President Trump Cancels Meeting With Vladimir Putin

Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2018

….in Argentina with President Vladimir Putin. I look forward to a meaningful Summit again as soon as this situation is resolved!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2018

This is another disappointment:

“President Trump on Thursday announced he would not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as planned at the G-20 summit over tensions with Ukraine.

The announcement, which came on Twitter, came roughly an hour after Trump told reporters the meeting would “probably” go ahead as planned.

“Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in Argentina with President Vladimir Putin,” Trump wrote. …”

During the campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised a thaw in our relationship with Russia. President Trump has delivered the exact opposite. Instead of normalizing relations, we have piled round after round of sanctions on Russia and have pretty much started a new Cold War.

The GOP establishment and the mainstream media had a meltdown after the Helsinki summit when President Trump publicly lamented the fact that our relationship with Russia had gotten so bad. The Trump administration has sold Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine which Obama refused to do. Congress gave Ukraine $500 million in security assistance last year while balking at funding the border wall. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has offered Ukraine military assistance over Crimea to protect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

It was conflict over the Balkans that started World War I. It was Danzig and Neville Chamberlain’s guarantee of Poland’s territorial integrity that started World War II. The United States has utterly no national interest at stake in embroiling ourselves in Slavic border disputes. No one in America except globalists cares about Crimea, Donetsk or the Kerch Strait. This is a European problem which should be left to Europeans to sort out. The only interest we have is staying out of it.

Note: I’m not taking sides in the ongoing Russia vs. Ukraine dispute. My position is that it has nothing to with us and we have massive problems of our own to solve.