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TaiwanIsNotChina
What would also help is enforcing sanctions again russia...
quercetum
The war is coming to an end. The U.S. decides not anyone else.
HopeSpringsEternal
Unity hasn't worked, no effort for Peace Talks since Feb 2022. What's needed is leadership. G-7 has totally re-aligned recently politically for several reasons, including failure to achieve Peace Talks in Ukraine.
DJT elected to stabilize world, and that means ending the Ukraine Proxy War ASAP. Other G-7 Members, Biden Admin and Ukraine have no 'cards', just failure.
TaiwanIsNotChina
As you say, Trump has all of the cards, so if russia is in Odessa in four years time, everything is on him.
ALmost
Perhaps 100% correct in this respect. However, if "peace" is artificially forced onto the victimized nation on the terms of the aggressor then we the "free world" are giving up everything we believe in and are handing over unchecked future powers for aggression to the leaders of nations who are hungry only for one thing, absolute power over everyone at no matter the cost.
The current US administration will give the USA a humongous black eye in the history books and will tarnish their children's futures for a long time to come with this kind of short-sighted thinking. In the name of blindly following your "great leader" you may very well be doing your own, our own country, a monumental disservice. Please try to read and listen to the others' viewpoints rather than always only the ones you "know" are speaking the truth. The citizens of Russia no longer have that freedom. Let's be very careful not to follow in the wrong footsteps.
HopeSpringsEternal
If Germany and France can recover from WWII, then Russia and Ukraine can as well, but it will take time and good behavior on both sides to do so AND not allowing outside disruptors with their 'regime change agenda'!
rocketpig
Yes it's important to change positions and follow Trumps lead. Otherwise unity cracks will emerge and others will doubt G7
OssanAmerica
If so, the same must hold true for a free and open Indo-Pacific. The US decides not anyone else.
Kuribozu
In light of the US's latest vote in the UN siding with Russia (and China, North Korea, Belarus, etc.), the rest of the civilized world has to realize that Trump has gone over to the Russian side. He is abandoning the post-WWII framework among the free nations that has kept the peace, and protected free nations from ruthless aggression by brutal dictators like Putin. The US may rise up and throw off the corrupt, immoral Trump regime when Americans come to their senses, but until that happens we're on our own.
Cephus
It's laughable when people claim President DJT is on the Russian side. Frankly, he is not in either side but taking over and ending this atrocious war, which the world failed to do for the past 2 years.
HopeSpringsEternal
That's right Cephus, but the true costs and risks of this proxy war go FAR beyond just the direct combatants.
Entire world's paying a Heavy Price in terms of economic and geopolitical damage, DJT knows it and that's another reason he's so motivated to achieve PEACE.
Kuribozu
CephusToday 11:16 am JST
It's laughable when people claim President DJT is on the Russian side.
Well he's not on Ukraine's side. He belittles and insults Zelensky, the democratically elected leader of a democracy, while trying to extort trillions of dollars from a war-shattered Ukraine, and while simultaneously slobbering all over Putin -- the ruthless dictator and murderer of journalists and rivals of all stripes, who's now into his 3rd decade of one-man rule over an increasingly dystopian Russia. But you go ahead and keep laughing.
kurisupisu
Actually,the war, by some accounts is far longer than the major apparent battlefield hostilities of the last 3 years…
itsonlyrocknroll
Don't sneer at Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
Ishiba as a global leader, has enough influence to be heard and respected.
JJE
Nothing 'prolonged' about this war by any on-switch measure. Almost 20 in Afghan, similar for Iraq. Vietnam didn't really escalate till 65 with the troops departing in 73.
This conflict is actually quite young. There is still plenty of time for western politicians to make bad decisions.
Fortunately, the current admin in DC doesn't replicate the last, which almost caused WWIII.
isabelle
Quite apart from your obvious, intended sleight upon the brave Ukrainian defenders, I think one Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin would certainly disagree with you.
Unity has kept the invading Russian hordes of murderers, rapists, torturers and child abductors from taking Ukraine for the past three years.
You can blame one Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for the lack of peace.
Appeasing a dictator will do the opposite, just as it did in Munich in 1938.
Still not a proxy war, no matter how many times the pro-Kremlin mob repeat the lie.
I presume you're talking about Putin trying to install Moscow-friendly puppets in Kyiv.
Yes, we certainly should not allow that to happen.
isabelle
Even when he has a history of fawning over Putin, is seemingly agreeing to all his demands, and is rejecting UN resolutions that condemn his war of aggression?
https://apnews.com/article/un-russia-ukraine-war-resolution-trump-zelenskyy-cde221e5850196776525403e788c272c
Sounds a perfectly reasonable conclusion to me.
The only one causing war here is Putin.
JJE
G7 is an irrelevant investment club, stuck in the past with a "our-rules-based-order" unipolar mindset.
Washington has woken up to the winds of change blowing and doesn't want to be left behind as multipolarity is now a reality. Satellites are slower in getting the message.
The former can see the bigger picture, engaging the other great powers to pull the chestnut out of the fire. Expect a rewiring of the global security architecture in Eurasia and beyond. Likely to be arms control-spending-reduction agreements between those relevant great powers (US, Russia, China, India) down the track; a win for peace and prosperity.
Roger Gusain
G7 is an irrelevant investment club, stuck in the past with a "our-rules-based-order" unipolar mindset
I don't agree with all of that, but you are right that it's stuck in the past. The implications of these tectonic shifts in the international order are not good news for Japan.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Hilarious as always: just because you only have your gang of thieves doesn't mean other organizations aren't more respectable.
JJE
Tokyo would be wise to examine the long-term missteps the EU club has made, with regards to them being sidelined in negotiations going forward, not to mention self-inflicted economic harm. Would be even cleverer to learn from this avoidable but intentional comedy of errors and not replicate it.
Things are moving fast and the tide of history is turning. Statements about the 'security of Europe being "inseparable" from that of Asia' is false, fossilized logic that won brownie points during the last administration but not this one, which is moving from declining hegemon to reestablish a firm footing as global great power once again, thus needing lifters not leaners. His whole obsolete mindset needs a reboot-format to avoid the irrelevance trap others walked into, eyes-wide-shut, in a rapidly changing world.
Roger Gusain
"Fossilized logic" -- you kind of expect that from a living fossil.
Wasabi
Maybe the reason why trump is not using the US politic, economic and military power is that the US is now weak?
This is the only logical reason for trump to repeat putin lies.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Or the person holding the office of the president is weak.
TaiwanIsNotChina
russia will remain a regional power and Europe will remain on the side of Kyiv.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Russia has at least 2-3x the deaths of the US in Vietnam and 30x the deaths of the US in Afghanistan. And we laugh and we laugh. It is the best a russian could hope for under Putin.
robert maes
Japan should be the last to give morality lessons. It has learned nothing from its mistakes.
JJE
The drums of peace and prosperity of the New Concert of the Great Powers are beating, amongst an unfolding global realignment, in the shadow of the crumbling post-Cold War order. Previous administration failed to knock Russia out of the Great Powers and created a stronger Eurasian strategic bloc. New administration understands this reality, but to their luck and credit, has spotted the multipolar wave, paddled and now determined to surf the tube all the way in with the others, maintaining preeminence and first-among-equals status in the Concert. It doesn't need any backseat drivers or annoying passengers.
EU have marooned themselves with declining economics, demographics and power. Washington will firmly control North America, from Greenland to Panama, safely ensconced between two beautiful oceans. Latin America will have regional autonomy, Brazil the main player, contingent on keeping out other powers/blocs (Monroe Doctrine still applying). Future US global power will be projected in concert with other powers and not against them. Middle East still being worked on. Russia and China have a big lead in Africa and peace in the former. Expect not just multilateral arms control agreements, but hostile alliances being drawn back, with the mutual understanding that Great Powers don't attack each other directly but provoking via third parties - something that needs to stop (I.E. address the underlying causes). Global Cold War Part II is not the way to go.
Key for smaller players, like Tokyo, is chiefly to learn to swim amongst this and make it to the beach party. The stark lesson of one country being ruthlessly sacrificed on the Altar of Geostrategic Ambitions via proxy is an obvious example to be avoided at all costs. This brave new world transition presents deep challenges but also lucrative opportunities, with fruity cocktails at the beach bar, and a Concert, for those that make it in - big and smaller - to share in the rewards.
TaiwanIsNotChina
russia's still not a great power so you are continuing to listen to the concerto featuring the US with accompaniment by China.
isabelle
Japan has not committed an act of aggression since WWII. It has learned from its mistakes.
Now compare that to Russia's post-WWII history, and current acts of aggression.
This is a very poetic post.
Pity it's all just meaningless pro-Kremlin noise.
Peter14
To keep unity it may be time to shrink once again and become a G6. Take Trump off the team, he is useless anyway just helping the enemy.
With a teammate like Trump, you have no need of enemies.
Primusinter
I'm sorry, I've missed the events, could you remind me which of the journalists Putin killed? I know for sure that the American journalist Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison. He was imprisoned by Zelensky's personal order. He was killed by the SBU. But I don't know anything about the journalists killed by Putin.
TaiwanIsNotChina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
Even if they escape being killed today, they can be locked up for no gd reason.
Primusinter
The article doesn't exist. You have nothing to tell?