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I don’t care enough about what’s going on over there that I’m going to step in, get a bunch of our citizens killed and pour more and more money into the war sinkhole.”
As stories emerged of Russian atrocities, he doubled down, telling Bannon I don’t know who wrote the speech – it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool,
Part of it is Mr Trump’s thin skin and his response to what he sees as criticism,
said Kupchan, a member of the White House national security staff in the Obama and Clinton administrations How long is this expected to go on? How much is it expected to cost?”
he said, complaining of a “lack of strategic clarity” in US and allied goals This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden admin/Nato had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns,
she wrote, as Russian missiles struck Ukrainian cities Trump’s relationship with leaders blows hot and cold. He’s had good meetings with Zelenskyy,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the elected head of state of Ukraine. The inability to hold regular elections in the midst of war is in line with the Ukrainian constitution and electoral laws. No one should claim otherwise.”
Key EU leaders rushed to reassure the Ukrainian president of their continued support, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying The transatlantic relations are over,
Roth added, as he emphasized This is pure Kremlin — and Putin — speech,
said Michael Roth, chairman of the foreign relations committee in the German parliament, after the U.S. president called Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and sided with Russia’s narrative about why the war began If we didn't go for all these ultimatums at the most difficult moment, why is there a feeling that now Ukraine will go for it?"
Zelensky is not well prepared to deal with these two challenges at once,
said Silvester Nosenko, an international relations lecturer in Kyiv and former interpreter for the Ukrainian leader It still depends on what Trump really has in mind. Does he want to align with Russia?"
But there isn't much time for that,
Not a single lying creature in Moscow, Washington, or anywhere else has the right to open their mouths against him,
The country wants peace, but not at the cost of humiliation,
Before it was only Putin who was able to unite Ukrainians. Now Trump is managing to do it too,
We stand with Ukraine, and our belief in that our support for Ukraine is unshakeable
If you'd told me just three months ago that these were the words of the US president, I would have laughed out loud.
Overnight the Russians did not try to hide their joy, with former president and Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev tweeting The Prime Minister has made his own view clear
Asked whether Sir Keir Starmer should have publicly contradicted Donald Trump over his comments calling the Ukrainian leader a 'dictator', Ms Nandy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme He refuses to have elections, he's slow,
Trump said to an audience including Elon Musk