LOL, so what is Putin doing in Ukraine, deporting Ukraine citizens and importing Russians?
Posted on 05/25/2025 6:21:54 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Trump in a new post on Truth Social on Sunday night accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of having gone “absolutely” crazy and said if he did not stop what he was doing, it would lead to the downfall of his country.
The social media comments came after Trump had issued some of his toughest comments about Putin earlier in remarks to reporters in New Jersey.
“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!,” Trump wrote.
“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,” Trump said.
“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!”
Trump then turned toward Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who he has repeatedly criticized. Zelensky on Sunday had faulted the silence of the U.S. and other countries in the wake of the latest missile and drone barrage from Russia against his country, an assault that killed a dozen people.
“Likewise, President Zelenskyy is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does,” Trump said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
It’s a conundrum.
Even the Cold War was frozen on the basis that literally every country in the world agreed that internationally agreed borders between countries that have no beef with each other should be inviolable.
For over seventy years, this has been the settled international position and even Xi abides by it. It’s got sod all to do with globalism.
Two leaders in my lifetime have rejected that principle. Saddam Hussein when genociding the Kurds and invading Kuwait, and Putin culturally genociding Georgia, Chechnya and Ukraine before and after invading them.
Putin is a far bigger threat to world peace than Saddam ever was.
But you can’t put the Z cult down as easily as we put the Baa’th cult down. Putin’s regime has got nukes and Putin’s mad enough to use them. Even in 83 when the Soviets nearly triggered a nuclear exchange, the West believed cooler heads would prevail. The USSR wasn’t in thrall to one man on an ideological crusade.
Europe currently thinks Moscow is more dangerous now than the Soviet Union was in 83. It might be less armed and less disciplined, but it’s led by utter crazies.
Seems like POTUS is finally waking up and smelling the coffee. Zelensky’s not helping, but he ain’t the real problem.
“So, do you think Putin would be right to dismiss President Trump?”
Russia is going to fight this war to the end, and fight any other country, to its end, if needed.
It’s not complicated - they are tired of being tricked and lied to, time after time, by the West.
It was us who ignited it when we piled up our weapons a half hour away from Moscow. Anybody who did this to Washington would find themselves at war with the US, but you think the Qestern World can do what it wants and it is innocent.
Sorry, but remind me again what year was it that the west moved weapons within hours of Moscow.
Oh really? Please tell us all when the West "piled up our weapons a half hour away from Moscow" to "ignite" it?
Putin seized Crimea in 2014. Obama refused to provide weapons to Ukraine.
Putin started separatist war in 2014 in Ukraine, Obama refused to provide weapons to Ukraine for two years.
Trump came into office and provided Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles in 2017.
Us, when we expanded NATO. You really can’t expect Moscow to think we mean good when we militarize borders with Russia.
Is this why Hillary was able to stay in politics because of this level of blindness?
When we expanded NATO, we would militarize the border.
Even Obama recognize the legal right to Crimea.
Since Zee has been taking steps to make Russian illegal within the Ukaraine, you can’t expect Putin to not react to that, since it’s literally ethnic cleansing.
LOL, so what is Putin doing in Ukraine, deporting Ukraine citizens and importing Russians?
Ukraine can stop any time it wants to.
The UN recognizes territories gained in war belonging to the country that gained them. What else should Putin do with the territories that it gained in war?
It’s Zelenskyy, with his European master that decided to wage a war to the last Ukraine.
How many NATO troops were in Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania that were threatening Russia?
Answer, just a bare minimum trip-wire force.
Acting like that's a serious threat to invade Russia which has the #2 military in the world is idiocy.
Would we have assassinated hitler if given the chance?
So launching 10s of thousands of drones, missiles, and rockets into Ukraine is okay, but trying to shoot down a helicopter pitin is flying in is “out of order”???
I have no clue as to what you’re on.
Stop what? Defending itself from Putins invasion and land grab?
Ukraine agreed to the US planned 30 day TOTAL ceasefire.
Russia rejected it.
President Trump isn’t taking ceasefires and peace and pitin launches larger waves of drones and missiles into Ukraine, not sure it’s to difficult to see “what’s going on”
Truth
Do personnel have to be there if our automated or remote weapons are there?
You know the US would not tolerate the exact same treatment it gave Russia. It would justify the need for war, but according to you, the US is so angelic that it can pile up weapons along the border of a country and put that country in a position of being defeated without using personnel and that country is supposed to believe that the US doesn’t mean harm.
Sorry, if NATO piles up weapons along the border, the Western leaders mean 100% harm at some point. Otherwise, they wouldn’t pile up weapons along the border. If the West didn’t mean harm, it shouldn’t have been piling weapons next to Russia.
Yes, the Ukraine can stop the war anytime it wants to just like another country that lost its war.
Right, so its Ukraine that decided to "wage a war" by invading no one. Okay
So was it Poland in WW2 that "decided to wage a war" against the nazis or was it Hitler that started the war?
Countries that invade others are the ones that decided to "wage war".
I have been contemplating who Trump is trolling.
My best conclusion I have is that Trump is trolling NATO’s European member states, especially France and Germany.
They are going to have to step up on their own, especially after condemning Israel.
Whether the Euroweenies like it or not.
There are a lot of moving parts to this machine now, tariff talks, Recognition of a Palestinain state by the Euroweenies,and a failure to join in on a strategic strike on Iran.
I’d say Trump has them by the short hairs and is pulling on a few, hard.
Thats the best I can come up with.Or the worst.LOL.
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