Now that all members of Alaska’s congressional delegation have shamelessly capitulated to President Trump, it’s high time they get something for it. They should go bigly, to borrow a phrase.
My suggestion: stop Russia’s illegal and deadly invasion of Ukraine. Trump hasn’t a clue how to end the war. He promised to settle it on his first day back in office. Since then, he’s either mad at President Zelensky or President Putin on alternate days; blocking arms assistance to Ukraine one week or sending more the next. Meanwhile, more than a million Russians have been killed and thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians killed and wounded, with the carnage continuing daily.
Our delegation should urge Trump to call his comrade Putin with a simple message: withdraw from Ukraine in one week or Ukraine joins NATO a week later. The U.S. and some other NATO members have long dithered on Ukraine’s membership, worried about offending Russia. If there’s one thing likely to get Putin’s attention, it’s Ukraine as a full-fledged NATO member towering over Russia’s border backed up by NATO’s might.
Our delegation members already are expert at playing to Trump’s over-sized ego, so they should dangle the prospect of a Nobel Peace Prize for him if he pulls this off.
— David Ramseur, Anchorage
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