Posted on 12/12/2024 10:11:22 AM PST by marcusmaximus
President-elect Donald Trump promised in a wide-ranging Time magazine interview published Thursday that he will not “abandon” Ukraine amid its nearly three-year-long war — but called the Biden administration’s decision to green-light launching long-range missiles into Russia “the most dangerous thing.”
Trump, 78, has long sought peace between the nations but rarely discussed details on how he would negotiate an end to the conflict, before sitting down with Time as he was named the outlet’s “Person of the Year” for 2024.
“I want to reach an agreement, and the only way you’re going to reach an agreement is not to abandon,” the once and future president said after being pressed on his plans for Ukraine.
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Trump also spoke at length about the despair he feels over the mounting casualties.
“The number of people dying is number one, not sustainable, and I’m talking on both sides,” the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president said. “It’s really an advantage to both sides to get this thing done.”
“Putin would have never invaded Ukraine if I were president for numerous reasons,” he explained. “Number one, they drove up the oil price. When they drove up the oil price, they made it a profit-making situation for him, the oil price should have been driven down. If it was driven down, you wouldn’t have had, it wouldn’t have started just for pure economic reasons.
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“I mean, he made, he made a lot of money. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, because he’s also suffered, but they are moving forward,” he assessed. “You know, this is a war that’s been — this is a tragedy. This is death that’s far greater than anyone knows. When the real numbers come out, you’re going to see numbers that you’re not going to believe.”
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All the Russia and Putin cheerleaders here are going to be really disappointed when Trump gets in and lowers the boom on Russia and not Ukraine as they hope.
Remember Crimea...the Ukrainian soldiers simply said...."We're outa here".
President Trump has a job to do (deportations., tax cuts, deep state neutering,etc.) over the next 4 years. Putin needs to end his war nonsense and not distract President Trump from his mission at home.
Putin will not get what he wants from President Trump.
Continuing the war only means more dead Ukrainians and more dead Ukrainians.
audit the money trail first
Like a broken clock, you did get something right for once -- Trump must focus on our problems -- but to do that he must end us involvement in his war. That means cutting off all military funding to Ukraine and getting us out of there and hellholes like Syria.
You pretend Russians aren’t getting slaughtered. President Trump says you’re wrong.
These are President Trump’s exact words from his interview with Time Magazine for Man of the Year.
the numbers of dead soldiers that have been killed in the last month are numbers that are staggering, both Russians and Ukrainians, and the amounts are fairly equal. You know, I know they like to say they weren’t, but they’re fairly equal, but the numbers of dead young soldiers lying on fields all over the place are staggering. It’s crazy what’s taking place. It’s crazy.
the level, the number of people dying is number one, not sustainable, and I’m talking on both sides. It’s really an advantage to both sides to get this thing done.
https://time.com/7201565/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-transcript/
Russia will give Ukraine a corridor for shipping.
And they will negotiate separately a gas deal. Ukraine was getting hefty fees from the countries receiving their their gas via Ukraine.
Everyone knows that Climate change is real....and they also know that no matter what the world does....they will not change the climate. That's God's job.
I use the changing of the clocks twice a year as the ultimate stupidity of man. You can't change sunrise and sunset by changing your clocks.
Yep.
President Trump just said he will continue to fund Ukraine as negotiation leverage against Putin.
It depends on the meaning of “Abandon”
You Zeepers are going to be very disappointed when Ruzzia keeps
The Ethnic Ruzzia Territory in YouCrayne.
And Trump cuts YouCrayne Grift off.
Plus, no more long range Rockets to Z-Man.
There will be no NATO Membership for Z-Man.
President Trump isn’t going to tolerate Putin’s nonsense.
What must be abandoned is Z-man’s idea of Ukraine joining NATO.
Ukraine was never going to join NATO. It was just an excuse for Putin to go Mongol and try to rebuild his beloved USSR.
What nonsense would that be?
Not accurate....Z has been Milking the Biden Bull...and Bi likes it!
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