{"id":52623,"date":"2022-04-20T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52623"},"modified":"2022-05-03T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:30:24","slug":"trumps-solution-to-the-war-in-ukraine-is-to-appease-russia-and-quash-any-criticism-of-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52623","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘Solution’ to the War in Ukraine is to Appease Russia and Quash Any Criticism of Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Russia is escalating their genocidal assault on the people of Ukraine with an offensive in the eastern region of Donbas. It is already producing more of the atrocities and war crimes that Russia been committing for the past several weeks. The United States and it allies throughout the world are united in condemning Russia’s actions and are coming to the aid of the brave Ukrainians.<\/p>\n

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However, Donald Trump is continuing to whitewash Russia’s invasion and is offering advice that is repugnant and only serves to benefit the Russian aggressors. In a tweet<\/a> posted by his Twitter ban defying spokes-shill<\/a><\/strong>, Trump said that…<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren\u2019t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement. If they don\u2019t do it soon, there will be nothing left but death, destruction, and carnage. This is a war that never should have happened, but it did. The solution can never be as good as it would have been before the shooting started, but there is a solution, and it should be figured out now\u2014not later\u2014when everyone will be DEAD!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that nowhere in this comment does Trump ever mention the savagery and inhumanity of what Russia is doing to innocents in Ukraine. He doesn’t acknowledge that Russia initiated the invasion against a peaceful neighbor. To Trump this is merely a negotiable difference of opinion that can be resolved by reaching a compromised settlement wherein both parties make concessions.<\/p>\n

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That’s a position that is typical of Trump’s transactional approach to everything. He believes that bullies should get what they want just because they demand it. It’s also a position that leans heavily in favor of Trump’s pals in Russia who have no claim whatsoever to any accommodation by Ukraine. Why should Ukraine be forced to capitulate to the Russian marauders?<\/p>\n

Notice also that nowhere in Trump’s comment does he even mention his BFF, Vladimir Putin. Trump has a long history of favoring Putin over his fellow Americans, especially President Biden<\/a><\/strong>. Trump viciously maligns Biden as a “radical”<\/em> who is trying to “destroy”<\/em> the country, and who is not fit for deliberations. But he thinks that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be compelled to sit down with the murderous heathen, Putin, and make “some kind of an agreement.”<\/em> Trump doesn’t (can’t) explain what that agreement might look like. But when he previously offered his assessment of the situation it devolved into an entirely irrelevant and inane rant about windmills<\/a><\/strong>. That’s right. Windmills!<\/p>\n

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Trump’s pleading for Zelenskyy to cave in to Putin is particularly bizarre considering that it’s Putin who refuses to negotiate. Zelensky has consistently advocated discussions aimed at resolving the conflict, or even just allowing for the safe evacuation of civilians. In response, Putin just issued an ultimatum that Ukraine “surrender or die<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/em> And it’s under those circumstances that Trump believes that Putin is a reasonable person with whom to negotiate and that Zelenskyy should acquiesce to him?<\/p>\n

In 2019 Zelenskyy visited Trump in the White House to seek military aid from the U.S. while Russia was already supporting a separatist movement in Eastern Ukraine. During that meeting Trump brazenly lied about the differences between the military support given to Ukraine by President Obama and himself. Then, as now, Trump suggested that Ukraine’s problems with Russia could all be solved if they would just “get together”<\/em> with Putin.<\/p>\n

Remember, Trump was impeached (the first time) because he tried to hold military aid hostage<\/a><\/strong> in order to coerce Zelenskyy to fabricate dirt on then-candidate Joe Biden. You can tell what Zelenskyy thought about Trump’s advice by the look on his face when Trump said that…<\/p>\n

“I really believe that President Putin would like to do something. I really hope that you and President Putin can get together and solve your problem.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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"I really believe that President Putin would like to do something," Pres. Trump tells Ukraine Pres. Zelenskiy.<\/p>\n

"I really hope that you and President Putin can get together and solve your problem." https:\/\/t.co\/EU63L2mY3R<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pi83PmxlFC<\/a><\/p>\n

— ABC News (@ABC) September 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n