Opinion on CrossGov.com

Trump's Animosity Toward Ukraine Rewards Putin: From the Oval Office Ambush to a Russian Diesel Deal

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think the US owes Ukraine an open chequebook. Europe should carry most of the cost of a war on its own continent, and it now does. A President who pushed allies to pay more, demanded accountability for every weapon and pressed both sides toward a ceasefire would be doing his job.

Then there’s what this President has actually done. Over 20 months he has treated the country that was invaded as the problem, and the country that invaded it as a partner in waiting.

Trump's Hostility to Solar Fights the Cheapest, Fastest Power America Can Build as Data Centres Push Demand Up

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll concede the obvious first. The US solar industry runs on Chinese supply chains, it grew up on tax credits, and some of the farmland arguments against giant solar fields are real ones that rural counties make for themselves. A President who wanted panels made in America and fewer subsidies would be on defensible ground. Much of what his trade officials have done on polysilicon and dumped panels sits on that ground.

Trump's War on Wind Power: $4 Billion of Taxpayer Money Spent to Cancel Electricity America Needs

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think wind power is a moral cause. Turbines are big, they change a coastline, and some projects were signed at prices that looked generous even when they were signed. A President who wanted tougher contracts, a closer look at radar interference or a fairer deal for fishermen would have had a reasonable case to make.

That isn’t what this President has done. He has gone after wind with a hostility that no cost test, reliability test or national security test can explain.