[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Discussion on Ukraine, and the Trump/Putin rapprochement

[Ted Goertzel]

 The Today’s Issues group will meet this Sunday, February 23, 2025, at 9:30
to discuss Trump’s meeting with Putin and the future of the war in Ukraine.
The group meets on occasional Sunday mornings in person in the parlor of
the Religious Education building next to the Church or you can join us on
Zoom.  Click Here to Enter the Zoom Room
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09>
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Here is some suggested reading, but you may have found others.

Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/politics/trump-russia-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE4.eCPh.WmxyE9a4cSGM&smid=url-share>

   From the NY Times Feb 19   This attempts to be neutral, but ends up
being pretty negative.

It was hard to find a supportive essay, but I did find this one in the New
York Post.
Trump is making Europe squirm — to force a lasting peace in Ukraine
<https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/opinion/trump-is-making-europe-squirm-to-force-true-peace-in-ukraine/?utm_source=chatgpt.comb>

Here is a sampling of critical commentary:

George Will, Washington Post
A spurious U.S. ‘realism’ about Ukraine flirts with catastrophe
<https://wapo.st/3ETqtMI>

The American Betrayal of Ukraine Begins
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/18WPqkFrZfodvN0_FotZZPAY7lkC2fQHbOHF5GUsIm0k/edit?tab=t.0>.
   A strongly negative article from the National Review

 Dave Cress suggests that this article may help to explain Trump’s motives:

   Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/trump-russia-ukraine-putin-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU4.gBTC.1nyTvIjiYObM&smid=em-share>
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