“Bow down before me, you’re not a real country” vs. “We want to keep our freedom and self-determination” are incompatible positions. Trump diplomacy has aimed at getting Ukraine to bow down. Declining to play along with that isn’t ceding the diplomatic field, it’s rejecting imperialist demands.
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Any analysis that treats the erratic incompetence of the Trump administration seriously is in itself unserious