U.S. President Donald Trump appears to have come to the view long-held by others who know how his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin operates that the war in Ukraine must finally cause him hard-hitting consequences before it can come to an end. After all, the Little Emperor’s geopolitical game plan has always been to keep pushing until he runs into a force greater than his own, whether that is in Ukraine or further westwards in Europe. Indeed, the only reason that Putin did not use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine after it was apparent…