Trump’s slam on ‘loopy’ Vlad: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump’s post saying Russia’s Vladimir Putin “has gone absolutely crazy.”
It’s abundantly clear that President Trump’s all-carrots strategy to coax Vladimir Putin to the peace desk has solely emboldened his intransigence (“Stark raving Vlad,” May 27).
The president’s latest post on social media saying Putin “has gone absolutely crazy” is stating the apparent — however actions communicate louder than phrases, Trump.
In Putin’s eyes, the basis of the issue is Ukraine’s existence as a sovereign state. Therein lies the true drawback, and the one resolution is a most sanctions strain marketing campaign towards Vlad’s conflict machine in addition to extending a renewed army lifeline to the beleaguered sufferer.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
Trump calling Putin loopy and Russia calling Trump “mentally unstable” show simply how out-of-touch these two dinosaurs are, as harmless Ukrainian civilians are slaughtered of their sleep. Heaven help us all.
Ron Spurga
Manhattan
All Ukraine conflict peace talks should stop. Russian sanctions should be maximized, together with a 100% embargo on oil commerce. The European Union ought to confiscate $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank reserves to help Ukraine defray the conflict’s damages.
If America and the EU want to return to democratic norms, they’ll provide Ukraine with all the required offensive weapons to subdue Russia.
Larry Sylvester
Ontario, Canada
Is Putin actually loopy like Trump thinks, or is he nonetheless simply loopy like a fox? It actually doesn’t matter anymore — the time has come to take motion.
It’s time to max out tariffs on nations that import oil and fuel from Russia, arm Ukraine to the tooth and confiscate Russian property.
If not now, then when? When Putin destroys more property and butchers more harmless people?
We are effectively previous the name-calling stage.
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
I simply hope that these two don’t huck nuclear bombs at one another. May the level-headed people of society prevail.
One factor I need to level out is that if President Trump invades Canada, he’s simply as fallacious as Putin is for invading Ukraine. If it’s fallacious for Putin to invade a neighbor, it must also be thought of fallacious for Trump to invade a neighbor.
Furthermore, betraying the trust of a overseas energy, similar to Canada, is an impeachable offense.
Sean Murray
Victoria, Canada
The Issue: The clear hazard that extremist rhetoric similar to “Free, free Palestine” poses to Jewish people.
It’s simply a matter of time earlier than more harmless Jews are killed within the identify of “Free, free Palestine” (“Matter of time,” David Harris, May 25).
It’s simply a matter of time earlier than younger kids are taught antisemitism in colleges within the identify of “Free, free Palestine.”
If the world at giant doesn’t take part in a significant seismic shift in angle and motion to close down the gradual however regular radicalization of people like Elias Rodriguez, then we’ll see antisemitism rationalized and magnified right here in America and overseas.
Amy Hendel
Tarzana, Calif.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. outlined the boundaries of free speech in 1919, stating that speech posing a “clear and present danger” exceeds the parameters of free speech. Shouting “Free Palestine” or “Intifada” is a clear and current call to kill Jews.
The actions of Rodriguez had been indicative of the language generally used to rally hatred towards Jews.
Not solely Jews, but in addition black people, Catholics and different Americans need to take back their civil rights.
Joel Glazer
Elizabeth, NJ
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