Does Trump Understand What's Happening In The Ukraine War?
by Portfolio Armor
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 17:42
Does Trump Understand What's Happening In The War?
His Truth Social post over the weekend, in particular the parts I've bolded below, suggests he doesn't:
I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever. I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia! Likewise, President Zelenskyy is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop. This is a War that would never have started if I were President. This is Zelenskyy’s, Putin’s, and Biden’s War, not “Trump’s,” I am only helping to put out the big and ugly fires, that have been started through Gross Incompetence and Hatred.
The Russian Missile Strikes Aren't "For No Reason"
As Andrew Korybko pointed out, the Russian missile and drone strikes weren't "for no reason whatsoever", but were in retaliation for a series of drone strikes by the Ukrainians:
What’s really happening is that Russia ramped up its bombing campaign against Ukraine in response to Ukraine ramping up its drone one first, during which time Putin’s helicopter was almost downed after it was caught in a drone swarm while he was visiting Kursk last week.
And They're Not "Needlessly Killing A Lot Of People"
And as Sergei Witte noted, the small number of Ukrainian casualties relative to the large number of Russian missile strikes indicates that the Russians actually aren't trying to indiscriminately kill Ukrainian civilians.
The fact that Russia can launch almost 400 munitions at Ukraine (with the vast majority hitting) and kill only a dozen people should probably be a clue that they are, in fact, not trying to terrorize and indiscriminately kill civilians.
On his show, Ron Paul made a similar point, contrasting the low Ukrainian casualties from Russian missile strikes with the high Gazan casualties from Israeli strikes.
Dear President Trump:
Wash your hands of Biden's proxy war in Ukraine.
Of course, the vastly higher population density in Gaza partly explains the higher civilian casualties, but there's also a difference in how Russia and Israel view their respective enemies. The Israelis want nothing to do with the Gazans after this war, and hope to have them moved elsewhere. The Russians, in contrast, realize the Ukrainians will always be their neighbors, and that they are closely related peoples. So there seems to be an element of restraint on the Russian side that isn't there on the Israeli side.
The War Is Now Trump's War
This point was made by the Russians with Attitude podcasters:
The moment Trump strode back into the Oval Office, history handed him a silver platter. He had the perfect opportunity for a clean, swaggering exit from the Ukrainian quagmire. A single primetime address could have done it: declassify the hush‑hush casualty cables, point at the charred Bradley hulls, and declare that the criminal Biden clique had hustled America into a misbegotten proxy war. Tack on the two very real Kiev-linked attempts on his life and it would have been done.
Instead, the gears keep turning. The planes are still landing in Poland, the US army base in Wiesbaden still runs the war. There are two explanations for this: firstly, he never intended to disengage America from the conflict, and the anti‑war patter was a mirage, conjured for Rust‑Belt rallies and some of his allies who may have been sincere. Secondly, he himself, as well as the people he put in charge of this process, are grossly incompetent.
Either way, the result is identical on the field: America is killing Russians every day, and every HIMARS rocket, every Starlink-guided drone, every artillery shell, every missile now belongs to Trump. It is Trump's war now, and he can repeat his talking points as much as he wants, but that is not going to change -- Trump deliberately kept the war going and he deliberately tied the fate of American security and credibility to the criminal regime in Kiev.
Russian diplomacy remains courteous; someone has to be the adult here -- but the Kremlin is well aware of this. Putin was not lying when he said that, ultimately, it would not matter to Russia all that much who won the US presidential election. Trump had a chance to prove otherwise, and he did not, whatever his reasons. History will remember that.
An additional point here is that the longer Trump waits to pull the plug on the Ukraine, the more embarrassing the end will be for him. The sooner he pulls the plug, the more this will be seen as a European proxy war against Russia rather than an American one. And the Europeans will be the ones taking the L, not us.
If America exits from the war, Trump can move on to establishing profitable trade relations with Russia: hiring them to build nuclear icebreakers for us, importing their oil, sending our oil companies to drill their arctic fields, etc.
Nah , this is just the rantings of Russki bastard asset Daniel Ivandjiiski vomiting Russki bastard propaganda.
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