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In a Fox News interview, Donald Trump argued that Ukraine should not have resisted Russia’s 2022 invasion, claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should have made a deal with Vladimir Putin.

Trump criticized Zelenskyy for choosing to fight, compared the military strength of Russia and Ukraine, and said he could have ended the war quickly through negotiations.

Trump’s stance contrasts with Joe Biden's strong support for Ukraine, including aid and sanctions on Russia.

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago

Of course he did. Trump would never stand up to a bully, he would never defend the weak against the nasty. That would take courage, but Trump has only cowardice and sycophacny for bullies.

Trump is a person who sucks up to bullies, and punches down on the bullied, through and through.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Trump is a little bitch. Doesn't know what being a man is, because if he did, he'd do the opposite of this.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

It's worse. I doubt he knows what being a human is...

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

“They’re saying ‘the war is tomorrow’ – this causes panic on the market and elsewhere," Zelensky, Jan 2022 in response to US warnings of imminent Russian invasion.

Zelensky didn't "choose to fight" because Russia insisted there would be no fight right up until it crossed the border. It would've been considered a sneak attack but for the US telling everyone Russia was invading for a full month in advance. There was no choice offered to Zelensky and never has been since, unless you count Russia's current stance of basically "give us all your weapons and maybe then we'll negotiate"/

[–] DegenerationIP@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Yo. You know. Screw him. Slava Ukraini!!!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Does he really believe this, or is this redirected anger because he's finally figured out that he can't, in fact, just solve it?

Probably, Putin told him to pound sand, and then OPEC basically just ignored him when collapsing oil prices was the next idea.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 14 points 6 days ago (17 children)

Putin didn’t tell him to pound sand. Putin holds the leash. Everything Donald Trump says and does is to advance Russian interests.

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[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 6 points 5 days ago

Well yeah, and now he's taking this move from Putin's playbook for Greenland. He's at the "people in Greenland would rather be US citizens" stage. Putin did the same thing in the beginning when talking about the territories in Ukraine he wanted to take.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

I'm kinda getting a "if you're getting raped just lay back and take it" vibe from this.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Glad to see the ghost of Neville Chamberlain is still around.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 6 days ago

C'mon, if we're doing WWII analogies he doesn't get to be an allied leader, even if Chamberlain was a really bad one.

[–] Vytle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump is chose to continue giving aide to Ukraine. This is just bullshit so he can appear to be trying to lower taxes

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I wouldn't be so confident about that, considering that Trump is known to spew so much bullshit that the truth is hard to parse from it.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

But the US has the most powerful military on the planet under president Trump? Power is useless if it is not used and guided well.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Lemme just invade the us on a whim then

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