Why do the US President and Vice President reluctant to visit Ukraine?
After all, both act fearless or as if they were. The ongoing war probably cannot trouble them. President Trump also has a god who probably saved him from assassination.
And Ukraine certainly matters both in its own terms and on its presidential agenda. Currently, the country is generally accepted as the only one standing between Russian imperialism and Western democracy, but the administration claims that it will end the Russian war by the end of April.
Ukrainian President Voldymir Zelensky tacitly invited both of them at a tragic February 28 meeting in an oval office. Recently, Zelensky has repeated invitation Explicitly in “60 minutes,” “We want you to come, come and see. I think you understand what’s going on here. Okay, we respect your position. … But before any kind of decision, before any kind of negotiation, before any kind of negotiation, make a deal.
So, what holds Trump and Vance down? There are several possible answers.
The first is discomfort. Living in Marallago and Trump Tower can ruin people, and while Vance may have struggled as an Appalachian boy, he has a days behind him that prefers Hobnob with the rich and powerful people, not the “Hilbillies.”
Why does Steve Witkov’s companion, Vladimir Putin, travel to a country in the midst of the merciless bombardment of innocent Ukrainian men, women and children? Who doesn’t like playing golf in Florida? Furthermore, unlike Ukrainian civilians who are not important except for Putin’s ledger figures, the president and his veep are one of the most powerful men in the world. There is no longer a time when generals accused the enemy on the frontlines. It is much better and safer to shed tears of Ukrainians and Crocodiles in Russia’s “mistakes” – Targeting Smee in Downtown Palm Sunday – From the comfort of the White House.
The second possibility is the disgust of Ukrainians, Zelensky and Ukrainians. Ukraine, after all, had no “cards,” and, worse, was so stupid that it was invaded by Russia and started a war. The country and its people are losers and therefore are not worthy of a visit by the great American leaders.
What are the Americans learning that they don’t know very well? As Vance implies, he has never been to Ukraine and knows everything he needs to know about Ukraine, as the rest is just Kiev’s propaganda. Trump, on the other hand, is a genius and, by definition, knows everything about everything.
Naturally, both men dislike Zelensky. Ostensibly because he refused to cooperate in the Hunter Biden scandal, but because he is everyone who knows what he thinks he knows better than Ukraine and will not refrain from saying that. And he is, of course, mere salesman and “dictator”, hoping to gain legality by accidentally killing “civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, dead children” before Trump and Vance.
The final explanation is uncertain. Both Trump and Vance know enough about Christianity. We understand that the Ten Commandments are not just a casually gathered list of God’s wishes, but a series of moral injunctions. And they must know that one of the commandments is about murder. Their sense of good and evil is mostly mo death, but it may be important enough for them to understand that, in their success with the accused war criminals, war, genocide and Genosidale, they effectively support the mass murder of Ukrainians.
They die thousands of miles from the moral comfort of an oval office and appear only as statistics this morning. To actually see their torn limbs, spilled courage, bloody faces will never make America great again. It is better to stay as far as possible and lament death and destruction from a safe distance.
Vance showed his moral insensitive on April 15th I explained it His approach to war: “If we want to end the conflict, we have attempted to try and understand where both Russians and Ukrainians see their strategic goals… that does not mean morally endorsing the Russian cause.
It is ridiculous to argue that both Russia and Ukraine are equal, and therefore morally neutral “strategic goals” are ridiculous. Witkov does not understand that Russia’s purpose is to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine’s purpose is to survive. What about Vance? His statement deserves what it gets, as he suggests that, like his intense action on February 28th, he likes to believe that Ukraine has “began” the war.
In the final analysis, all three factors are at work – discomfort, disgust, and discomfort. Trump and Vance like difficulties, hate Ukraine, and feel guilty for the crimes they bet.
Don’t expect them in Kyiv immediately. Expect them in Moscow.
Alexander J. Motil He is a professor of political science at Rutgers University Newark. An expert in Ukraine, Russia, the Soviet Union and nationalism, revolution, empire and theory, he is the author of ten non-fiction books, and isThe end of the empire: The collapse, collapse, resurrection of the empire” andWhy is the Empire repeated again?: The collapse of the empire and the revival of the empire are from a comparative perspective. ”
