Fact check: Trump's latest fake history about the war in Ukraine

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trump is lying about the amount of US support for Ukraine

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Fact check: Trump’s latest fake history about the war in Ukraine www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/p...

— Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 (@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social) 2025-08-15T15:07:39.932Z

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war

Trump has made the claim over and over again. The US, he keeps asserting, has given Ukraine triple or more the amount of wartime aid that Europe has – $350 billion from the US compared to just $100 billion from Europe.

“Biden gave them $350 billion. Europe gave $100 billion. It should be much more than that,” Trump said Monday, adding, “They should have had equalization, but they didn’t.” He repeated these figures Thursday: “We spent $350 billion …They spent $100 billion.”

Trump’s claim is not only wrong but a reversal of reality. In fact, as numerous fact checks have pointed out, Europe has done more than equalize – it has given more wartime aid to Ukraine than the US has.

According to figures from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank that tracks the aid data, Europe – the European Union plus individual European countries – collectively allocated about $195 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine from late January 2022 through June 2025; the US allocated about $134 billion for Ukraine over the same period (all figures are at Thursday exchange rates). The gap was even bigger in aid committed to Ukraine as opposed to aid actually allocated: about $300 billion committed by Europe compared to about $139 billion committed by the US.

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1. A White House official attempted to justify trump's lies

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2. I had this already to post but you beat me to it. Good article.

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3. I heard something like this on talk radio a few days ago

Dear Leader has said it. Dear Leader knows all. 🙄

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4. The problems with this are as follows:

1. Trump is incapable of honesty, except by accident -which very rarely occurs.
2. Trump is stupid.
3. Trump is astonishingly weak.
4. Trump is supported by stupid, immoral nitwits whose only concerns are "owning the libs" or (in a minority of cases) making money over the Whiner-in-Chief.

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5. Fact check: Trump's latest fake history about the war in UkraiIne. MORE from story above................

Trump just makes up stories and passes them onto reporters like they are the Truth!!



Fact check: Trump’s latest fake history about the war in Ukraine

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fact-check-trump-s-latest-fake-history-about-the-war-in-ukraine/ar-AA1KAoC4?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=689f60d764ab422486b4916346290c71&ei=10


Story by Daniel Dale, CNN • 2h •
9 min read


President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he knew why Russian troops weren’t able to enter Kyiv in the days after they invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russia’s tanks, Trump said, got destroyed by missiles “because the tanks got stuck in the mud.”

“You know, they would’ve been in Kyiv in four hours going down the highway. But a Russian general made a brilliant decision to go through the farmland instead,” he said, sarcastically criticizing the supposed general.


This is fake history, as military analysts and various Ukrainians have pointed out since the president began making similar claims months ago. In reality, Russia tried and failed to make it to Kyiv using roads and highways. Its tanks were thwarted by fierce Ukrainian resistance and logistical problems in addition to muddy conditions.

“Russian forces used roads and highways as much as possible during the initial invasion, and took heavy losses on many of them. Russian tanks did get stuck in the mud during the initial invasion, but this was often after they struggled to advance along roads,” said Rob Lee, a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program who has closely followed military tactics during the war. “One of the factors that hindered Russia’s invasion is that there were not many good highways and roads leading from Belarus to Kyiv, which canalized their forces.”


When CNN asked the White House for comment, an official responding on condition of anonymity noted Thursday that Russian tanks did get stuck in mud during and even before the invasion. The official provided links to some articles that mentioned this happening.

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Trump’s phony narrative about the Russian invasion is only the latest in a long line of false claims from the president about the war. Among other things, Trump has this year:

INCLUDED A LONG LIST OF THINGS TRUMP LIED ABOUT THE UKRAINE WAR:

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6. I am shocked, shocked I tell ya, that trump lied.

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7. Good to see Daniel Dale working.

Haven't heard from him in quite a while and was afraid CNN had capitulated to TSF and fired him or something. He kept track of TSF's lies in his first term. I still can't believe voters elected such a well-documented torrential bullshitter.

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8. Europe has now passed the United States in terms of defense procurement in support of Ukraine.

Since trump has stopped funding Ukraine, Europe has stepped up.

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