Donald Trump cannot assume international diplomacy is like one of his sleazy real estate deals

Echo opinion letter published in the Los Angeles Times

To the editor: “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

Donald Trump was a sleazy real estate developer, so every negotiation looks like a property deal, thus his insistence on a land swap to end the war (“After welcoming Putin, Trump appears to adopt his goal, agreeing to cede land for peace,” Aug. 16). 

Thus. Trump apparantly sees international diplomacy as just another golf course deal, but bigger. He doesn’t appreciate that there are actual people on this property for whom it is not only their home, but also their nation. Do they get traded to Russia along with the land like serfs, or deported like inconvenient residents, in his own country❓

Brave Ukrainians

What’s worse than being in over your head ❓ Not even being aware that you’re in over your head. I weep for what this incompetence is about to do to the brave Ukrainians who have sacrificed so much.

From Robert Huber,  in Yorba Linda, California