The surprising fact about Trump 2.0, in stark contrast to the cold heartlessness of Biden, is how humanitarian Trump is. Sure, he doesn’t gush femininely about how his heart breaks over the poor, sweet victims of war and terrorism. But his policies are driven by humanitarianism. Nearly every time he discusses the Ukraine war or the Gaza debacle, he laments the loss of thousands of young lives and empathizes with the Auschwitz-like emaciation of Hamas’s hostages. He genuinely cares about the suffering of innocent people.
This compassion drives his calculus in drafting policy. He begins by analyzing the harsh realities. There are four potential outcomes of the war in Ukraine: (1) the deadlock continues indefinitely; (2) Ukraine surrenders; (3) Ukraine defeats Russia; (4) they negotiate.
Number One means thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people — mostly young men — die. One of the criteria of a just war is that it is winnable. Pouring young lives into a doomed war is immoral, even if the alternative is not fully punishing the offending nation. You don’t sentence young people to death-by-warfare just to signal your moral outrage. Ukraine…
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