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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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To: Kazan

Sumy in 3 days!


41 posted on 06/05/2025 9:07:21 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
He said, she said…


42 posted on 06/05/2025 9:22:30 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Slavs from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Kazan

Putin having a major sad today because President Trump refused to condemn Ukraine for blowing up all those Russian bombers. Too funny!


43 posted on 06/05/2025 9:30:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Owen

GPT ignores the B1s and B52G/Hs were put back under Global Strike Command while the J model and B21 come online. B1 and B52 pilots undergoing nuclear training even though B1s not set up for strikes (yet)....would only take a few weeks to get them nuclear capable.


44 posted on 06/05/2025 9:35:54 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: OttawaFreeper

“So is this just Axios making up stories then?”

Axios is not a friend of the USA.

Totally made up? Probably.


45 posted on 06/05/2025 9:38:16 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Bump


46 posted on 06/05/2025 9:39:58 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Bannon and Alex Jones have been covering what is going on behind the scenes right now pretty well.

The fact that the FilFlam man Zelensky did this attack with US intel without POTUS approval or even awareness is a knife in the back to Trump and the rest of the world and treason on the part of the CIA/DoD intel agencies...

Also nobody seems to care about the fact that Russian hypersonics can deliver unlimited ordnance to anywhere on Earth and there is no defense for it.

So Zel and the West are relying on Putin’s good judgement to not use unstoppable weapons and destroy us...


47 posted on 06/05/2025 10:14:49 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: Texas Fossil

Yep. I agree.


48 posted on 06/05/2025 10:16:05 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Why didn’t President Trump condemn Ukraine’s attack on the bombers?


49 posted on 06/05/2025 10:16:59 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: DCBryan1

B-1s exist but they aren’t counted because it’s not that trivial to upgrade to operational.

It also isn’t all that important. US warhead distribution is 80% submarines. Russian 60%.


50 posted on 06/05/2025 10:19:59 AM PDT by Owen
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To: marcusmaximus

He did to Putin.

But he understandably doesn’t want to make this public until he has a solution to the treason going on in DoD and the intel agencies...


51 posted on 06/05/2025 10:44:16 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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