Snyder: The U.S. is not just unreliable, it is behaving strangely.
Allies like Romania, Poland, Taiwan and South Korea expect America to save resources for serious moments, not waste munitions, reputation and focus on wars it cannot explain. 1/
Snyder: Trump wants to be Putin but cannot. He wants Putin’s money, Putin’s ability to fight wars, Putin’s power.
But he lacks the patience, attention span and competence and he is afraid of American public opinion. 2/
Snyder: Putin does have a vision for Russia. It is terrible, totalitarian and built on a false past where Russia and Ukraine were supposedly one.
He wants to be remembered as a ruler who brought more territory into Russia. 3/
Snyder: Russia can be stopped. Serious oil and gas sanctions, actually enforced, plus weapons for Ukraine, would make it impossible for Russia to continue the war.
Ukraine is doing far better than analysts predicted. 4/
Snyder: Trump’s Iran war is helping Russia stay in Ukraine.
By pushing oil prices artificially high and using the war as a pretext to lift sanctions, the Trump administration has made it possible for Russia to keep fighting. 5/
Snyder: Orban’s defeat is extremely consequential. Orban was not just a leader.
He was a system, an authoritarian model inside the EU, a far-right oligarchic network, and a channel for Russian money into Western institutions. 6X
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