Posted on 09/18/2023 12:00:17 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
Ukraine could have avoided hundreds of thousands of deaths and lost less land if it had reached a peace deal with Russia before the conflict began last February, former US President Donald Trump told NBC News in an interview aired on Sunday.
The loss of Ukrainian territory to Russia is “something that could have been negotiated,” Trump told NBC host Kristen Welker, adding that “a lot of people expected” Kiev to abandon its claims to “Crimea and other parts of the country” in exchange for peace.
“So they could have made a deal where there’s less territory [lost] than Russia has already taken,” Trump continued. “They could have made a deal where nobody was killed…they would have had a Ukrainian country. Now nobody even knows if Ukraine is going to be totally taken over.”
By “other parts of the country,” Trump was likely referring to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, whose sovereignty Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized three days before Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began. Following referendums last September, both regions have now joined the Russian Federation, along with the formerly Ukrainian territories of Kherson and Zaporozhye. Crimea voted to rejoin Russia in 2014.
Grandpa always told me, “ya can’t fix Stupid,” and all I can wonder now is when you two met.
You’re imposing on Russia the Cold War perspective of the Soviet Union, while in ring the behavior of NATO and the West that tends to provoke from Russia the very behavior we then perceive as aggressive. We don’t live in a comic book. The powers that be, which I’m sure you despise, manage us by influencing how we perceive events. Question everything they tell you is true. EVERYTHING.
Oh boy, this time Trump has really sunk his re-election chances. Sure, thousands of lives couldve been saved, but...but... blue-and-yellow flag and stuff
Agree-Poland has an excellent reason to do so-the disaster is happening right on their border, and they are taking in refugees, so they have a vested interest...
I your personal debt much bigger than your yearly income?
If yes, may be your grandpa had you in mind.
If not, they why you want USA to play world police with bankrupt Treasury?
Within 10 years, net interest costs on the national debt alone will exceed federal expenditures for Medicaid PLUS defense; and, over the next 30 years, these interest payments will be the biggest line item in the federal budget.
We are more broke than all G-20 countries.
Darn that President Trump, he's right again!
North and south Korea is a good example...and BTW...Kissinger first said it...and then....backed off
Get over it. Those Ukes will soon be speaking Ruskie again — the ones that don’t or have not bailed out of what’s left of their little country led by a corrupt freak-show clown.
And the Rooskies will have a guerilla war an their hands bigger than the Afghan incursion. You ain’t fighting a bunch of goat herders with RPGs in Ukraine.
Should an US President give American land for peace? Russia wants Alaska back.
Their ignorance is hard to rationalize since it's not as if this kind of crap hasn't been going on for decades here.
Obviously he's voting for Zelensky, Z gives free piano lessons.
Hey clowns and sycophants. NO country has the right to invade another without just cause. And “denazification” or whatever BS Russian propaganda used to justify it, is just that, BS.
Trump is wrong here. Just wrong.
Imagine us making an agreement with China to own Hawaii. How many of us would just sit back and say, well, there would be so much destruction if we fought back, so, OK!
“Biden was OK with a “minor incursion”.”
Actually, that is NOT true.
#34: Nicely and accurately stated.
He’s right again.
“maybe Russia would not be so aggressive if NATO wasn’t adding nations after the fall of the USSR despite the Bush administration promising that not a single nation would join NATO after the cold war ended?”
not true! There was never such an agreement In fact, just the opposite, it was and is understood that NATO will continue to grow as it just did with Finland joining (Sweden will join soon as well)
A majority of Americans don't want another penny of their money going to Youcrayne, so this is a smart move on Trump's part.
Who really gives a damn what the Youke-loving, LGBTQWERT-loving, baby murder-loving, child-mutilator-loving, West-hating, Christian-loathing, leftist/globalist media has to say.
Not one more penny for the hyper-corrupt, money-laundering, child trafficking craphole of Youcrayne. The $100 billion being pissed away there can be far better spent on Americans. After all, it's Americans' money, not some Eastern European kleptocracy's to be spent on yachts, mansions, vodka, bling and hookers.
Bingo! We have a winner!
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