Effective Diplomacy: Trump Style

Putin has been holding a Wall Street Journal reporter captive for many months for no reason other than for potential use as a bargaining chip. The Biden Administration has been unable to get Putin to release this unfortunate fellow. Trump claims that if he is elected president, Putin would release the reporter immediately. Trump is right! It would happen, along with the U.S. abandoning helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s aggression. And once Putin has installed a puppet government in Kiev, it would be easy enough for him to abduct and imprison another reporter. If he did that, he would remind Trump that his only promise was to release the WSJ reporter. Putin would no doubt add, “Don’t fret, Donald. Pull the U.S. out of NATO and I will release this reporter too.”