Cold War Over
Cold War Over
The Cold War went on for, oh, 75 years, give or take. Now it’s over. How did this miracle happen? Trump brought Putin to the negotiating table—he used diplomacy. He achieved this feat by not criticizing Putin. Yes, there were territorial concessions: Trump gave him Ukraine and any other chunk of Europe he took a fancy to (Cuba too). But the war had to end; it had gone on too long; there had to be peace. And what did Trump get in return? No territory, to be sure, or security guarantees, but lots of…lots of what? Oh yes, lots of flattery—false flattery but flattery nonetheless. He made a deal with the dictator—and he is a great dealmaker. It’s an artform with him. He gave Putin lots of land and he got lots of flattery in return—a pretty good deal, no? As a result, the Cold War is over, and Trump was victorious. All hail President Trump! He showed Putin (and the world) who is boss, bigly.
Everything I do I ask myself “is this good for Trump?” but I don’t pray to him, yet, nor do I have to.
By the way, Marlowe would love Trump, it’s harder to match him to Shakespeare, maybe Richard III
Shakespeare characters need to speak a passable version of English.
How about Crab the dog from Two Gentlemen from Verona?
Dogs and Fools make okay parallels.
A member of the English gentry we knew when we were kids called her two dogs Caliban and Gollom.