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Scoop: Trump admired Ukraine's "badass" attack, but worries what's next
Axios ^ | 6/5/2025 | Marc Caputo, Barak Ravid

Posted on 06/05/2025 3:37:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

President Trump thought Ukraine's surprise drone attack over the weekend was "strong" and "badass," sources who discussed it with him tell Axios, but he's also concerned it will make his ceasefire mission even harder.

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He has been surprisingly mum in public when it comes to his personal feelings about Ukraine's attack. In private, though, he marveled at the operation.

Behind the scenes: "Pretty strong," Trump told one confidant, who relayed his remarks to Axios.

"He thought it was badass," a second source said of Trump's reaction.

One Trump adviser said: "From an international perspective, you've got a chihuahua inflicting some real damage on a much bigger dog."

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


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1 posted on 06/05/2025 3:37:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Trump is not an admirer of war.


2 posted on 06/05/2025 3:39:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: marcusmaximus

“..sources who discussed it with him tell Axios..”. So is this just Axios making up stories then?


3 posted on 06/05/2025 3:41:42 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: marcusmaximus

Anonymous sources again? BS!


4 posted on 06/05/2025 3:43:56 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: marcusmaximus

Do a google maps search of barksdale, dyess, malstrom, omaha, tinker, minot and whiteman air force bases and look how our strategic bombers (~150) are sitting out like ducks. START/SALT says that bombers must UPON REQUEST be visible to satellites. Only our B2s are in hangers and semi-protected. If I were Trump, I’d be building hardened hangers for our bombers RFN!


5 posted on 06/05/2025 3:46:21 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: marcusmaximus

Isn’t Axios a left wing ‘Trump hater’ bunch?


6 posted on 06/05/2025 3:51:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (What if stupidity isn’t about intelligence at all, but about surrendering the will to think?Bonhoeff)
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To: DCBryan1

Yes, I have had the same thought. We need the Golden dome ASAP. Priorities.


7 posted on 06/05/2025 3:55:42 AM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: marcusmaximus
giddy much?


8 posted on 06/05/2025 3:57:31 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: marcusmaximus

“Trump told one confidant”

I have a feeling Trump’s “confidants” know damn well if they leak private conversations all hell will break lose. In other words, this is a lefty-lucy story based on anonymous sources that exist only in the mind of the communist that wrote the story.


9 posted on 06/05/2025 3:58:03 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: DCBryan1

Before this attack, hardened hangers had been being discussed and it looked to me like a building plan was on its way, we are way behind China on them though and this isn’t just about domestic bases but in the Pacific and elsewhere, it looks like an expensive item coming up.


10 posted on 06/05/2025 4:02:28 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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“...building hardened hangers for our bombers...”

Yep.

Agreements can lose their utility over time.

We’re lucky this happened first to Putin’s Russia.


11 posted on 06/05/2025 4:05:54 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: marcusmaximus

Yeah, that’s why Trump called Putin and told him he wasn’t the one running the country.


12 posted on 06/05/2025 4:07:08 AM PDT by McGruff
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During and after the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy kept the US strategic bomber fleet protected. It was ordered to be “armed and in the air”. You can’t hit the airplanes if you don’t know where they are. This alert stayed in place until President Carter cancelled it many years later.


13 posted on 06/05/2025 4:08:28 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: ansel12

We should have started planning, AND building such hangars years ago.

Another example to add to Vance’s assertion that we have been governed for years by morons, and worse.


14 posted on 06/05/2025 4:08:36 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Sacajaweau
Trump is not an admirer of war.

President Trump is an admirer of countries that conduct a robust defense of their homeland against shameless aggressors.

President Trump admires the moxie of an underdog like President Zelensky.

In Zelensky's position, President Trump would do the same (or worse!).

But you're right insofar as President Trump is definitely not an admirer of the war of aggression waged by crackpot dictators Putin and his buddy "Rocketman" Kim Jong Un.

Regards,

15 posted on 06/05/2025 4:08:37 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: DCBryan1
START/SALT says that bombers must UPON REQUEST be visible to satellites.

There is currently NO TREATY in force which would require the U.S. to subject its bombers to satellite inspection.

The U.S. withdrew (for good reason) from the "Open Skies Treaty" in 2020.

The Russians withdrew from New SALT in Feb. of 2023.

You are clearly references defunct treaties. Why?

Regards,

16 posted on 06/05/2025 4:12:31 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: marcusmaximus

The video of the attack is indeed badass. It looks like a bunch of teenagers did it with cheap quadcopter drones, merely flying them over fuel tanks of planes and bombers and going boom. Russia tried to hide the planes by putting tires on the wings on a pathetic but futile attempt to hide them. It was so easy, and it shows how we to are vulnerable to such an attack at forward air bases and even here at home.


17 posted on 06/05/2025 4:14:04 AM PDT by montag813
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To: marcusmaximus

Once again a leftist rag making up things. I guess the “advisor” is too chicken to reveal his name. 🙄


18 posted on 06/05/2025 4:48:14 AM PDT by dforest
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To: marcusmaximus

MI6, NATO, Germany, the CIA. Not exactly a collective chihuahua.


19 posted on 06/05/2025 4:50:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Sacajaweau

More lies from the antichrost media.


20 posted on 06/05/2025 5:08:50 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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