Trump’s victory shows that persistence, perspective and unity are important. Ukraine should take these lessons to heart as it navigates through its own fight for the next.
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Former U.S. president Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. president, speaks at an election night event held in West Palm Beach FL, U.S.A. on Nov. 6, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Donald Trump was written off after his defeat in the U.S. Presidential election of 2019. He didn’t give in — he got up, ran again and won four years after that.
Lesson: Never give up. Even if your cause seems lost to everyone around you and they work against you. Even if you start to doubt that you will ever succeed. Victory is primarily a result of your efforts, and not others’.
Second, Trump was focused on his goal and won. Those who were sucked into the bubble of comforting information were convinced that Kamala Harris would win because her ratings were increasing.
Lesson: It is important to always take time to step out of our “info-bubbles” in order to see the other side of things, especially during wartime. We may later wonder why the outcome of a war was not what we had expected.
Third, this election was predicted to divide the United States. If Trump had not won, he would have likely not recognized the results. This would have created a serious division risk that would have weakened America to the detriment of Ukraine. But Trump won, and the divisions were avoided.
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