President Trump negligently and callously ripped Ukrainian defenses wide open, blinding them to Russian attacks, halting military aid and opening the door for even more death and destruction, thereby giving Putin a tactical advantage in the three year old Russian aggression. He says, “We’re doing very well with Russia” as he gambles with the lives of Ukrainian men, women and children as pawns in his personal fight with Zelensky to get him back to the bargaining table. Their deaths and blood will be on his hands alone. This is reprehensible and borders on Treason as he is aiding and abetting the enemy.
Everything Trump has ever done, the insensitive comments, norm breaking, lying, demonizing of those he sees as his enemy, flouting the Constitution, etc., pales in comparison to laying bare Ukrainian defenses, while in the same breath, seeming to admire Putin’s stepped up attacks on their infrastructure, saying, “I think he’s hitting them harder than he’s been hitting them”. He went on to say, “Anybody in that position would be doing that right now”.
Britain’s Channel 4 Report on the latest Russian strikes on Ukraine after the US intel blackout.
Trump continues to have full faith in Putin as an honest broker who wants peace, while at the same time, criticizing Ukraine and Zelensky as not wanting peace, saying, “I think Ukraine wants to get it ended, but I don’t see it’s it’s crazy….”.
Trump’s Endgame
Donald Trump is allowing his personal dislike of Volodymyr Zelensky to drive his foreign policy. Zelensky is an impediment to Trump’s agenda of a full reconciliation with Putin and Russia.
After Trump’s “Perfect” phone call with Zelensky in 2019, where he, for the first time, attempted extortion on the Ukrainian leader by holding back defensive munitions for dirt on Joe Biden that he believe Ukraine held.
Excerpt: “During a 30-minute call, Trump dangled the possibility of a face-to-face meeting. But he also suggested that future U.S. military support for Ukraine might be contingent on its leader helping investigate business dealings there by Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son.”
Trump’s phone call with Zelensky led to his first impeachment.
Over the past month and before the, now famous, “Oval Office Ambush”, Trump called Zelensky, not Putin, a “Dictator without elections”, blaming him, not Putin, for the war.
Trump sent Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, to Ukraine demanding that Zelensky sign a sight unseen minerals deal in advance of any cease fire or peace deal, that would have given the US half of Ukraine’s mineral wealth in perpetuity. Zelensky refused to sign the paper without security guarantees. Many saw this as simply another example of extortion to force him to the table.
Trump accused Zelensky of being rude, saying, “Scott Bessent went there and was treated quite rudely because, essentially, they told him ‘no’. And Zelensky was unavailable for a meeting as he was asleep,” Trump told the press, despite reports of an actual meeting on February 12.
Zelensky finally agreed to come to Washington, meet with Trump and sign the minerals deal with the understanding that security guarantee discussions would quickly follow. We know what happened in that Oval Office meeting that seemed more like a blindsiding of Zelensky by Trump, Vance and even Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend reporter asking Zelensky if he owned a suit.
The meeting, unlike anything ever seen in the Oval Office, blew up with Zelensky refusing to sign the deal again and being asked to leave the White House, leading up to a full on assault on the Ukrainian President with the halting of US Intelligence sharing and barring a private satellite company from sharing surveillance photos.
During and after the Oval Office meeting, Trump was furious and sought to punish both Ukraine and Zelensky for what he saw as a betrayal. He went after Zelensky, determined to hinder Ukraine’s offensive and defensive capabilities by halting weapon’s shipments in addition to the freezing of intelligence and surveillance sharing, leaving Ukraine’s ability to defend itself severely diminished.
As a result of Trump’s actions, the Kremlin issued a statement saying, Trump’s foreign “largely aligns with our vision”. Our enemy is thrilled and our ally is being pummeled by new and more vicious attacks, so what it’s Trump’s endgame? After what seemed like a tactical gift to Putin, Russia stepped up their attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure with a vicious drone and missile strikes that threatened Americans staying at a hotel.
Trump seems to want Russia to take it’s rightful place back in the G8, reduce their sanctions, get their oil back on the free market and stop the war despite Russia’s criminal invasion and war crimes against civilians. His plan has nothing to do with or is in any way designed to help Ukraine, but to have a peace deal at any cost of territory, Ukrainian sovereignty or the fact that Russia gives up nothing and gets everything they’ve wanted in the process. Ukraine and Zelensky are in his way as his administration has been working behind the scenes, talking to the Ukrainian opposition in an effort to weaken or push a regime change in Kyiv.
Every European and NATO nation, save Orban’s Hungary, supports Ukraine in their fight against Russian aggression and have pledged massive increases in military, humanitarian and financial support. They see a new world order with the US on the sidelines and aligning with Russia. The US recently voted against a UN Resolution that would have condemned Russia for the attack on Ukraine, siding with Russia, North Korea and Belarus.
Zelensky wrote a letter to Trump appearing to want a renewed negotiation on the minerals deal with some discussion on security. Trump read the letter at his SOTU as if being given a partial win with a little crow eating on Zelensky’s part whether true or not.
Trump desperately wants a Nobel Prize, a personal win and something tangible and transactional from a deal with Ukraine. He’ll push and push and punish Ukraine to get them to the table regardless of how many more Ukrainians die in the process. He’s forgiven Russia and Putin of all past sins, allowing them to keep all seized territory.
The EU and the other members of NATO have proposed their own Peace Deal with security guarantees to be presented to the US. Russia has agreed to nothing at this point and why would they as they have the upper hand with the total pullback of US support for Ukraine.
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