‘Ukraine will never win this war’: Donald Trump recognises basic reality that other Western leaders refuse to confront
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John Mac Ghlionn I March 2, 2025 I Sky News I 4 min
Peter Dutton recently attacked Donald Trump over his stance on Ukraine, eager to cast him as clueless and out of touch with global affairs.
In the world of psychology, we call this projection—accusing someone else of the very flaws or blind spots one refuses to acknowledge in oneself.
A closer examination, grounded in Scott Horton’s meticulously researched Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, reveals that Trump’s skepticism toward endless military aid to Ukraine isn’t misguided.
It’s spot on.
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To dismiss his position is to ignore hard truths about Ukraine’s rampant corruption, the war’s hopeless trajectory, and the self-destructive nature of Washington’s foreign policy establishment.
Far from being a Kremlin apologist, Trump recognises a basic reality that many Western leaders refuse to confront: Ukraine will never win this war.
Horton painstakingly documents how Ukraine, despite billions in Western aid and military hardware, faces an adversary with superior manpower, resources, and industrial capacity.
While enduring its own significant losses and economic strain, Russia can sustain a prolonged conflict that Ukraine simply cannot.
Zelensky knows this.
His government’s frantic measures—including the conscription of men off the streets—are the actions of a regime in freefall.
Forcibly dragging men from cafés and nightclubs under martial law doesn’t scream strength.
It screams desperation.
Yet, the Western media, with few exceptions, plays its part in selling the myth of a winnable war.
Reports of catastrophic Ukrainian losses are downplayed or ignored, while minor Russian setbacks are sensationalised.
This distortion is, of course, poor journalism.
But it’s more than that.
It’s insidious.
Instead of actually reporting the news, the media is more interested in shaping a narrative that keeps the money and weapons flowing.
The same outlets that sold the catastrophes in Iraq and Afghanistan are now fuelling the Ukrainian conflict, indifferent to the bodies piling up and the human cost of their propaganda.
Ukraine’s corruption only compounds the tragedy.
Long before Russia’s 2022 invasion, Ukraine was known as one of Europe’s most corrupt countries.
Billions in Western aid have vanished into black holes of graft and mismanagement.
Weapons meant for the front lines have been siphoned off and sold on black markets.
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While begging for more money, Kyiv’s political elites face little accountability.
By questioning the endless drain of American (and Australian) taxpayer dollars into this pit of corruption, Trump is asking what any rational leader should.
In other words, he’s asking the very questions Dutton and Abbot would rather avoid.
Horton’s book drives home a crucial truth: this catastrophe didn’t begin with Putin’s tanks—it was set in motion long before.
Despite repeated warnings from diplomats and foreign policy experts, NATO’s relentless eastward push was a brazen provocation.
The 2014 US-backed coup, which toppled a democratically elected (though Kremlin-friendly) president, was yet another reckless misstep.
To be clear, none of this absolves Russia—Putin owns his aggression—but to pretend Moscow acted in isolation is willful ignorance of the highest order.
Horton emphasises this very fact.
Trump’s critics argue that halting aid to Ukraine is tantamount to abandoning an ally.
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But Horton, a staunch anti-war activist, reveals the fallacy in this thinking. Prolonging a losing war is not an act of solidarity; it’s a recipe for prolonged suffering.
Zelensky, propped up by Western leaders unwilling to admit their strategic miscalculations, continues to send his people into the meat grinder.
Is this really heroism, or is it, in fact, utter madness?
He may not be crazy, but his refusal to face reality should worry anyone who doesn’t want to see this spiral into another world war.
It may seem obvious, but it needs to be said: War should always be a last resort, not a default setting.
Yet, foreign policy elites—across the United States, Australia, and most of Europe—drunk on their own rhetoric, have dragged their nations into another endless conflict with no clear goal beyond “hurting Russia.”?
What’s worse is the suffocating silence imposed on dissent.
Challenge the prevailing narrative, and you’re branded a traitor or a Kremlin stooge.
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Horton knows this firsthand—he’s been hit with the label so often he can’t help but roll his eyes at the predictability of it all. But anyone who reads his book or watches his interviews can see he’s nothing of the sort.
Like me—and, presumably, most sane people—Horton enjoys living and isn’t keen on the prospect of nuclear annihilation.
What an oddball, right?
As Horton reminds us, being skeptical of war is simply common sense, shaped by a history of costly disasters.
We’ve seen this movie before; we know how it ends: big promises of easy victories, arrogance that underestimates the enemy, and a stubborn refusal to face hard truths.
From Libya to Syria, the pattern is undeniable.
Trump is breaking that cycle.
By challenging endless military entanglements and calling for negotiations, he offers a path out of this insanity.
Real leadership is about knowing when a war can’t be won and having the guts to pursue peace, no matter how politically inconvenient it is.
Horton’s Provoked highlights what our leaders refuse to admit.
John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and essayist who writes on psychology and social relations. He has a keen interest in social dysfunction and media manipulation.
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8 小时前And neither can Russia. And Donald Trump should stick to his isolationist policy, make America great again and not stick his nose where it is not wanted. It's an European problem; let the Europeans handle it. As far as "suffering" is concerned, it doesn't extend to the Palestinians and Israelis. Are they not suffering too? But this goes much deeper, Trump holds huge grudges against Zelensky and it shows in his demeanour. And there isn't NATO anymore. Trump has effectively withdrawn from NATO and the USA is already closing down strategic logistics basis in Europe. The EU should simply rename it The EU Mitary Coordination Council. The dissenters in the EU should have their membership terminated. The EU gives up 20% of its military equipment to Ukraine, who can find enough volunteers from all over the world to man it, and before July 2025 the Russian occupied areas can be liberated. Who will come to Russia's aid? Definitely not China, not India ... only North Korea. As it is the Russians are only capable of making war on civilians, they are out fought, outsmarted, and incapable of even holding onto their current territory. And Trump has given Putin a breathing space that has allowed Ruzzia to catch it's breath.
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8 小时前Reagan explains how to deal with the Soviet Union and Ukraine https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/marijnmarkus_history-policy-usa-ugcPost-7300429586767466496-EPJ5?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAATxi-EBOv0WOc9-yXEpqPkEnkK9JZP1-6Y&utm_source=social_share_video_v2&utm_campaign=copy_link
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16 小时前The conclusion that “Ukraine will never win this war” means that the EU and US supporting Ukraine are not capable of forcing Rusia to retreat from an occupied territory. The message you send out to the world has very big consequences! What happends if China invades Taiwan or Spain invades Andorra or Germany invades Luxemburg? Will the world stand by and let the big countries invade smaller countries like we use to do in the past? What’s the use of having NATO, UN or international laws if we can’t enforce them? And looking back at the result of the vietnam war, the US has made mistakes before about whom could win a war!
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18 小时前Your wrong. Look at history.