KYIV — U.S. President Donald Trump finally labeled Russia the aggressor in the war against Ukraine, further demonstrating a hardening of his position toward Moscow.
Referring to Ukrainian and Russian troop casualties, Trump told reporters Sunday: “8,000 soldiers have died this week, from both countries. Some more from Russia, but when you’re the aggressor, you lose more.”
Trump has previously refused to condemn Moscow for the invasion, with his administration siding with Russia and North Korea in February to reject a U.N. motion backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemning Russia. The U.S also objected to a G7 statement calling Russia an aggressor in February. Trump has blamed Ukraine for the war, saying in April: “You don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”
But Trump’s stance toward the Kremlin has changed over the summer, with his administration exerting increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as the Russian president stonewalls Trump’s efforts to broker direct peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“further demonstrating a hardening of his position toward Moscow”
Lmao you STUPID FUCKS when will you STOP talking about this guy as if actions are calculated or savvy or something. He’s not “strategizing” or “hardening his position” towards some big-picture outcome like a seasoned diplomat would, he’s just spewing whatever enters his head at a given moment, from whatever thing happened to be in front of him in the last 24 hours
Exactly what I was going to say. The media is naive in thinking this man has a position or stance on anything.
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He finally has enough liquid cash from crypto that he can pay off all the Russian loans. But I don’t think he realizes that you are never really an “ex”-Russian Asset. Oh, and he should probably stay away from tea for a while…
He finally has enough liquid cash from crypto that he can pay off all the Russian loans.
I’m so tired of people thinking the man at the helm of the largest military and paramilitary force on the planet is terrified of a few Russian gangsters breaking his thumbs over loan money.
Nevermind that this fundamentally misunderstands their relationship (Trump was laundering money for the Russian [and Italian and probably a few other] mafiosi, not borrowing from them). It pretends that he’s a schmuck who got in too deep with a couple of loan sharks, rather than the head of a white nationalist fascist coup within the halls of the US Government who has fallen in and out with a rival fascist dictatorship on the opposite side of the planet.
Now that I think about it… I wonder if his stroke was partially a result of his meeting with Putin…
“Never attribute to malice what can be explained by being 79 years old and obese.”
Day 238 of ending the conflict on day 1…
He didn’t say which 24 hours he’d end the war in (/s)
It’s true, and neither did Putin specify which two weeks of which year that would be…
The incursion into Poland was no idle threat; Putin has said Poland is next on its list.
And he’ll change his tune again tomorrow.
further demonstrating a hardening of his position toward Moscow.
What hardening? It’s all talk and no action. That’s not a hardening of position, that’s the exact same position.
Fucking moron!
