Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet
Like it or not, we are not in Kansas anymore.
President Trump is taking the country down a very different geopolitical path. The yet-to-be-determined future of the Land of Oz lies ahead, especially in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific.
One thing is abundantly clear. Globally-speaking, it is Trump’s world now. The self-defeating passivity of the Biden Administration is gone, and the 47th president, for better or worse, is forcefully asserting himself on the global stage.
We saw hints of what is likely to come on Trump’s first day in office. While signing a series of executive orders in the Oval Office, Trump strikingly put Russian President Vladimir Putin on notice.
Essentially, Trump told Putin he is losing in Ukraine. Commenting that “he isn’t doing so well,” he observed that Putin is “grinding it out.”
Trump then twisted the knife, noting that “most people thought that war would have been over in about one week and now you are into three years.” He continued claiming that “we have numbers that almost 1 million Russian soldiers have been killed.”
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