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Media’s War on Peace: Why the Press Would Rather See the World Burn than Let Trump Get the Win

BY Brandon Webb

Media fears peace with Trump’s name on it. Ukraine talks test his deal style while Gaza grinds toward a grim Israeli-controlled end.

Trump at the White House.

If you listen closely, you can almost hear it—the collective tottler-like screams from the usual suspects in the liberal media echo chamber.

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Trump sits down with EU leaders and Ukraine’s Zelensky, trying to pull off a diplomatic high-wire act, and instead of rooting for peace, the press is practically handing out popcorn at the “let’s hope he fails” screening.

It’s not journalism anymore, it’s a blood sport. And the target isn’t Putin, or war, or the ghost of Kissinger’s liver. No, the target is Trump himself.

And it’s a filthy tragedy that the media, left, right, and everything in between, has devolved into a self-licking ice cream cone of ideology and clickbait. Spoon-feeding the slobbering masses their daily fix of outrage porn and recycled talking points.

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Here’s an Example

  • Financial Times — “Ukraine talks expose Trump’s dreadful attention to detail”
  • The Washington Post — “The Ukraine peace talks aren’t ending the war. They’re perpetuating it”
  • The Guardian — “Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs”
  • The Economist — “Trump is selling a peace plan for Ukraine, but no one wants to buy it”
  • The Economist— “Why a Peace Deal in Ukraine is Unlikely”

Is there any hope left for journalism that can stare a situation in the face without flinching, without twisting it into propaganda, and actually aim to make the world better?

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I hope a few of these hacks can rip the wires out of their skulls, crawl out of the Matrix, and finally wake the hell up.

It seems like most of the press want the peace talks to collapse because it’s Trump leading the way.

“Anyone but Trump!”, they collectively scream with their inside voices.

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They want Ukraine stuck in a never-ending meat grinder and the EU stumbling like a drunk football team, because if Trump pulls a rabbit out of his red MAGA hat and actually secures progress? Well, that would nuke their entire narrative that he’s a bumbling orange madman with the IQ of a parking cone.

But here’s the kicker, they know damn well that Biden’s “no dialogue, tough talk, and slow-walk aid packages” approach accomplished jack $–t.

Russia didn’t blink. Zelensky didn’t get breathing room. And Europe? Europe got higher energy bills and existential angst.

Trump, Voss, and the Art of Twisting Arms with Empathy

Now, if you’ve read Chris Voss’ Never Split the Difference (and if you haven’t, read it—it’s Negotiation 101 for the post-9/11 world), you’ll see Trump working out of that exact playbook.

Voss preaches “tactical empathy”, the art of getting inside your adversary’s head, making them feel heard, then nudging them like a used-car dealer who already has the keys to your trade-in.

Trump isn’t kissing Putin’s ass, despite what CNN’s trembling woke interns are tweeting. He’s making Putin feel like the big man at the table while steering the conversation toward de-escalation. It’s the kind of streetwise maneuver that makes Ivy League foreign policy wonks clutch their pearls, because it doesn’t fit into their sterile think-tank models. But out here in the real world? That $— works.

The Media’s Biggest Fear: Peace with Trump’s Name on It

If peace comes stamped with Trump’s golden signature, the media loses its war drumbeat. That’s their nightmare scenario because the establishment needs a forever-conflict, a good-versus-evil blockbuster where they’re the critics and Trump is always cast as the villain.

The irony? If Biden had pulled this exact move, sitting across from Putin with Zelensky in the room, the media would’ve lit the White House up in red, white, and blue LEDs and crowned him the second coming of FDR.

But because it’s Trump, they’ll burn down the narrative even if it means torching the possibility of peace.

Next Stop: Gaza, the Smoldering Fuse

And while the ink’s drying on these talks, let’s not ignore Gaza. The Israel-Hamas war is already fizzling out into an ugly stalemate. What’s next is obvious to anyone not guzzling soy lattes in a Brooklyn newsroom: Israel will grind Hamas into a pulp, slap down a ceasefire, and annex whatever slices of Gaza it deems strategically useful. The rest will be fenced off, pacified, or starved into submission. It’s realpolitik in 4K, and no amount of hashtag activism is going to stop it.

So, what do we have? A world where Trump might actually pull off peace in Ukraine, Biden’s model is already roadkill, and Gaza is marching toward an Israeli-controlled reality. And the media? They’ll still be rooting for collapse, chaos, and conflict—because nothing terrifies them more than Trump walking away as the guy who ended wars instead of starting them.

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