i cannot emphasize enough that if you thought trump would bring the war to a close or even make headway on a peace agreement then you are among the dumbest people alive www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
i cannot emphasize enough that if you thought trump would bring the war to a close or even make headway on a peace agreement then you are among the dumbest people alive www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
shoutout to a few pundits in particular
Mostly the ones who think it's the height of sophistication to act as if they've just exited a coma and have no memory of the last 10 years, so why wouldn't they take the president at his word?
He’s going to start a war of his own, because it is the clearest path to power.
Such as Marc Thiessen. Half tempted to renew to the Washington Post just to cancel my subscription again.
Isn't this another example of how small America has become? "do things my way or I'm leaving!"
I like that the headline implies that he’s “giving up” out of boredom or because it’s too hard.
yes.
Honestly, it's both. * His attention span is measured in seconds. Of course he's bored * As far as I can tell the only thing he puts hard work into is cheating.... at golf, his contractors, on his wife and with his taxes
I mean that’s probably the truth
Except for the part where he actually wants a peace deal. I don’t think he cares. Putin certainly doesn’t.
He thought he could just bully Ukraine into giving up. When that didn’t work, he gave up because like all bullies, he’s basically weak and lazy. (This, BTW, is why everyone should stand up to him on everything. He will back down, walk away, and give up if you make it unpleasant.)
Interested in peace for Ukraine? Nah. Interested in being able to say "I brought peace to Ukraine"? Now we're talking.
Yep. He thought his “superior negotiating” (aka bullying) would work
💯! He’ll be Bagdad Bob, saying he delivered peace as yet more missile strikes explode behind him.
Yep. He'll say he ended the war and rely on people simply believing everything he says or not knowing any better.
He’s really just realized that he’s not making progress on getting Ukraine to sell out in a massively unfavorable “peace” deal, which Russia would promptly disregard, at best they’d be invading again in a decade.
It's ok to name names. Being vague doesn't help anyone.
Putin just playing these morons. And they'll flip the blame to EU and sanctions when they couldn't get the deal closed.
I actually genuinely do think the Kremlin was hoping that Trump would help end the war on favorable terms for Russia. Russia fed their already-weak economy into the wood chipper for this war, they're about to begin drafting kids who fail their exams, and Europe is re-arming against them.
Maybe. Doubtful. Russia's economy seems to depend on war and military industries now. Europe will never buy its oil again; Putin will depend for his continued "legitimacy" on continual wars to fight, and China has every incentive to keep their aggression going. We want peace. Putin is different.
That's why Putin wanted a quick operation. Russia's economy is now a war economy and shifting away would be very painful.
Put another way: Putin's option of "choosing violence", into perpetuity, is a bad option, from his perspective. Except for all the others.
Name them
Shadi Hamid Stephen Walt most Republican foreign policy writers currently in good standing
Ditto Gaza
I do think one bit of good (inadvertently) came out of it, which was Germany coming to grips with the fact that war guilt is not an excuse for shirking its defense or Europe's. Yes, we all know "German rearmament" sounds icky; get over it.
Hey, we were just talking about one of those pundits yesterday! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Is @NewYorkPitchBot here yet?
WaPo is standing in for the moment.
Yes. bsky.app/profile/nytp...
Have to say on this & most Trump issues (tariffs, ‘Mar a Lago Accords,’), Financial Times pundits have been clear-eyed, Martin Wolf in particular. No fan-fic or wank-schtick. www.ft.com/martin-wolf
So basically: Our shakedown of Ukraine didn't work so we are going to stop getting in our friend russia's way. They can continue their war and we can stop looking stupid pretending that we don't just see it as another way to grift/steal.
It's amazing all these pundits have worse political instincts than the average Resist Lib whose only POV is "Orange Man Bad," because he IS bad and too many pundits skirt around just saying that.
So you criticize “resist libs” for saying “orange man bad”, then say “orange man bad”. You’re not helping.
No, I was saying that the average Democratic voter is right about Trump, because they will say what he is, and the pundit class is wrong. I wasn't criticizing them at all. Try reading things with just the slightest amount of charity.
Meow
Tell my bro buddie friends in engineering, too. They think they understand "war" and "peace" and "Russia" because they can code 🙄
Lol relatable. I have an acquaintance who thinks that Trump has any sort of plan for the tariffs and Ukraine. He used to watch those bro content creators (misogynists). There's an overlap there
peace talks are hard and trump is a big dumb lazy diaper baby
people who thought james buchanan would help prevent civil war
I though Trump said he was going to solve/end the war in Ukraine on DAY ONE in office. It IS now well past January 21, 2025. Trump broke that promise.
Of course he is. Trump is an idiot.
So the “I can end the war with one phone call” was just Trump being Trump. A lying egotistical, narcissistic dumbass. Why anyone would believe a word that comes out of mouth is beyond me.
I'm surprised he hasn't offered to send our troops to help Russia yet.
Trump has all the negotiating finesse of a hungover used car salesman on a Saturday morning.
Dismantling the department of education so that they have Republican voters for generations
Today's Ministry of Truth: Short Attention-Span Theater. Doubleplusungood.
Jamelle, what are you talking about? The president will end this war within 24 hours, remember?
Barbaric… so sad.
Poor baby. I have zero empathy for Rubio. He took this job knowing Putin *wants* war, and that Trump has the attention span of a goldfish.
If you've been asleep since early January, Trump said he'd have the war ended before his first day in office. Surprise! Didn't happen. He did however completely back Putin. He has no interest in Ukraine other than to help Putin take it over.
Progress.... tell the invading country to remove its troops from Ukraine What else is there to negotiate? A criminal breaks into your house - remove him, simple as that
Quite the deviation from “ending the war in 24 hours”.
America has been excluded from the conversation because of DJT. He doesn't get to sit at the grown-ups table with the European nations and Canada.
But but Mangolini was going to end Biden’s war on day one!
Peace in Ukraine is no different than reducing cost of living etc. They were all just hollow statements to get elected. Trump has been consistently proven to be a total fraud but it doesn’t matter because his supporters are a cult.
Just so fucking tired of all the damage the truly stupidest among us are doing.
He’s just brought war on ourselves. They are confederates. They want to go back in time.
I'm old enough to remember "Daddy Warbucks" War turns billionaires into trillionaires. Simple as that.
At this point the most I'm hoping for is that he doesn't help the Russians any more than he already is, or sabotage European efforts to help...
Do MAGA people actually care about Ukraine war at all? I doubt it it was just something they were instructed to complain about.
Most couldn't find Ukraine on an unmarked map. The ones that could were just in it to be disingenuous lying sacks of shit.
This is failure by design. You are flipping the bird to all global partners when you make the highly compromised Li’l Marco, who gets less respect than cantaloupe, the representative of your diplomatic mission. Dead on arrival.
Rubio is singularly pathetic.
Wait, you mean he’s not going to get them both in a room and end it within 24 hours? I am so disillusioned now.
He’s ready to “move on” I’m sorry but when did he ever start?
So what are they going to do.
Well yeah the dumbest people alive are the ones who voted for him expecting him to accomplish anything positive. His voting base is comprised of dummies, the gullible, and racists.
Fortunately, I never did.
Souless, feckless ghouls.
He misstated. I think he meant I will bring war closer to our shores. He has no desire for peace. He could give two F’s about anyone but himself.
Marco is a Coward and Traitor
Rubio Greyjoy going through his Reek arc, and it's hard to watch.
They can't believe the world is not rolling over for them like their "homegrown" cult does.
Day one.
True. Time for letting go of defensive plays. Offensively attack Russia.
Those of us who don’t watch fox tv knew exactly what he would do.
Wait, the orange deal maker is bailing on Ukrainian and Russian war?
So, no Nobel Peace Prize?
The dumbest people alive are in the Trump administration. (Not including Trump voters.)
Rubio can't even hold his head up anymore. I think he now realizes he's been had.
He knew he had to pretend to care about Ukraine’s survival until he got the economic destruction in full swing. Now, nothing matters anymore. He can drop the act and go all in on helping his patron.
I imagine many of the same people who said his first administration was great because of a 'Strong economy and no new Wars' are among those
I had a false hope that Trump would try to play overlord to Putin. The collar and leash are stronger than I assumed.
Bring the war to close = abandon US allies in Europe
Clearly you’re talking to almost all of the Press, because they’re sure as hell sold this to the American people
Haha yup bsky.app/profile/jame...
Trump competent at anything other than stirring the bigots' shitty little egos... LOL. This is propaganda distraction to throw shade on the truth of Krasnov, agent of Putin. The Russian tyrant has not interest in ending the war.
One of the more enraging pieces of this is that the oval office blowup was triggered by Zelenskyy pointing out that Putin couldn't be trusted to honor a ceasefire. He was proven *exactly* right.
I wonder how all the undecideds that I talked to while canvassing that said Dump would be better on foreign affairs than Harris are feeling right about now as he gives up on Ukraine, the war in Gaza rages on, and he’s threatening new invasions of multiple allies.
They are probably still blissfully ignorant. I wonder more about the nonvoters who just didn’t like either candidate (it’s NOT about choosing a life partner, folks!) or those that just couldn’t be bothered to vote. 😖
“Move on” is doing some heavy lifting for “give up” here
Yet his cultists manage to rationalize all his decisions. It's both fascinating and horrifying to watch.
LITTLE MARCO FAILED. His unfit for this job. He has no interest in PEACE for UKRAINE.
Rubio just arrived in Ukraine and he's ready to quit negotiations to end a major war in Europe. Why did this guy want to be chief diplomat of the US?
Trump announces he's ready to "move on" immediately after signing the MOU with Ukraine. Why should Ukraine sign the full minerals deal next week?
Truth
Apparently screaming at Zelensky for not wearing a tie didn't change the situation on the ground in Ukraine or Putin's willingness to keep killing for no actual gain.
He’s so stupid
💯💯💯
And I just saw a "Trump for Peace" bumper sticker yesterday.
All I know is that #Krasnov as peacemaker was morally problematic from the start. It’s no less morally repugnant for the lives that counted in good faith on help. Someone must help Ukraine.
A little louder, please. Half of Michigan didn't hear you
#47 has zero power! If he’s looking for an enemy, he only needs to look in a mirror.
Won’t have to go far. Did you see that giant mirror with the golden frame that now hangs on the Oval Office wall?
Whorehouse decorating, which shouldn’t be a surprise.
Vaguely remembering how people, including pundits, were claiming that Republicans and Trump would be better than Democrats and Biden / Harris on Ukraine and Gaza up till recently. Just zero care for who owns Trump.
Yup, when are we just going to acknowledge a lot of this is down to pure voter gullibility.
Trump doesn't have the cards.
“I can end the war in one day” 😂😂😂
Lying liar lies about ending war in Ukraine Russia started: he's bored with the whole thing now. News at 11.
Time for Rubio to move on.
He doesn't want to admit failure, so he lost interest.
We all still know failure when we see it. So does Vlad.
Melania probably agrees. All promises... Little to zero delivery.
Honestly, this is better than any result i thought they'd reach.
I think Trump thought Putin respected him more than Biden and would end the war as a “favor.”
We all knew this bag of dicks has no negotiating power anywhere. He's an international joke. The whole world is laughing at him and no longer respects America. He kisses Putin's ass, and Putin mocks and humiliates him to all of Russia. Donald Trump is pathetic and weak in front of the whole world.
Most are not dumb, just disingenuous.
I was telling people something like this before the election, and of course the trumpsters laughed and kept saying there were "no new wars" in his first term. They're so gullible.
This is unfortunately true.
Putin thought Trump could force a capitulation from Zelenskyy but Europe stepped up and the Ukrainian will is a strong as ever. Putin will try to exert control by getting the US to fight for Russia and subdue Ukraine 🇺🇦 . My guess is under the pretense of “peacekeepers”.
"Peace in Ukraine? Who cares, as long as we can get access to their mineral wealth? We can do a deal with Russia just as well. Maybe better!"
The President completely caved to Russia’s demands and refused to apply any pressure on Putin. He only dealt harshly with one side - Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor. How did he think he’d end the war without dealing more firmly with Russia?
So the way I read this-looks like the priority for Trump is the minerals deal not so much peace. “This is not our war” is not what US leadership is supposed to look like and if they walk away Trump can never again bash Biden on this issue-it becomes his political albatross.
This man has never seen a problem that is difficult to not walk away from.
Wait, what happened to the Art of the Deal? What happened to the master negotiator? He’s just gonna throw in the towel because peace is too hard? Wow. Just fucking wow.
So do we take it that Putin told Trump to sit down and be quiet?
Right? I can't handle one more pundit saying that Trump failed yet again. No, he didn't. Putin is thrilled and Trump never had any intention of doing anything but this.
It is obvious that Trump voters are either evil or dumb as hell
They are both.
I guess tRump will never get that Nobel Peace Prize or as he described it, the Noble Peace Prize.😂
Christ on a cracker. He said SCHOOLS WERE PERFORMING ONE DAY GENDER ASSIGNMENT SURGERIES without parent knowledge. And people voted for him. This is mild in comparison.
This attitude should get traitor donald nominated for a Nobel p Peace Prize by war crimes tyrant putin.
Indeed
Let's recap the felon melon's accomplishments in four months: Higher prices Higher taxes Higher unemployment Retirement savings decimated Rule of law suspended Destroyed US alliances No peace in Ukraine (invaded by his buddy Putin) Gutting Medicaid, Medicare, SSA $30 million spent on golfing
It was always a lie. He’s more interested in pumping his own meme coin, grifting off the Oval Office, having the Saudis 🇸🇦 shove money into his golf properties & hoping Putin 🇷🇺 likes him. It was NEVER about Ukraine.
I wish you were my next door neighbor. I'd sit on the porch with you every day to discuss.
Cutting his loses. Cat go against Putin and can’t go against Ukraine due to public opinion- I think? Either way he has many more important things to destroy domestically.
Is this true even if we believed he’d bring the war to a close by facilitating Russia’s conquest of Ukraine?
Said war would end day one after he was in office Lied again
Move on? Thought Trump said he’d end the war in one day? Surprise surprise… not.
The only “headway” he was ever gonna make was crippling Ukraine’s ability to defend itself
Exactly
I don't consider myself dumb but I thought he would force a "peace" agreement by withholding support which he tried but he didn't expect Europe to respond the way they did.
Rubio’s statement reveals the absolutely irresponsible character of TrumpoCRACY: Blathering and promising “great and beautiful” things but delivering nothing but failures and treason. Trump’s gambling on war and peace like in a casino. Total disaster for Ukraine ‼️ 🌍 will hate Trump forever‼️
Bears repeating
"Among the dumbest people alive" Facts. 🤣🤣🤣
Further proof that Trump's entire plan to end the war was to pull all US support for Ukraine and insult its leader. And that Trump fully believed Zelensky would cave. That was the plan. Didn't work, so time to move on. Because the actual way to end this war isn't approved by his boss in Moscow.
Neville Rubio
Abandoning our actual ally Ukraine, to help out the convicted felon's puppetmaster Putin!! If it were up to him, he'd hand Ukraine over on a silver platter!! #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Hair Furor was refused what he believed was his slice of the pie by both sides and will now slink off to find some other countries to shake down. Try Xi. I hear he just loooooooves you. 🤣
That's magats in a nutshell
Rubio is a POS.
Ummm, the EU IS NOT pulling a Trump surrender. They will kick Putins arse.
Yet another lie from the Trump Regime: Trump says he can end the Russia-Ukraine war in one day. Russia’s UN ambassador says he can’t apnews.com/article/trum...
*the art of the deal.
the shart of the deal.
These people are such unserious people it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. "President Trump has spent 87 days" on this Rubio says. Oh wow almost three whole months trying to end a war Putin spent likely over a decade manufacturing. Dems spent three years on this and never waivered.
Of course this is unfortunately completely predictable because, along with many other reasons, the Trump Administration actually supports Russia in this war so why would they out in much effort
Sure, that's what our country is known for throughout the world. When something is difficult, just quit the effort, just move on. Ain't it wonderful how f..king great we are now?
No one knew peace in Ukraine could be so difficult.
This is an extremely true skeet
Why does Marco Rubio always look like he's headed for the principal's office? I've never seen a more depressed man.
Leaders and press who equivocated about it while knowing better deserve a special place in hell.
moving on…
Little man looks sad.
There are over 70 million of the dumbest people on earth. Let me ask a simple question: in a world of 8 billion, how did we get such a large number of dumb, privileged, entitled people? Is it air? water? diet? drugs? Or just FoxNews?
It’s not only the people who voted for him, it’s also those who didn’t bother to vote at all that got us here.
Absolutely. I know every "reason" given.
all the above?
The less the 🍊🐖 is involved in something, the better it's chances of succeeding.
Trump and Putin have a long history, this was always a given, the rest of The world will continue the fight, allowing Putin to just invade any country is a recipe for World Autocracies to flourish
If he can’t do something in 2 weeks, he quits. Maybe the press can ask him if the lives of young Ukrainians and Russians are no longer important to him?
Ah yes. tRump got his orders from Putie.
The serial rapist is just handing Ukraine over to the serial terrorist.
I mean, I thought he'd bring the war to an end, by having the US enter it on Russia's side.
Trump supporters have WAY too much confidence in that man!
I feel like Trump just cannot do hard things. If the payoff takes too long, he cannot power through and get to the goal. It just feels like another thing that would make him easy to manipulate.
I’m reminded of a dude I knew in the Navy who regularly told me “if I had like 12 really smart people in a room, I could fix all the world’s problems.” That summarizes the mind of basically every single one of this government’s most powerful dumbasses, including the big wet boy himself
The “peace president no new wars” leftists were the dumbest MFers on the planet, especially the Gaza tunnel vision ones
The big thing was get headlines for starting the talks, then quietly slink away.
But we knew that as most, if not all, voted for Trump.
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Rubio is unqualified to be the Secretary of State. He's taken on the persona of #DonTheCon 😡...cruel and vindictive.
Ready to move on from WAR like it’s some sort of school event and not an armed conflict.
Peace will not happen with the felon in the mix he's just going to use it as an excuse to leave Nato
The war "ending" was always about giving it to Russia. That was not a mystery.
..& when Russia takes Ukraine, it will not stop there.
Trump fails again. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
It’s up there with people who believed Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025
He assumed that he could just make Zelensky capitulate. Not all people in the world are as cowardly, cynical, and feckless as US Republicans, Donald.
Recall the peace in the Middle East promise? Sighhhh
Rubio always looks ashamed, but he doesn't let that stop him from being an evil jackass.
We have millions of them, sadly. 🙄
I fucking told you so. --Kamala Harris youtu.be/KrD1MLaGQfQ?...
Fucking liar. youtu.be/wFW8_8YIpYE?...
You get a follow for posting those. My stomach is in knots with these reminders of what we lost. JFK correctly told us “democracy is not perfect and freedom has its difficulties”. Rational voters don’t expect perfection, but they should expect integrity and intelligence. We could’ve had that.
I guess it depends on how easy you think it is to knuckle under Ukrainians. The evidence of the last twenty years or so seems to be not very.
More WaPo sanewashing. The real lede is that liddle marco's utter ineptitude for world diplomacy and his 34x convicted humiliator #feloniousDFG have removed all doubt that #putinsGOP grift is now the ONLY reliable US objective anywhere, ever.
yep
I really do think that, deep down, many of them realize how stupid they are but are willing to trade their humanity to be shielded from the “other”
Promises made, promises broken.
This is abuser talk. This is dismissive of a very real issue and it is coming from a man that holds grudges over minor things for decades. My ex was always telling me to "get over it" with a dismissive tone.
Trump has never achieved any peace accord anywhere.
The art of the Deal😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 such a fraud
Not one journalist during the campaign dismissed the “24-hour to end the war” blatant lie as preposterous. Who could have seen this coming….everyone
Great Secretary of State you are little Marco.
“I will end the war in a matter of days” Trump negotiating with Putin:
To be fair, his promise to be a dictator has been well and fully realized.
We are the dumbest people alive. I say 'we' because although MAGA are obviously pretty fucking stupid, we allowed MAGA to exist and to flourish. I'm afraid that we're going to have to toughen up a little bit and turn the other cheek less often. Allowing Fox News to lie was pretty fucking stupid.
But what about, “one phone call and it’ll be over”?
There are many.
Longest 24 hours in history.
So far. Don't forget that today has been extended so Congress doesn't have to authorize tariffs
Another Trump win to make America great
His idea of "peace" is Ukraine gets annexed by Russia.
Oh yeah
Art of the Deal!
Like, it`s just gaming for him. He doesn`t need to achieve anything. He doesn`t need to lie or tell the truth. He doesn`t need to bring peace to anywhere or anyone. Basically, Trump is a Zombie.
Yup - believing ANYTHING Trumpton n his Robber Barons promised or say now relegates you to the looney bin! AND history will NOT forget!!! 🤣
But but but Gramma Trump is afwaid of wowd waw twee! Wawd abowd wowd waw twee?!
Marco never won any awards for being the smartest guy in any room, including his hotel room.
His entire "peace plan" just consisted of bullying Zelenskyy into an unconditional surrender followed by Putin letting him have a tiny bit of the rare earth minerals and some personal kickbacks. The plan died the moment Zelenskyy refused to surrender.
BEYOND disgraceful!
Yeah it was so obvious from that embarrassing Oval Office meeting that Trump gives zero shits about Ukraine 😠
I need to re-evaluate the definition of "DAY 1"
The guy has no idea what he's doing, and you have these cowards like Rubio who's just doing what he's told. This is much too complicated for their level of qualification and understanding. This is serious business, not Fox and Friends. They are an embarrassment here and globally. Rubio is finished.
People not realizing he literally put Russian operatives into the government directly are still 4 steps behind.. he's gonna help Russia if he helps anyone.. dude is effectively Putin's lap dog.
. Oh, dear On Day One, we hardly knew thee. .
He's probably bored because there's no chance of bragging on this issue.
I guess he's moved on from that lowering prices of "gross-er-rees" on day one thing too . . .
And Rubio's the 'best' they have
Exactly!