The Trump administration’s do-si-do with the Russian criminal in mid-August is more than a month past. In that interim Russia has dropped a drone strike on Poland, violated airspace of the Baltics, bombarded Kyiv, advanced in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kerson and Zaporzhia. It’s rattled the nuclear saber, said that everything is on the table and threatened the U.S. multiple times in the ugliest of terms. China held a meeting world leaders and especially fawned over India Prime Minister Modi.

It is clear, that the axis of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have no interest in ending the bloodshed. The threat from these four is growing — witness how Putin stiffed Mr. Trump during and after the Alaska farce. Now North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is seeking a meeting with Mr. Trump. Could it be his turn to embarrass the President? China’s Xi appears to be orchestrating these feints and misdirections to probe for weakness, or worse, corner a President distracted by minutiae that he and his crew blindly rely on his “friendships” and “relationships.”

Mr. Trump declared that he had a “great and very successful day in Alaska” and would go directly to a peace agreement. After rolling out the red carpet and shaking hands with the perpetrator of war crimes, with the intent pof stopping senseless slaughter, where has his focus been — other than rightly on the murder of Charlie Kirk?

Here’s an incomplete list of actions/inactions from that interim of 40-some days:

Tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs — enacted, suspended, reimposed, threatened and cancelled

Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again

“Don’t take Tylenol” declaration with zero new science, laboratory tests nor studies of any kind

Executive Order to ban flag burning

Announced Ultimate Fighting event at the White House!

Canoodling with the King of England and his Rottweiler

Reciting his hatred for his enemies while exercising self-congratulation at the Kirk memorial

Zero action since his threat of “very severe consequences” if Putin didn’t agree to end the war

Threatens late night talk show “comedians” and their networks in an assault on free speech

Renames Defense Department to War Department

Mr. Trump has spoken with President Zelenskyy on several occasions since the Alaska confab. The killing and dying have accelerated since mid-August. The U.S. has the capability to impose lockdown sanctions on the murderers from the “Great Country.” Instead friendly and potentially friendly nations have been repelled by high-handed bloviating on “making them pay” while Russia skates on its Ukraine spree.

Make no mistake, we here at PolicyWorks America want nothing more than successful outcomes — ending the Russian crime spree, fair and free trade and a President with at least a modicum of statesmanship, reserve, humility and circumspection.

Stow the anger, the retribution, the lawfare, the hyperbole, the narcissism, the sideshow barker routine and focus — Now. Focus on turning the screws and terminating wars. Show these four thugs what true resolve, dedication, might and American statesmanship mean. This world is dangerous, Mr. Trump needs to make it much less so. Ending the Russian slaughter in Ukraine is priority one to achieve that.

For good measure, Vice President Vance should be tasked with authoring and implementing immigration reform. Neither party has had the moxie to advance a guest worker framework. What we just got was a $100k bogey for work visas. This measure is a tax to be paid by the hiriing company and will discourage the best minds from overseas from seeking positions with U.S. companies, especially the those in the second ecomoinic tier and below.

While we’re tackling tough issues, how about some Social Security reform? Raise the retirement age, revise the FICA tax modestly upward for high earners to bring in some additional funds. Both parties are good at finger pointing on these two issues, it’s time to fix them and get them out of the political debate. Since (we hope) the President is termed out, he’s the one man immune to the blowback. There’s so much vitriol around him a bit more would make little difference.