President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine’s leaders for the three-year war with Russia, arguing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “should have never started it.”
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after massing troops on the border and demanding a ban on Ukraine ever joining the NATO alliance. The invasion took place nearly a decade after Russia took over Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Trump vowed to end the war during his presidential campaign and on Tuesday repeated his claim that the war would never have started if he had been president. He spoke after U.S. and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia without Ukraine officials. “I think I have the power to end this war. And I think it’s going very well,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on the heels of the meeting between U.S. and Russian officials.
“But today I heard, ‘Oh, well we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years,” Trump continued. “You should’ve ended it in three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished and not one dome would have been knocked down. But they chose not to do it that way.”
Trump went on to rail against former President Biden as “so pathetic” before again criticizing Zelensky. “Look, you have leadership — and I like him personally. He’s fine. But I don’t care about personally. I care about getting the job done. You have leadership now that’s allowed a war to go on that should have never even happened, even without the United States.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Saudi Arabia that any final agreement would have to be acceptable to Ukraine and Europe, as well as Russia.
Posted by John3262005
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Dementia Don strikes again
i dont even know what to say at this point
😀🔫
This dumbass is parroting literal Russian propaganda
!ping UKRAINE
Today’s been a tough one.
As I said before, Trump is a dumb, traitorous piece of shit.
Are we the baddies?
Rapist says rapist thing
Maybe I shouldn’t have given up the meds and the booze.
The Munich conference comparisons are a disservice to chamberlain
Jeez, what did Putin promise you to say this?
There are **0** words left at this stage. He genuinely admires Putin…
https://preview.redd.it/0ym3jzyzizje1.jpeg?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=321a3d71be4b3d9229b5e810f1a806996dd42466
I love this system that the white house has worked out where Trump gets to spew traitorous verbal diarrhea all over the place, and then Rubio comes in and tries to clean it up by saying actually that’s not what the president meant, and OF COURSE we hold the sane position. Ladies and gentleman, the first schizophrenic presidential admin
Propaganda Don Part Deux : This time, its personal. I so hope that Ukraine will continue getting help from Europe. What a shit show.
Lord give me the strength to not get banned.
Fucking pathetic from the nation that stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe.
Eisenhower rolling over in his grave. Diaper Don is a Ruski.
Unbelievable how far the US has fallen diplomatically in the last 2 months. Anyone who voted for him is such a c*nt.
Don’t look at me I didn’t vote for this
With Trump’s logic, America should have surrendered to Japan and the Nazis in WW2.
The President of the United States is the comments section on the NY Post.
We’re a fucking embarrassment
“Ukraine shouldn’t have worn that miniskirt – it was asking for it” – PINO
https://youtu.be/QEQOvyGbBtY?si=PNj0-Xz_rzRsKkI8
his statement makes a lot of sense if you read the “them” as Russia who gets all the land.
I often say that I’m embarrassed to be an American in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way, but holy fuck.