When US President Donald Trump returned from Beijing last week and told Fox News that Taiwan presents “a little bit of a difficult problem,” he wasn’t just making conversation. He was showing his hand again – revealing that his foreign policy runs on personal relationships and gut feelings, not strategy. “When you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful, big country. That’s a very small island,” Trump explained. Then he pulled out the geography card: Taiwan is 59 miles from China but 9,500 miles from the US. JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. His point was clear – distance matters, size matters, and the US shouldn’t be sending its kids halfway around the world to defend a small island against a vastly more powerful neighbor. If that logic sounds familiar, it should. Trump has been making the exact same argument about Ukraine for years.
“Trump has made clear that Ukraine's fate is their problem, not America's.”
Ukraine sits roughly 5,000 miles from Washington. It borders Russia – a nuclear superpower with overwhelming conventional military superiority in the region. And Trump’s response? “It’s not our war.” That phrase – repeated by both Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio – has become the administration’s mantra when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump hasn’t just stayed neutral on Ukraine. He’s actively pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russia’s terms for a peace settlement. He has publicly declared that Zelensky has “no cards to play” – essentially telling Ukraine’s president to surrender on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms or face abandonment.
