Donald Trump Should Not Repeat Woodrow Wilson’s Failure

As Donald Trump is approaching crucial, some believe, fateful decisions, about ending the war in Ukraine (fateful since we are talking about a most likely escalation in case of his failure, which might lead to WWIII), he and his advisors should refresh their memories to understand why the famous Austrian author Stefan Zweig, in his book “Stellar Moments of Humankind,” on the list of many luminaries, such as Goethe, Tolstoy, Handel, Napoleon, and Lenin, who experienced these kinds of moments, mentions American President Woodrow Wilson, using the words “Wilson versagt” (Wilson’s Failure). If they are too busy to read Zweig, American author Rusty Eder explained it in a more simplified version in “Wilson’s Failure? The Treaty of Versailles.”

“The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month…” Is there a U.S. History teacher who hasn’t recited this phrase while discussing World War I and the Armistice that promised its end? There is, however, another date worthy of mention in this discussion. It is November 19, 1919, on which date the United States Senate did something it had never done before: it rejected a peace treaty, specifically the Treaty of Versailles.

Trump is now faced with the same problems as Wilson with his “Fourteen Point” plan when he had to please the Senate, European Allies, and the American public. One major difference is that, contrary to WWI, when American soldiers were also dying, in Ukraine, they are not, except for mercenaries. Still, one’d assume that Americans who sincerely claim their adherence to Judeo-Christian values should oppose the war between two Christian nations. However, it looks like they are in the minority, especially among democrats. In Congress, they are joined by Republicans who would prefer this war to continue, since it weakens Russia, and who absolutely do not cares about the lives of Ukrainians.

Jared Peterson: “The West’s interest in Ukraine is merely a U.S. hegemony adventure, seeking to assert U.S. top dog dominance in Eastern Europe and thereafter the world.”

According to Pew Religious Landscape Study, nearly nine in ten American adults say they believe in God or a universal spirit. At the same time, unlike in the previous two decades of disastrous wars led by the United States and NATO in the Middle East, the current war in Ukraine involves no militant Islamic factor. Those now in the driver’s seat are wholly composed of self-identified Christians and Jews.

Jared Peterson from American Thinker is correct when he states that “the West’s interest in Ukraine is merely a U.S. hegemony adventure, seeking to assert U.S. top dog dominance in Eastern Europe and thereafter the world.”

Official Washington and its transatlantic loyalists call this war “unprovoked” and blame it all on Vladimir Putin. However, there is another America, which disagrees, including many well-known experts both on the Right and Left, who can hardly be dismissed as Putin’s bootlickers or useful idiots.

Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, in his article “Ukraine is the Latest Neocon disaster,” didn’t hesitate to mention some specific names of those who got us into this quagmire when they declared that the United States must dominate the world and must confront rising regional powers that could someday challenge U.S. global or regional dominance.

The list of people in the know who believe that the West provoked this war is long. It keeps growing, but why not quote the late Pope Francis, who didn’t mince words by saying that the “barking of NATO at the door of Russia” might have led to the invasion of Ukraine and that he didn’t know whether other countries should supply Ukraine with more arms.

One would assume that formal meetings between government leaders would not be in the spirit of what is a solemn occasion, a sacred ceremony of the Pope’s funeral. However, I’d risk thinking that Pope himself would approve of these meetings if these efforts helped Trump in his search for peace. Still, for those like Macron, Starmer, Zelensky, von der Leyen, who, no one doubts, would attempt to convince him to continue this war, the killing and devastation, it is a total disgrace.

April 30th is an important date in American politics. This is the day 100 for the American President in the White House, and all attention will be on the reports of his achievements and failures. Nothing can be more critical than Peace, and on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Elbe River reunion, when Americans and Russians were allies there were many celebrations in Moscow, Washington, and German city of Torgau, where related memorials are located, those who took part or watched them online wished Trump success in his Peace efforts.

A symbolic event took place not far from the Elbe Ceremony in downtown Moscow, when an automobile motorcade with Trump advisor Steve Witkoff drove by on the way to the Kremlin, and the crowd greeted him with Russian and American flags.