Real concern

A quote attributed to Winston Churchill, “History is Written by Victors.” needs an update for the world of social media and ‘alternative facts’.

The most recent statement from President Trump, “We want to end it. It’s a senseless war. It should have never happened.” is at best half right, in that this and other wars should never happen. He also said “You (Ukraine) should have never started it. You could have made a deal.” History will, or should state that Russia started it and ‘a deal’ to prevent the war would have been only achieved by Ukraine surrendering immediately and no country would do that.

The real concern for negotiating a solution is does the ‘we’ refer to Russia/US or Russia/Ukraine or all three? And therein lies the problem. The war is between two neighbours and until recently Ukraine was strongly supported by America, usually an opponent of Russia until Trump and Putin became great friends.

Whatever the final outcome is, so many people have died, so much destruction has occurred and so many lies have already been told, mostly by one person.

History will not remember President Trump well unless he can completely change his approach and the first month of his second Presidentiary does not suggest this will happen.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia