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Vladimir Putin “has gone absolutely CRAZY,” President Trump posted Sunday night. We agree; how about some tough new sanctions to shock him back to his senses?
As Trump told reporters earlier that day, Putin is “sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all” — worse, is doing so when “we’re in the middle of talking” in the peace negotiations begun at the president’s demand.
Asked specifically if he’s open to slapping Moscow with fresh sanctions, the prez replied: “Absolutely, he’s killing a lot of people.”
Hmm: Asked about Trump’s remarks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at first expressed gratitude for him “launching this negotiation process,” but then blathered about “emotional overload” and “emotional reactions.”
Which sure sounds like Putin’s mouthpiece calling our prez hysterical.
Then there was Russia’s other response on Monday: launching an attack ever larger (with a record number of drones and at least nine cruise missiles) than the one Trump called “crazy.”
Our president is wondering “what the hell happened to Putin.”
Well, the Russian went into major isolation during the pandemic and has never entirely left it; his mental health may indeed have taken a serious turn for the worse — yet he’s far harder to dislodge than Joe Biden ever was.
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We recognize that all Biden’s sanctions, and the Europeans’, haven’t yet made Putin change course, but they flinched from imposing secondary sanctions — on the nations actively enabling Moscow’s war machine — that could prompt Beijing, in particular, into insisting Russia finally seek peace with Ukraine.
Trump will have plenty of support if he opts to tighten the screws: Sen. Chuck Grassley on Monday became the 81st senator to sign on to a bipartisan sanctions bill.
The president’s other option is to boost aid to Ukraine; maybe a one-two punch is the best way to get through to Vlad.
With Putin’s minion now practically mocking Trump, we see no other way to get the killing stopped.