Trump, the Russia-Ukraine war and empires

When Donald J. Trump talked about dividing Russia and China I would hope he wasn't being serious. The world needs a multipolar world, not an empire. Empires can do as they please, as we see from endless US wars and proxy wars and Israel's genocide in Gaza. These are the products of empires.

People with no knowledge of history may say Russia declared war on Ukraine unprovoked. That was not the case. The provocations are well known, and I have no interest in repeating them here.

The Russia-Ukraine war has always been a proxy war between the Western Empire, for want of a better term, and Russia, designed to degrade Russia's strength at any cost in terms of Ukrainian lives and infrastructure and put pressure on Putin, whom the West despise because they can't buy him or murder him (yet.)

To this end, Vladimir Zelenskyy was installed as a puppet to do the West's bidding. This is why no peace treaty is possible while the West controls Ukraine and feeds its war effort.

Trump knows this. All educated folk know this. Only buyers of Western propaganda are unaware.