trump is doing, but if it is, not so dumb. Not since Nixon has Europe hold its weight)
There is also a constant stream of error corrections and updates. Everything is bound together by the computing units in the F-35 - Can't fly without them
Trump might just save Putin from defeat.... maybe that is the true reason for stopping weapons and info.
Putin will just restart when recovered.
Thats not a peace.
Now Trump is choosing boldness, but only to save Putin and give him more power than he ever dreamt of.