Donald Trump is offering himself as the peace candidate and says he could negotiate a Ukraine-Russia deal between Ukraine and Russia. The populist and realist right are banging the drums for a negotiated end to the war, and they aren’t wrong. If we are strained merely arming Ukraine, we’d quickly reach a breaking point in a direct conflict with China. The answer is to build up our defense industrial base in a way that’d be necessary one way or the other. Putin has made it clear that his ideological and geopolitical goal is to re-establish a version of the Russian empire.
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