Posted on 01/31/2025 11:43:37 AM PST by BenLurkin
In the video Trump appears as saying:
"I do think Putin is a strong leader, and I respect that, but he plays bad games. And that always ends badly. We all remember the story of Saddam, Ceausescu, and, of course, Gadhafi ... terrible death. I tell you, but that's how it ends. So, Vladimir, let's not let it come to that."
The video went viral by Jan. 24, spilling over to other social media platforms and even news outlets.
Then, BAZA, ce Hʼyuston Telegram channel’s SMM specialists announced in the comment to the original post that the video is a deepfake generated with the use of artificial intelligence.
The goal of the campaign was to "demoralize" the "most active Russians," and "we did a good job," the channel said in a comment.
The channel’s description corroborates with their claimed activities as it includes a link leading to the website with the main page stating, "We make cool deepfakes."
Later, two Ukrainian news sites, New Voice and Antikor, as well as a Georgian fact-checking outlet Myth Detector, also reported the Trump video address to Putin was deepfake.
On Jan. 22, U.S. President Trump urged Russia to end its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, warning of high tariffs, taxes, and sanctions if a peace deal isn’t reached soon. In a Truth Social post, he called on Putin to "settle now" and stop the war, emphasizing that it would "only going to get worse."
Trump stated that while he has always had a good relationship with Putin and admires the Russian people, he would have no choice but to impose economic penalties on Russian exports to the U.S. and allied nations if the war continues.
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“Putin is a strong leader, and I respect that, but he plays bad games. And that always ends badly. We all remember the story of Saddam, Ceausescu, and, of course, Gadhafi ... terrible death. I tell you, but that’s how it ends. So, Vladimir, let’s not let it come to that.”
“...the story of Saddam, Ceausescu, and, of course, Gadhafi ... terrible death. I tell you, but that’s how it ends. So, Vladimir, let’s not let it come to that.”
All KGB proteges. They eventually die in office or are killed by their own ppl.
Assad on deck.
“Fake but accurate”?
Fooled them-so did SDI.
bttt
“We begin bombing in five minutes”
Great, some nitwit trying to start WW3.
Trump apparently was in contact with Putin yesterday.
The Unipolor world is over. Russia, China and the US all have legimate security concerns and spheres of influence; diplomacy will, u der Trump, begin and will prevent clashes.
Rubio has now said the US lied to Ukraine in dragging them into a war.
Looks like Biden satabotaged Trump’s pre-election plan for peace. Now Trump is washing his hands of Biden’s war.
Three years ago I knew this would be the final outcome... Never trust a democrat.
The negotiated outcome will take more than a year and will have no cease fire. Kudos to Trump and Rubio for reversing the past 16 years of Obama and Biden corruption.
The US only seeks a negotiated peace which will contine long after Russia defeats Ukraine.
Any agreements have to also take Belarus into account, there should be a guarantee that neither NATO nor the Russians will stage troops there.
But then, we all know what Prog Socialist Thieves and Grifters Publicly "Funded" VOA are.
DJT, hold on to that statement.
This cr@p needs to be stopped; someone is gonna do a deepfake with AI like this and start a war...
It didn’t fool anyone.
“ The Unipolor world is over.”
Are you Madeleine Albright?
Just repeating SecState Rubio. Your 1990s are calling;)
We have come full circle. Trump is retuning the world to a time where the NATO Genie is put back into its defensive bottle, and the US & Russia become equals diplomatically.
12 days was all it took Trump and Rubio to slay the DOJ, FBI, DEI, and Ukraine. MAGA will destroy the DNC for a generation.
Madame Notsobright was a tad better than Hillary, and that’s not saying much. But Blinken-idiot is our worst SecState ever.
I believe that it is only a matter of time before Russia, Belarus and most of Ukraine are reunited as a part of Russia under Moscow.
The US legacy of coups snce the 1990s have forced all nations to seek allies due to our meddling.
You like propagandizing for foreign regimes?
Your Biden war is over. Macron is finished. The Germans are finshed too with Ukraine. Trump will talk to only Russia, and in 120 days elections in Germany and France will join Trump.
FJB & Ukraine, along with weak mind-controlled zeepers.
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