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Playingmantis

(671 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 09:30 AM Aug 2025

Trump wants a Ukraine surrender [View all]

Trump want to get the Nobel peace prize and is willing to force Ukraine to surrender so he can portray himself as the great deal/peacemaker when he is nothing but a sick demented narcissist. I am so pissed! Check this out from ABC


https://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-zelenskyy-end-russia-war-immediately-white-house/story?id=124734583

Monday's Washington, D.C., summit follows Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. Since that meeting, Trump appears to have dropped his demand for Russia to agree to an immediate ceasefire and is now pressuring Kyiv to accept territorial concessions to secure a peace deal. On Sunday, Trump explicitly said Ukraine will not regain Crimea -- occupied by Russia in 2014. The president also repeated that Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO, though White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Zelenskyy have hinted at alternative security guarantees involving the U.S.

"President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight," Trump wrote on social media on Sunday. The president has previously incorrectly framed Ukraine as the initiator of the conflict, which began with Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. That invasion followed Moscow's cross-border aggression in 2014, which saw Russia seize Crimea and parts of the eastern Donbas region.

Trump then challenged Kyiv to "make the deal" and lavished praise on Putin. "Look, Russia is a very big power, and they're not," Trump told Fox News after the meeting. Putin, he added, is a "strong guy" and "tough as hell."


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Destroy democracy at home and give in to Russian aggression abroad!! Not to mention his convictions, lies and betrayals!!! Thats what this country has elected!!

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Trump wants a Ukraine surrender [View all] Playingmantis Aug 2025 OP
It took him half a year to get back to his original position newdeal2 Aug 2025 #1
Putin wouldn't be a "strong guy" True Dough Aug 2025 #2
guts??! Playingmantis Aug 2025 #4
Russian pundits are enjoying trump's cave LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #3
Americans would prefer an abdication. John Farmer Aug 2025 #5
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