Washington, D.C. \u2013 He had promised it to the world. Loudly, proudly, chest puffed out: Donald Trump would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours - and he\u2019d do it before even setting foot back in the White House. It was a promise he paraded around like a magic incantation. Now that he\u2019s actually in office, he delivers instead a sentence that sounds like something muttered by a forgetful tourist lost in a government hallway: \u201cI just got here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump declared he had \u201cNOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WAR.\u201d Responsibility, he said, lies with Biden. Trump, he insisted, was simply too new on the job to be held accountable. You know how it goes: First you look for the light switch - then for the exit strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verbatim, the president said: \u201cThe War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden\u2019s war, not mine. I just got here, and for four years during my term, had no problem in preventing it from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was only a few months ago that Trump cast himself as a geopolitical superhero. The man who could fix everything with a phone call to Moscow and a steak dinner in Kyiv. Now it turns out: that wasn\u2019t a lie, but - as he put it - \u201ca little bit sarcastic.\u201d That, apparently, is what it sounds like when someone treats the world as a punchline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine a doctor promising to heal a broken bone before the patient even walks into the clinic, only to say later: \u201cI didn\u2019t treat him, I just stumbled into the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new American foreign policy seems to consist of two ingredients: forgetting and deflecting. Trump now presents himself as a detached spectator in a drama for which he helped write the script. While people die in Europe, he retreats behind a shrug and a \u201cnot my war,\u201d as if responsibility were an optional clause in the contract with history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And perhaps that\u2019s the most unsettling part: that a president who once declared himself the bringer of peace now shrugs his shoulders, as if it were all a misunderstanding. As if governance were a reality show. And promises just episode titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump has arrived. It\u2019s just that his word - it never really came with him.<\/p>\n
Washington, D.C. \u2013 Er hatte es der Welt versprochen. Laut, stolz, mit gepolsterter Brust: Donald Trump werde den Krieg in der Ukraine innerhalb von 24 Stunden beenden \u2013 und zwar noch bevor er das Wei\u00dfe Haus wieder betritt. Es war ein Versprechen, das er wie eine magische Formel vor sich hertrug. Jetzt, da er tats\u00e4chlich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inferno-ukraine","category-trump-s-world"],"yoast_head":"\n