COMMENT: Marty, we realize you have no respect for the Nobel Peace Prize after they gave it to Obama for absolutely nothing. However, we should all nominate you because we also know you have been working the back channels in Washington and Moscow. It seems like Trump followed your recommendations for Zelensky to back down from no territory to surrendering the Donbas, as you have poinently argued would end the war. I have a friend who was with an embassy in Moscow. He said what they did to you gave you more credibility than anyone else from the Russian view.
We also know you have been trying to beat your own computer. If anyone can do it, it has to be you.
Tell Scotty to hold off on beaning you up just yet.
Paul
REPLY: I have been getting that a lot lately. They will never nominate me. I am that evil white man Hillary talks about. I assume that having a bronze statue is more practical. Pigeons need a place to perch and shit.
I cannot verify that Trump took my strategy to insist that the Minsk Agreement be honored if he refused to exit NATO to force the EU to heel, and to threaten an executive order prohibiting any American funds from being invested in Ukraine. My recommendations would shift the burden to Ukraine and the EU, where it belongs.
Kallas can say the EU and Ukraine will reject any deal Trump does with Putin, so her bloodthirsty coniving needs to be circumvented. By demanding that the Minsk Agreement be honored, she cannot say this is Trump, and they had no say. The EU agreed and signed this deal, and then lied and never honored what they signed. Flipping this back onto the lap of Kallas, we would disarm her from claiming the EU was not part of any deal.
