19 August 2025
Good Cop Bad Cop
President Trump acts as if Vladimir Putin has agreed to collaborate with him as a partner in a Good Cop Bad Cop routine for handling a presumptuously nationalistic Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But it isn’t just a routine for Putin. The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, pointed out that without a cease-fire, the whole melodrama only disguises the Russian leader’s relentless megalomania.
The White House meeting on resolving the Russo-Ukraine war was all for show. Trump was probably convinced by the obsequiousness of the other European leaders at that meeting that the Nobel Peace Prize committee will be as gullible as the MAGA crowd and award him the medal just for convening it. Following through with effective U.S. and European pressure on Russia to withdraw is necessary to deserve that kind of recognition.
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