Robert DeLong I really don’t like spending time with your nonsense.
The drones would be the “more” Trump wanted after the jets, the drones would be in addition to the jets, among other things we could send.
The headline of the interview is “Trump says US needs to get off the sidelines in Ukraine’s fight for survival”
That “very 1st paragraph:” you mention are the words of the writer of the article you chose to believe, it is not Trump reversing what he said about sending jets just a minute before and kept verifying in the interview, the writer mislead you.
STUART: SO WHAT DO YOU DO NOW? YOU SAID YOU’D MAYBE DO MORE
THAN JUST SEND IN THE MIG JETS,
ALL RIGHT WHAT MORE?
TRUMP—WELL WHAT I WOULD DO IS I WOULD, WE WOULD, WE HAVE
TREMENDOUS MILITARY CAPABILITY AND WHAT WE CAN DO WITHOUT PLANE IS TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, WITHOUT 44-YEAR-OLD JETS, WHAT WE CAN DO IS ENORMOUS, AND WE SHOULD BE DOING IT AND WE SHOULD BE HELPING THEM TO SURVIVE AND THEY’RE DOING AN AMAZING JOB
(snip talk about oil etc)
STUART: WELL LET ME PRESS YOU AGAIN ON WHAT EXTRA MILITARY
HELP YOU WOULD GIVE TO THE UKRAINIANS.
YOU SAY YOU WANT TO DO MORE THAN JUST THE MIG JETS OR THE
JAVELINS.
WHAT MORE?
TRUMP—WELL I THINK THE DRONES ARE
JUST AS EFFECTIVE AS ANYTHING
NOW.
THEY MAKE DRONES TODAY, WE MAKE,
WE HAVE DRONES THAT ARE JUST AS
EFFECTIVE AS JUST ABOUT
ANYTHING IN THE AIR, ANYTHING
YOU CAN DO IN THE AIR AND YOU
CAN DO DRONES PLUS THEY GIVE
BACK TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF
INFORMATION AND THE INFORMATION
LEADS MISSILES RIGHT TO WHATEVER
THE HELL TARGET THEY ARE AND
THEREFORE, YOU’RE BEING NEUTRAL,
IT SO RIDICULOUS.
LOOK, STUART, WHEN HE GOES IN AND HE KILLS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, ARE WE GOING TO JUST SIT BY AND WATCH?
The writer you trusted showed you 2 1/2 minutes of the interview that was 10 minutes long, if you would just read the portion of the transcript of that interview that I had already posted, which is from the SAME interview your source manipulated, you would see what Trump was saying.
The bottom line is that you really waste people’s time.
Well, that's your subjective opinion. I respect your right to believe that, though I disagree with it.
Now, back to the topic. I'll stipulate that it was his opinion back then shortly after Russia had invaded. He's been quiet except to say that a solution needs to happen to find a peaceful resolution. That hardly sounds like he continues to feel as he did back then, but I could be wrong. I will agree with him that if you are going to get involved in a conflict, then don't do it on a tepid basis. That is what loses conflicts not win them. But then also realize we will be throwing the world into its third world war, without question. I certainly would prefer to not go there, and I think I am far from being alone in that as well.
I still refuse to stand with providing aid to Ukraine. They are as corrupt as Russia, but more importantly Zelenskyy has entered into a Faustian agreement of evil with the Democrats, and even worse, the WEF & The One World Government/New World Order. I cannot, nor will I, side with evil.
Furthermore, I cannot support the saving of a foreign nation, while our leaders allow our nation to face an even larger invasion that has major, mostly negative, impacts upon our nation. I'm being generous in that there may be some positive impacts that I don't see. It's a benefit to reducing wages, which is a positive for those who hire people. At least at first, at any rate, because the downside for them is that their customer base becomes weakened.
Lastly, I am tired of the continuous piling of debt upon my children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren while their country is not only being taken from them but is further taking away the freedoms of people living in this country, as well as, worldwide.
Bottom line for me is, that I will never support this war that was indeed provoked because of the desire by the leadership of both the U.K. & the U.S. to engage in a proxy war. Since the leader of Ukraine agreed to place his country in the jeopardy it now finds itself involved in, I feel sorry for her citizens, but elections have consequences, and when you provide unfettered access to the neo-Nazis to run rough-shod over a portion of your citizenry, then you lose my support. For Germany it was Jews, for Ukraine it is Russians, for me there is no difference in the actions between Hitler & Zelenskyy.
I will continue to battle you tooth & nail against this immoral war, because both sides have been at fault. But beyond that I'm convinced beyond all doubt that like the rest of our military misadventures in the last 20 years, it will not be successful.
We do not have the money, and if BRICS is successful with dethroning the U.S. currency as the world's reserve, we will collapse.
Ukraine is neither a national security threat to the U.S. and most likely not one for Europe either. It most certainly is not worth the destruction of freedom, because that is what will happen, mark my words, when this nation falls.