{"id":8177,"date":"2026-10-10T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=8177"},"modified":"2026-10-10T20:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:32:24","slug":"the-thinking-kat-the-wimp-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=8177","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking &#8216;Kat: The Wimp in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news rarely makes for joyful reading, but the news that Trump has offered Putin&#8217;s Russia cash for diesel fuel, and then had the gall to criticise Ukraine president Zelenskyy for condemning the deal, is a source of absolute dismay, or at least it should be to any reasonable soul. Trump is now effectively <strong>funding<\/strong> Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, whether he cares to admit it or not, and helping Russia prolong their imperialist, aggressive campaign, at the expense of the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump may parrot that Zelenskyy has had opportunities to make a deal. Perhaps he has, but on whose terms? Should Ukraine be forced to give up territory, and do so without any assurances or guarantees that Russia won&#8217;t simply swoop in again later on? No right-minded leader would sign such a deal. Instead, Trump should be placing <strong>pressure <\/strong>on <strong>Putin<\/strong>, and taking whatever actions are possible to curb Russian aggression. Such a course of action would require Trump to grow a spine, but he would rather be a stooge for Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is really is pathetic, and it&#8217;s all about Trump saving his own skin. He is desperate to bring down fuel prices (prices that rose as a result of his misadventures in Iran), in order to stand a chance in the upcoming mid-terms. It&#8217;s all about image and projection with Trump. He is a man of ego and no substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=7095\">Back to The Thinking &#8216;Kat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news rarely makes for joyful reading, but the news that Trump has offered Putin&#8217;s Russia cash for diesel fuel, and then had the gall&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=8177\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Thinking &#8216;Kat: The Wimp in the White House<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-and-society","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251026_123532.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8179,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions\/8179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}