Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Where are they getting 150000 troops from?

He could have clear video evidence of them both with underage persons

fake news, doctored video, AI…… Its known he is a rapist and they voted him back in

I guess calling Zelensky a dictator and that he's done a terrible job in Ukraine is another "provocation"?

I'm not criticising you, just saying that Trump is an awful human being and the most negative interpretation of his comments is usually quite accurate

Trump has completely lost the plot now, I can't see how anyone apart from Russia itself would view these statements as positive.

The idea that the US President is calling the democratically elected leader of a country that's been brutally invaded by an actual dictator-led autocracy….a dictator….and also somehow responsible for the war, it's mind-blowing.

Alarm bells have to be going off in the US at this stage because this is less about Ukraine per se, and all about Trump appearing to publicly lean strongly with Russia while strangling century-strong relationships all over the world.

I don't know what we can believe at this stage. Just last week Trump said Putin cannot be allowed to walk away with anything he can spin as a win. Now he's fondling Putin's ballsack.

What will next week bring?

What? You mean this Boris Johnson?

If Russia rolls into Ukraine, large scale again and is in any way successful. Trump will try to claim that he got a great deal, stopped the war or whatever while an inevitable insurgency will rage on. By enabling Russia he's doing the exact opposite of what he claims, as usual and if this does play out, any resource sites to be exploited will be huge targets making the entire "best deal ever" absolutely pointless.

Trump is a lying POS. The US has not spent anything like what he claims and the EU has outpent the US by a large margin.

This might as well have been written by the FSB.

IMO, no way Trump wrote that, it's somebody smart trying to sound like Trump and failing. (I'm assuming Trump okayed it though.)

With what, donkeys?

If they're going to invade from the north then why haven't they just taken Kursk back?

Putin apologists and Trump supporters are already entering spin mode and damage limitation - to preempt the usual:

"Why doesn't Zelensky hold elections, what is he afraid of" - Polls show the majority of Ukrainians don't want to have elections during an invasion. It's very difficult to campaign and hold a national election under such conditions.

"Zelensky's support is dropping" - He holds a higher approval rating than almost any Western leader.

"Trump is playing 4d chess here" - He is openly supporting a Russian dictator over the country that is being invaded and over traditional allies in Europe

"Putin isn't fully to blame for all this mess" - He's a dictator with close to unchecked power, there's nothing in Russia that happens without his say so, to pretend otherwise is to pretend he has no agency.

Etc.

Maybe that poster is expecting Trump to pull the plug on American military support very soon, thus massively weakening the Ukranian position? But surely that would take months to filter through fully to the battlefield…

Exactly. All European countries dithering about support for Ukraine need to ask themselves what happens if the situation deteriorates badly from here. There will be millions more refugees and they will end up one place only: the EU.

Zelenski bit his tongue long enough and kissed Trumps arse long enough but imo he should have just soothed his ego because as of right now huge American armourments are going into Ukraine weekly. Don't diss trump until what actually matters stops and that's the weapons supply.

Regardless it's looking very bad as Putin might as well be writing Trumps tweets. Has Trump the power to stop shipments at a whim or does it need to go through Congress first?

If the EU doesn't step up now it never will. I'm hoping worst case scenario Europe has to pay for American weapons.

Hence why I said he'd see out the term. He wouldn't stand a chance at re-election.

The US is doomed to an awful 4 years and the rest of the world will just have to live with it. MAGA, however, should die with Trump.

The disillusionment with "traditional" politicians won't. We can only hope that next time around they go for a Bernie Sanders style outsider than another grifter like Trump.