Whom to appease?

It’s a hard choice: which tyrant to appease, Putin or Trump? European leaders don’t seem to know which way to look. A pledge from the ‘coalition of the willing’ to commit troops on the ground in Ukraine should there be a peace agreement will have to get over one of Putin’s red lines, namely absolutely no agreement with such a commitment built in to it. Right now, Putin can simply wait for the West’s divisions to tear it apart. He may have heard Denmark saying that if Trump invades Greenland, NATO is finished. Why rush to agree anything? As for Trump, his foreign policy—such as it is—is swagger. He knows that there would be no military impediment to him taking over Greenland tomorrow. His belief is clearly that the ‘international rules based system’ with its dollar-sucking institutions doesn’t earn the U.S. the respect it deserves. So he’ll act accordingly, following the dictates of his diminishing brain cells.
 
I have a theory that the reason Trump doesn’t want the Nobel Prize winning Venezuelan opposition leader taking the reins is precisely that: she won the prize when he thought it should be his. This is her punishment. Yes it’s that simple, the man’s that petty.