if finland and sweden hadn't joined nato, they'd be obvious choices to potentially provide security in ukraine, given that ukraine was initially founded as a swedish colony. that said, i'm not sure how that could actually work in a way that makes sense.

the necessity of ending this before it accidentally goes nuclear should be apparent to any sane person, and i have little doubt that trump was sincere. i think perhaps he didn't fully understand the issues. he seems to now.

the russians are doing what they have to do, which doesn't mean that putin isn't an asshole. he is. he's cynical, he's viciously logical and he's oppressively cruel when he needs to be. it's hard for anybody with lofty ideals to walk away from putin without being at least a little bit crushed, and trump is hardly an idealist.

there's not going to be a meeting between putin and zelensky. everybody knows that.

if the war is inevitable, and your opponent is a cynical logic machine, the only thing left to do is profit. you can't blame the americans - the europeans want a war.