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 ...
Trump is not an admirer of war.
“..sources who discussed it with him tell Axios..”. So is this just Axios making up stories then?
Anonymous sources again? BS!
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!
Isn’t Axios a left wing ‘Trump hater’ bunch?
Yes, I have had the same thought. We need the Golden dome ASAP. Priorities.
“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.
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.
“...building hardened hangers for our bombers...”
Yep.
Agreements can lose their utility over time.
We’re lucky this happened first to Putin’s Russia.
Yeah, that’s why Trump called Putin and told him he wasn’t the one running the country.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
Once again a leftist rag making up things. I guess the “advisor” is too chicken to reveal his name. 🙄
MI6, NATO, Germany, the CIA. Not exactly a collective chihuahua.
More lies from the antichrost media.
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