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Even the NY Post has had it with Krasnov's relentless Putin buttkissing
It’s time to hit lying Putin with LOTS of sticks Vladimir Putin’s promised “weeklong” pause in strikes on Ukraine’s power plants lasted just four days; will the Russian thugocrat pay any price for yet again breaking his word? President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office last Thursday that Putin had agreed to the pause as a humanitarian gesture amid a brutally cold winter. Supposedly, Moscow (suddenly) didn’t want to wage war on civilians.
Yet Tuesday’s barrage of 450 drones and 70 missiles, Russia’s largest such assault in nearly four years of war, aimed at the very infrastructure Vlad had claimed he wouldn’t target. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called this exactly what it is: “Moscow is choosing terror and escalation,” not peace. Putin broke his word to Trump, ruthlessly attacking civilians one day ahead of planned US-brokered negotiations in Abu Dhabi; will our president just take it?
… When will the president show some rage at Putin’s nonstop lies and broken promises?…Months of jawboning (and feeding Putin’s ego by doing face-to-face talks) hasn’t gotten the monster of Moscow to budge an inch; Russia’s still bent on total conquest no matter how long, or how much blood on both sides, it takes.
… Since Vlad keeps spitting on carrots, Trump’s people should be hitting him with lots of sticks: Get Kyiv more offensive as well as defensive capabilities; squeeze Moscow’s energy industry as hard as it’s hitting Ukraine’s. Putin’s plainly laughing at Trump’s weak-seeming will; time to teach him what “peace through strength” really means.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/03/opinion/its-time-to-hit-lying-putin-with-lots-of-sticks/
Yet Tuesday’s barrage of 450 drones and 70 missiles, Russia’s largest such assault in nearly four years of war, aimed at the very infrastructure Vlad had claimed he wouldn’t target. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called this exactly what it is: “Moscow is choosing terror and escalation,” not peace. Putin broke his word to Trump, ruthlessly attacking civilians one day ahead of planned US-brokered negotiations in Abu Dhabi; will our president just take it?
… When will the president show some rage at Putin’s nonstop lies and broken promises?…Months of jawboning (and feeding Putin’s ego by doing face-to-face talks) hasn’t gotten the monster of Moscow to budge an inch; Russia’s still bent on total conquest no matter how long, or how much blood on both sides, it takes.
… Since Vlad keeps spitting on carrots, Trump’s people should be hitting him with lots of sticks: Get Kyiv more offensive as well as defensive capabilities; squeeze Moscow’s energy industry as hard as it’s hitting Ukraine’s. Putin’s plainly laughing at Trump’s weak-seeming will; time to teach him what “peace through strength” really means.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/03/opinion/its-time-to-hit-lying-putin-with-lots-of-sticks/