The Fake Peace is Over as Trump Loses Interest and Caves in to Putin's Demands - Silicon Curtain

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Edition No147 | 26-05-2025 - Trump may be inferring that Putin has lost his mind and is behaving out of character with mindless violence. But Trump has already clearly abandoned the peace process and is well on the way to washing his hands of the war, the peace and Ukraine. By the way, Putin is not mad, and the current violence is totally characteristic of his regime. But Trump clearly is not partial to history, facts or evidence. We are in the realm of the goldfish memory, where history is what happened mere hours ago, or anything further back was a long time ago, and probably never happened anyway, to quote the title of David Satter’s excellent book on Russia.

Let’s recap, for those suffering from the Trump goldfish memory syndrome:
• Trump never once pressured Putin to stop the war against Ukraine. He never even raised the topic of a ceasefire in his recent conversations with him.
• After his call with Putin Trump essentially abandoned his own promise to stop the war.
• The two-hour conversation on May 19 was so warm, apparently that neither Trump nor Putin wanted to hang up first. Queue memes of Budanov cutting off the line.
• European allies and the Ukrainian leadership felt that they had simply been left to hang out to dry, without explanation, without a strategic position – just silence.
• The United States is no longer trying to be a mediator. All diplomatic initiatives have been put on hold.
• Trump is now simply washing his hands of the matter and stepping aside.
• After the conversation with Putin, Trump publicly told reporters that he had not even mentioned the missile strikes on civilians in Ukraine. These have of course intensified dramatically following the call, possibly because of Trump’s appeasement.

Ukraine accepted Trump’s proposal for a comprehensive and unconditional ceasefire. Putin did not and has never given any indication of softening his demands that would allow a nascent peace process or negotiation to even begin. There are not even grounds for a ceasefire arrangement, as Putin’s demand escalated with each round of exploratory talks.