{"id":84,"date":"2026-03-12T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grumpyrepublican.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:51:51","slug":"a-possible-solution-to-the-ukrainian-and-iranian-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grumpyrepublican.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"A possible solution to the Ukrainian and Iranian Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I watched another cringe-worthy news conference at the Whitehouse the other evening, I thought to myself: &#8220;What would it be like to go mano-a-mano with Karoline Leavitt?&#8221; She has the same knack that Trump does to take any hard question and make the person who asked it look like a schmuck. Her scathing deliveries and blistering rebukes could reduce anyone to a simpering wimp, ready to do her bidding, rather than face another volley of hyperbole and lies. She really is a nasty person with a very prickly personality.<br><br>So, why not unleash that talent on Putin in negotiating an end to the war that Russia started with Ukraine? I am pretty sure that after a day or two of facing Karoline, Vladimir would say &#8220;Please, I&#8217;ll agree to anything, just take that woman away from here&#8221;. Problem solved. Using her as a &#8220;weapon of argument destruction&#8221; would be the best use case for her and her oratory talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look out Iran!  If you don&#8217;t surrender we&#8217;ll send in Karoline Leavitt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I watched another cringe-worthy news conference at the Whitehouse the other evening, I thought to myself: &#8220;What would it be like to go mano-a-mano with Karoline Leavitt?&#8221; She has the same knack that Trump does to take any hard question and make the person who asked it look like a schmuck. Her scathing deliveries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpyrepublican.com\/?p=84\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A possible solution to the Ukrainian and Iranian Wars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,5,11],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-commentary","tag-iran","tag-trump","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A possible solution to the Ukrainian and Iranian Wars - I am the Grumpy Republican<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpyrepublican.com\/?p=84\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A possible solution to the Ukrainian and Iranian Wars - I am the Grumpy Republican\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As I watched another cringe-worthy news conference at the Whitehouse the other evening, I thought to myself: &#8220;What would it be like to go mano-a-mano with Karoline Leavitt?&#8221; She has the same knack that Trump does to take any hard question and make the person who asked it look like a schmuck. 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