{"id":9632,"date":"2025-11-27T15:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:45:19","slug":"trump-is-the-ultimate-political-pragmatist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/trump-is-the-ultimate-political-pragmatist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is the ultimate political pragmatist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever happens to the Ukraine peace plan, the US president has secured several key victories for himself<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recent events have confirmed that US President Donald Trump is the ultimate political pragmatist.<\/p>\n

Since his inauguration in January, Trump has endured ongoing criticism from portions his MAGA base – due in large part to his failure to end the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. Trump won the presidency by promising to end these foreign conflicts, and his seeming inability to do so has alienated a segment of his core supporters.<\/p>\n

Trump’s most strident critic has been Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene – a former Trump acolyte, conspiracy theorist, and committed MAGA ideologue.<\/p>\n

Greene recently broadened her attack to condemn Trump for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and his refusal to release all documents held by the Department of Justice relating to its investigation of Epstein.<\/p>\n

This is the domestic political context that caused Trump to intensify his attempts to finally resolve the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. For Trump – as for all American presidents – his domestic and foreign policy agendas are intimately interrelated.<\/p>\n

Trump recently brokered a solution to the Gaza conflict that has resulted in a temporary peace – which is unlikely to satisfy either the Palestinians or the Netanyahu government, but is, however, acceptable to the Arab states in the Middle East, Russia, China, and the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Trump’s provisional settlement is one that the Biden administration could not have even contemplated. Biden, like previous Democrat presidents, was committed to uncritically supporting the Netanyahu government – no matter what atrocities it committed.<\/p>\n

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As for the Ukraine conflict, Trump has, since his reelection, consistently sought to end it – a reflection of his election promise that he would “end the conflict within 24 hours.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump’s efforts to resolve the conflict have, until recently, proved ineffective – because of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s intransigence, and the determination of the UK, France, Germany, and the EU to support their ailing proxy and prolong the conflict indefinitely.<\/p>\n

It now appears, however, that Trump may be on the verge of resolving the Ukraine conflict – which has needlessly wreaked havoc and death for the past three years.<\/p>\n

Trump’s latest attempt to end the conflict is based his 28-point peace plan announced last week. This resolution could not have been entertained by Biden – committed as he was to propping up the faltering Zelensky regime in order to conduct a proxy war with Russia.<\/p>\n

How has Trump brought about these dramatic results? Essentially, by being the ultimate political pragmatist.<\/p>\n

Trump’s domestic agenda is illiberal and authoritarian – although, even here, his unexpected endorsement last week of the ‘communist’ mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani (more below), reveals Trump’s essential pragmatism.<\/p>\n

Why has Trump been so determined to end the Ukraine conflict?<\/p>\n

Not just because he is an isolationist and wants to defuse growing discontent within the Republican Party.  And not because he has any understanding of the complex historical relationship between Ukraine and Russia, or an appreciation of how the American-sponsored eastward expansion of NATO since the early 1990s provoked the conflict in the first place.<\/p>\n

The answer is to be found in Trump’s essential pragmatism and his instinctive belief that politics – both foreign and domestic – can be reduced to what he terms “the art of cutting a deal.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump’s determination to end the Ukraine conflict has been opposed by influential figures within his own party – his administration contains many anti-Russia hawks and enthusiastic supporters of Ukraine. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, who announced his resignation this week, fell into this category. So, too, until recently, did Trump’s secretary of state, Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n

That is why Trump insisted that the negotiations relating to his 28-point peace plan be conducted by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to Russia, rather than Kellogg or Rubio. Witkoff is not a diplomat or an ideologue – he is, like Trump, a wealthy property developer and a pragmatist.<\/p>\n

This also explains why the European supporters of Ukraine continue to criticize Witkoff and seek to banish him from ongoing settlement negotiations.<\/p>\n

Trump is likely to succeed in bringing about a resolution of the conflict in Ukraine because, on any realistic view, circumstances now compel a settlement. These circumstances include the following:<\/p>\n