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Trump calls for Russia and Ukraine to reach agreement to end war
thehill.com ^ | 4/18/2022 | MONIQUE BEALS

Posted on 04/18/2022 4:48:27 PM PDT by bitt

Former President Trump on Monday called for an end to the violence in Ukraine weeks after Moscow launched its unprovoked military attack.

“It doesn’t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren’t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement,” Trump, who initially praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as “smart” over the invasion before later denouncing the move as genocide, said in a statement.

“If they don’t do it soon, there will be nothing left but death, destruction, and carnage,” he added.

“This is a war that never should have happened, but it did. The solution can never be as good as it would have been before the shooting started, but there is a solution, and it should be figured out now—not later—when everyone will be DEAD!” the former president also said.

Trump had drawn bipartisan criticism for remarks made in the early days of Russia’s invasion.

“They asked me if Putin is smart. Yes, Putin was smart,” he said at a rally last month.

“That’s a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 troops on the border,” Trump added at the time. “That was a big mistake, but it looked like a great negotiation. That didn’t work out too well for him.”

After Putin recognized two eastern regions in Ukraine as independent just ahead of Moscow’s invasion, Trump also called the authoritarian leader “very savvy.” He has appeared to walk back those remarks and has condemned the invasion as “a holocaust.”

Now, weeks into the war, millions of Ukrainians have fled the country and almost​​ 2,000 civilians have been killed in the attack, according to the United Nation’s Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.

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1 posted on 04/18/2022 4:48:27 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 04/18/2022 4:48:39 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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If Trump was president this disaster would never have happened.


3 posted on 04/18/2022 4:50:13 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: bitt

Bout time someone called for a settlement to this.


4 posted on 04/18/2022 4:50:28 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: bitt

Thank God. Some common sense at last.


5 posted on 04/18/2022 4:50:59 PM PDT by livius
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To: escapefromboston

Never would have happened. They would have been talking and working things out instead of shooting.


6 posted on 04/18/2022 4:51:16 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: escapefromboston

It would only postpone the inevitable. Putin would simply had waited for the next Democratic President to get elected


7 posted on 04/18/2022 4:53:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: bitt

Trump said Putin was savvy for waiting until Trump was out of office.

And Trump said, “Putin is smart, but the problem is our leaders are Dumb”

Neither was praise for Putin invading. Both were backhanded slaps at the Biden administration.


8 posted on 04/18/2022 4:54:23 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Thanks Donald. Really helpful.


9 posted on 04/18/2022 4:54:55 PM PDT by Reaganez
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To: bitt

Trump’s still the man, saying the obvious once again. But the neocon globalists want it and are unfortunately in control at the moment. But by all means speak up!


10 posted on 04/18/2022 4:55:00 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: KC_Conspirator
Agree with you absolutely.

It was a Civil War...going back to 2014.

But it really goes back to the US instigated coup and seating of the Chocolate King...a dictator AND a true hater of everything or anyone Russian....no Russian to be taught in schools and/or even spoken.

11 posted on 04/18/2022 4:55:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: bitt

This is going to trigger the anger of the warmongering bloodthirsty pacifists on the Left


12 posted on 04/18/2022 4:56:42 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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Good for DJT. Now he should offer to mediate a peace treaty. Rub it in the Rats faces.


13 posted on 04/18/2022 4:57:13 PM PDT by laplata (")
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To: bitt

The snarky tone of the article makes more sense when you know that Monique Beals graduated UCLA in 2017. We have a teenage female mentality foreign policy.


14 posted on 04/18/2022 4:57:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Now DJT should offer to mediate a peace treaty. Rub it in the Rats faces.


15 posted on 04/18/2022 4:58:04 PM PDT by laplata (")
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To: ReaganGeneration2

It’s going to trigger the anger of the war mongers on FR.


16 posted on 04/18/2022 4:59:31 PM PDT by livius
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To: bitt

I believe that Trump said those things in regards to the pre-invasion expectation that Putin would focus on the Donbas and not in response to Putin’s botched invasion of, and bombing campaign against, multiple parts of Ukraine.


17 posted on 04/18/2022 5:00:02 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: bitt

So if China invaded the US, Trump would want us to come to an “agreement” with the invading army? oh boy


18 posted on 04/18/2022 5:01:10 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Not the same thing.


19 posted on 04/18/2022 5:02:56 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: livius

Heck with them. If a person is that bored, aged and worn out that they need a war to fire themselves up, they can go to hell.


20 posted on 04/18/2022 5:03:15 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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