Posted on 03/27/2022 5:30:14 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
Former President Donald Trump would not be "capable" of holding peace talks in Moscow between Ukraine and Russia to stop the ongoing war, said John Bolton on Saturday.
Bolton, who served as Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019, said that such statesmanship would be out of Trump's character.
"He's not capable of it," Bolton told The Palm Beach Post. "This would require thinking through a policy and considering the pluses and minuses, the risks and costs involved. That's just not what he does."
Last Saturday, Trump said his personality kept the US out of war and added that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he were still in office.
The former president has repeatedly asserted that the ongoing war would not be happening if he was still in charge, Insider Lauren Frias and Sonam Sheth reported.
Bolton previously told The Washington Post that the only reason Putin didn't invade Ukraine during Trump's presidency is that he would've withdrawn the United States from the NATO alliance in his second term.
"In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO," Bolton said, per the newspaper. "And I think Putin was waiting for that."
In his interview with The Palm Beach Post, Bolton reiterated his belief that Trump's objective was to "withdraw the U.S. from NATO or substantially limit" Washington's support for the defensive alliance.
"He was very negative on the institution," Bolton added.
Bolton also told the local newspaper that Trump would have gifted Russia Ukraine had had won a second term as president.
Speaking to British radio station LBC last week, Bolton offered a negative assessment of how his former boss would have fared in this conflict. "If Trump had been re-elected, Putin would be in Kyiv already," he said.
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How should we approach peace talks? I know, let’s ask one of the nations biggest war mongers! That’s the ticket!
Bolton still butt hurt?
Whatever else may happen, one thing that has changed is that Europe finally realizes it needs to take charge of its own defenses
Bolton is cratering again?
From what I have read, it seems the labs were already in Ukraine at the time USSR broke up and Ukraine gave up its nukes. What happened after that is unclear, but it appears the US may have been involved.
I don’t think Putin even mentioned such labs until some tweet by a blogger got posted after the invasion.
So... He wouldn’t be able to repeat the Abraham Accords with two nations which have far more similarities than differences? I dunno... Even if he couldn’t, things would be far better.
Bolton is handicapped. I studied his “Surrender is not an Option” book in 2007 and learned that he is from Baltimore and did many cool things in government. In other news, Trump is admired around the world by patriots, nationalists, free market economists, free religion missionaries and all around cool people. Who do I know that hates Trump? Pro-abortionists and anti-Christians.
Bolton is just trying to sell his book. Don’t pay any attention to him.
What Bolton hates about Trump is that Trump would not go to war with Russia over Ukraine.
LOL! John Bolton.....and far left Business Insider....all you need to know.
Bolton shows just how foolish he is
Why in the world did Trump pick all these back stabbers?
I believe you are correct sir.
Who knows why Trump filled his Administration and inner circle with incompetents and back stabbers?
As far as we know, Trump has never held accountable those who advised him to select such people.
Sessions, Wrey, Tillis, Mattis, Milley, Bolton, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Kelly, Barr, McMaster, Grisham, Omarosa, Cohen and the list goes on.
Trump should have ditched these people on day one including a purge of the agencies and relocations outside of DC
Didn’t Trump help negotiate peace deals in Isreal and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize a couple of times?
I think he’s fired a few of them.
So many of those who Trump hired, many from former so-called conservative administrations, flat out lied when they were interviewed for their jobs, IMO. When he gets elected again, he needs to have every one of them put through a full-scope lie detector series, period.
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