Trump Suggests Giving Vladimir Putin Whatever He Wants
If Ukraine were to suddenly surrender to Russia, everything would be “much better,” at least according to Donald Trump.During an afternoon press conference Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee urged the Eastern European nation to submit to the foreign power, claiming that any deal, no matter how dismal for Ukraine’s freedom, would have been better than the current state of affairs.“Ukraine is gone. It’s not Ukraine anymore. You can never replace those cities and towns, and you can never replace the dead people, so many dead people,” Trump said. “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.“If they made a bad deal, it would have been much better, they would have given up a little bit,” he continued. “And everybody would be living, and every building would be built, and every tower would be aging for another 2,000 years.”Trump turned his attention quickly to Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming that she “doesn’t know what she’s doing”—despite the fact that she’s not the current president overseeing the ongoing war. Trump then went on a spiraling tirade that had startling similarities to foreign propaganda, claiming that “more cities will fall” and “the ones that fell will continue to receive more and more bombs” unless Ukraine bends the knee to Russia.“It didn’t need to happen,” Trump said. The former president also slammed Ukraine’s leader, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for continuing to lobby the U.S. government for increased military aid, though Trump conveniently failed to mention how he personally worked to block a $110.5 billion foreign aid package to Ukraine last winter while pressuring Senate Republicans to bargain for a more extreme border security package. But Trump does have his own plan to institute peace in the besieged region. In June, Trump’s advisers announced that, should he win in November, Trump would facilitate talks between the two nations that would more or less force Ukraine to cede part of its territory occupied by Russian forces. The plan’s obvious benefit to Russia resurfaced concerns over Trump’s notoriously cushy—and sometimes subservient—relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelenskiy is currently scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden on Thursday, where he will present a so-called “victory plan” to end the conflict, reported The Washington Post.The two-year conflict has seen the decimation of the vast majority of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure at the hands of Russian forces. At the United Nations on Wednesday, Zelenskiy warned international leaders that Russia was planning to attack Ukraine’s nuclear plants.“Just imagine, please, your country, with 80 percent of its energy system gone.… What kind of life would that be?” Zelenskiy said. “If, God forbid, Russia causes a nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants, radiation will not respect state borders.”
If Ukraine were to suddenly surrender to Russia, everything would be “much better,” at least according to Donald Trump.
During an afternoon press conference Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee urged the Eastern European nation to submit to the foreign power, claiming that any deal, no matter how dismal for Ukraine’s freedom, would have been better than the current state of affairs.
“Ukraine is gone. It’s not Ukraine anymore. You can never replace those cities and towns, and you can never replace the dead people, so many dead people,” Trump said. “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.
“If they made a bad deal, it would have been much better, they would have given up a little bit,” he continued. “And everybody would be living, and every building would be built, and every tower would be aging for another 2,000 years.”
Trump turned his attention quickly to Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming that she “doesn’t know what she’s doing”—despite the fact that she’s not the current president overseeing the ongoing war. Trump then went on a spiraling tirade that had startling similarities to foreign propaganda, claiming that “more cities will fall” and “the ones that fell will continue to receive more and more bombs” unless Ukraine bends the knee to Russia.
“It didn’t need to happen,” Trump said.
The former president also slammed Ukraine’s leader, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for continuing to lobby the U.S. government for increased military aid, though Trump conveniently failed to mention how he personally worked to block a $110.5 billion foreign aid package to Ukraine last winter while pressuring Senate Republicans to bargain for a more extreme border security package.
But Trump does have his own plan to institute peace in the besieged region. In June, Trump’s advisers announced that, should he win in November, Trump would facilitate talks between the two nations that would more or less force Ukraine to cede part of its territory occupied by Russian forces. The plan’s obvious benefit to Russia resurfaced concerns over Trump’s notoriously cushy—and sometimes subservient—relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelenskiy is currently scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden on Thursday, where he will present a so-called “victory plan” to end the conflict, reported The Washington Post.
The two-year conflict has seen the decimation of the vast majority of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure at the hands of Russian forces. At the United Nations on Wednesday, Zelenskiy warned international leaders that Russia was planning to attack Ukraine’s nuclear plants.
“Just imagine, please, your country, with 80 percent of its energy system gone.… What kind of life would that be?” Zelenskiy said. “If, God forbid, Russia causes a nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants, radiation will not respect state borders.”
