Is Trump's Next Gambit RUKRAINE?

 Will Trump's hybrid solution be RUKRAINE?


By James Terminiello 

 

Notice a pattern here?  

 

Absorbing Greenland to protect our northern approaches. The de-Chinafication of Panama. Rebuilding Gaza from the rubble up. Or as the wags put it, Gaza-lago. These are unique and bold solutions to real problems. 

 

The blood-stained and cratered landscape of eastern Ukraine will probably be the greatest geo-political challenge of the whirlwind presidency of Donald Trump. Millions have died on both sides. Second only to the unresolvable religio-ethnic-financial torment of the Middle East, Russian and Ukrainian antipathy dates back many centuries. And wretched old Vladimir Putin still has a big, if weary, army; a bucket of nukes; and oil on his side.  

 

But Donald Trump likes this kind of challenge. It seems to energize him. And he will look at it from his no-nonsense, real estate developer’s perspective.  Here we’ve got this ruined stretch of land along the Russia-Ukraine border that no one seems able to hold. Why not start anew? Rebuild fresh. Spawn a new nation sort of in the shape of Chile.  

 

Let’s think like Trump ... 

 

“We’ll call it uhhhh. Rukraine! 

 

Yeah, sounds beautiful. Nice hotels, casinos. Iron out our differences over vodka, borsch, and dumplings. We’ll plant 20,000 American soldiers there (borrowed from Germany) for the moment and you guys can form a joint police force and elect some mayors. We’ll float bonds and encourage tourism. 

 

We’ll bury the dead with honors, sells some coins, and build a few airports and hospitals. Give those lazy chumps at the UN something to do. In 20 years, it will be history!”    

 

OK, this all sounds pie-in-the-sky, but the times call for it. We’ve seen that regular diplomatic solutions at best postpone problems until the next flair-up (Example: Gaza). 

 

Trump is a disruptor. The kind of person who asks why? when someone tells him it has always been done this way. Then out pops the bulldozer. You may have noticed that Trump is not a Republican. Oh, yes, he has the support of most of that party because he bullied his way in and toppled his very weak and static opponents. But that support is shallow and unreliable.  

 

The people he has gathered around him - Musk, Ramaswamy, Hegseth – share two things. They are young and they are their own men. Party affiliations are hardly a blip on their collective radar screens. And that is a good thing. 

 

Whether it is Rukraine, the border, taxes, budget cutting, or de-wokification, the times demand challenging and fresh approaches that are not sanctioned, diluted, or mangled by any one party. 

 

With the disruptor approach there will be raging successes and black-eyed failures, but the world needs to be shaken up a bit.  

 

If nothing else, the next four years promise a bumpy ride.    

 

James Terminiello, author of seven books including “Not Yet Your Time," Koehlerbooks September 2025, writes from Mount Laurel, New Jersey


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