Friends, it's the Associated Press versus Donald Trump, and with any luck not only will this battle royal take down the A.P. but the whole legacy media establishment too. I'm licking my chops in anticipation! Read all about it in my latest article:
https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2025/02/19/get-out-and-stay-out-legacy-media-n2652464
The animosity between the U.S. and Ukraine is growing as the Trump Administration reaches out to Russia in an effort to bring an end to the fighting. If Ukraine isn't careful, America will cut it off and let it fend for itself, which of course it could if the Europeans put their money, and more importantly their troops, where their mouths are. That'll be the day, huh?
Dr. Waddy from Jack : THis is a terribly poignant time. Who could blame any Ukrainian leader for seizing on an apparent opportunity to enjoy the same exceedingly good fortune accruing to nearby Poland? That is: proven protection from Russia itself!
ReplyDeleteZelensky has been a personally brave leader of Ukraine's astonishing repulse of Russia's intended conquest. But grim reality has risen to the fore: Russia will react to any Ukrainian accession to Nato with all the power it thinks necessary to prevent this, to them, unendurable affront and decisive national security threat. There is no way to dissuade Russia from this.
So the proven guarantee of Nato protection is sadly unavailable to Ukraine. Zelensky must come to grim terms with this sad reality. President Trump in his crude sometimes ad hominem fashion is expressing his disapproval of Zelensky led resistance from Ukraine to a peace agreement which CANNOT include Nato membership for Ukraine. Pres. Trump, with U.S. interests his prime consideration, must take this stand.
We are shamefully in debt to Ukraine for foolishly encouraging Ukraine to hope for such deliverance from the terrible and historically proven threat of Great Russian oppression. I hope our side in the negotiations will promise to make amends to Ukraine, in help rebuilding and in such support against future invasion which can be negotiated with Russia.
Trump is lying about Ukraine to try and convince his MAGA followers that Ukraine should be lucky with what it gets. Given so many of his followers don't care -- or can't discern -- that Trump is engaging in a disinformation campaign regarding the peace process, he'll get some significant support. But, he also underestimates Ukraine's will regarding its holding on to their country.
ReplyDeleteThe good news is that ever since the CBS poll came out demonstrating that Trump had a 53-47 approval v. disapproval rating, four poll since then show Trump underwater (disapproval > approval). That polling does not include the two gigantic whoppers of Trump lying that Ukraine started the war with Russia, and that Zelenskyy has a 4% approval rating (his actual rating is 57%). Hopefully the decline in his approval ratings will wake up his enablers in Congress.
Rod
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Before Patel's welcome confirmation today I was watching on Fox some of the oh so righteous lamentations expressed by Dems. "He's very partisan and FBI Director is an office which demands no partisanship!" What unalloyed HUMBUG on their amoral parts, the poor humbled dears!! They deserve every bit of the powerlessness they "feel" now. They couldn't stop one of DJT's Cabinet nominees unless we consider his first DOJ nominee, who withdrew. And that office turned out fine in the hands of hombre Pam Bondi. America is flying high and its glorious!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I read your article; its very well taken. I fully agree: bring it on!!! These people have been asking for this beyond forever and I hope its consequences reach into their shamefully compromised journalism schools, which are the fount of so many of these marxist, post Watergate two generations removed automatons. (I mean, being an idealistic journalism student and being given to understand that if you do not cleave to the party's unrelenting stance, you have no future in a profession for the entry to which you have already devoted much cash and time. . . .?)
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: We cannot deny Russia's IMMENSELY destructive power, should it ever
ReplyDeletechoose to use it to the full. It cannot BUT be a prime consideration for us even though the U. S. and perhaps China are the only countries with the ability to face it down but always with the harrowing risk that Russia might nonetheless strike. We cannot risk that except for the most profound of national security threats and Ukraine's integrity does not satisfy that requirement. We already have the probably decisive power of a Nato recently greatly enhanced by the addition of the hard fighting Swedes and Finns, to deter any probably unlikely Russian advance. Again, I think Russia seeks only security, prosperity and deference.
And again, again, I hold we owe Ukraine recompense for recklessly encouraging their dream of being invulnerable to savage Great Russian oppression through Nato membership. Let us do the decent thing: help them rebuild and help them negotiate their relative independence (nothing more is possible ) from Russia with our support as far as grim reality allows it.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I think Rod often makes creditable use of empirical evidence but I am as perverse as to dismiss anything CBS says. How terribly they have degraded since through the bizarre far left interlude we have endured since the '60s, they have been an enthusiastic participant in its onslaught on our civilization!
ReplyDeleteJack, I couldn't agree more that we owe Ukraine an apology and a heck of a lot of aid, when this craziness subsides.
ReplyDeleteRod, you're right that Trump's average job approval/disapproval numbers are coming close to parity. That's a pity, but hardly surprising, given the media campaign against him. Until his own core supporters start jumping ship, however, I suspect he won't be deterred from doing what he feels is right. Bear in mind also that many of these polls are LOW QUALITY, Dem-biased polls, as election after election continues to demonstrate.
Russia might have considered further military adventures had its invasion of Ukraine gone better. I suspect they've learned their lesson and then some!
Nick, do you have any evidence that the polls are LOW QUALITY? I have taught polling for over 20 years, so if you have a source that indicates that they are low quality, I would like to know what it is. Most polls have a history of leaning slightly (around one point) Dem (such as CNN) and those leaning slightly Rep (Rasmussen). Many are close to zero in their leaning - such as Emerson College whose director is a former student of mine. But, I don't have any literature that has done a thorough analysis of the quality of the polls that have delivered Trump's recent declining numbers. Just stating that you FEEL a poll is of low quality makes it one.
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