It is very sad and disturbing that Donald Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio and the rest of the Trump foreign policy and national security team are defying the Republican record on Russia, which has always been strongly to repel the Russians, whether the old Soviet Union, or the present Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin.
The Republican Party prided itself historically as being tough on Russia, trying mightily to surpass the Democratic Party in that regard.
But really, all Presidents of both parties saw Russia as the ultimate rival that was a threat to world peace, and specifically to our European allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
But now, the Trump team is demanding that Ukraine concede the loss of territory to Russia in Crimea from 2014 and the more recent losses since 2022.
They also demand that Ukraine never be allowed to be a member of NATO.
What Trump and his team are doing is catering to Russia, and asking Ukraine to give up its sovereignty.
And for Trump to claim, wrongfully, that Ukraine started the war against Russia in February 2022 is an absolute outrage!
Trump, Vance, Rubio et al are practicing appeasment as Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain did toward Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany over Czechoslovakia in 1938, but that led to World War II the following year.
Giving in to bullies emboldens them further, but Trump and his team are not learning from history, and are endangering American national security as well as all of the NATO nations and our Asian allies!
This appeasement will only embolden China toward aggression against Taiwan, and North Korea to become a threat to South Korea and Japan!