> Trump is pro-peace, No, he's not. He is actively, not merely tacitly, supporting Russia's war of aggression. > which is a nuanced position, which appears t

> Trump is pro-peace, No, he's not. He is actively, not merely tacitly, supporting Russia's war of aggression. > which is a nuanced position, which appears to be pro-Putin to people who want the war to continue. Trump wants Russia to win the war, as quickly as possible. He also wants to be seen as pro-peace, so makes a handful of insubstantial gestures in that direction, that misdirect the extremely gullible and are grabbed onto as if they were real by other equally-dishonest backers of Russia. > Accusing people who want the war to end of being cowards or siding with the enemy is unfortunately a story as old as war itself. People actually siding with the enemy pretending to be merely pro-peace despite is also a story as old as war itself. > The left used to have a coherent antiwar movement, but now apparently that also is right wing. Not for a very long time; during the Cold War, it had an incoherent anti-war movement that was a mix of genuinely anti-war people with a very large group that was, instead, knowing and willing pawns of the Communist bloc and actively serving that bloc's geopolitical interests. (That's still, mutatis mutandis, the case on the left, too, the genuinely anti-war side being against Russian aggression as they tend to be against aggression everywhere, while often remaining skeptical of details of intervention against it, while the formerly pro-Soviet group has remained pro-Moscow even though the Soviet Union fell and Russia is no longer even notionally left-leaning -- they are the leftists you see opposing Western support for Ukraine as "imperialism" but not saying a peep about the Russian invasion, for instance; of course, many of the prominent individuals in that "left" group have switched to the Right -- including people like Trump's Director of National Intelligence -- because while leftist, pro-Russia or not, are shut out of political power in the US [the dominant faction of the Democratic Party being center-right], the Right is a more effective place to advance their real mission, where either left or right ideology is a cover for personal corruption and advancing Russian geopolitical interests.)