Posted on 11/15/2024 9:30:25 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Donald Trump's cabinet choices suggest a skeptical direction of travel on Ukraine policy. Many criticize the expense of US support for Ukraine, and some have directly insulted Kyiv. Any decision would still rest with Trump, who could yet choose a more measured path.
President-elect Donald Trump has made bold claims that he can bring the invasion of Ukraine to a swift conclusion.
Though he hasn't said how he would do that, his choices in recent days for crucial cabinet roles will color his approach.
Across roles like Secretary of State, national security advisor, and Secretary of Defense, Trump has favored figures broadly less sympathetic to Ukraine than their forebears.
Their comments often focused on the financial burden of helping Ukraine — and the sense that the war has gone on too long.
Marco Rubio, who Trump appointed Secretary of State on Wednesday, praised Ukrainian forces for their efforts in fighting off Russia in the early days of the war.
But in an interview with NBC News in September, the Florida senator said the US had misstepped.
President Joe Biden's administration, he said, was funding a "stalemate" war that needed to end.
That aligns with Trump's repeated assertion that he would end the war quickly, even within a day of taking office.
Ukrainian officials tend to see that scenario as a losing one, where the conflict is frozen and Russia keeps the land it took.
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Mildly amusing because “Ukraina” literally means “the borderland”.
Trump needs to F Pooty-Poot, and get Ukraine back to feeding the peeps of da erf.
MSN?
Bwahahahaha!
MSNBC’s ‘intellectual’ advisor.
Keep that in mind when Insider Marxists praise Degenerate Zelensky's GloboHomoPedoNazi Christian killing Ethnic Cleansing, and remember MSN's media qualities as well.
Let’s see - the US intervenes in a war between belligerents that were formerly part of the same country, in an armpit of the world that most Americans can’t find on a map, with no vital US interests at stake, no obvious way to win, and no exit strategy. Where have I seen that before...
I am quite aware of that fact.
You know the Biden regime has been constantly pushing Israel to make peace but never pressure Ukraine to do the same. They are still trying to push more weapons into Ukraine before Trump takes over.
Thanks for the specific comment, it was right on point.
Not surprising, Ukraine supplies Biden little girls to "sniff", Israel won't.
Cut off Funking Ukraine and Zelensky will run to the Peace Table.
No more taxpayer dollars for Ukes.
Let the war end.
Apparently you forgot that it was Trump who sent missiles to Ukraine, while Obama stalled and stalled and would only send blankets, and while Biden was stonewalling aid to Ukraine and letting them get killed just in order to force them to fire a prosecutor.
That was then. Things change.
I wonder what Zalensky will release about the Bidens (and the rest of the fetid swamp who used Ukraine as a personal piggy bank) when Chomo Joe is out of office. How many Russian and Ukrainians have been killed to protect and enrich that decrepit old chomo and his rotten family?
“Apparently you forgot that it was Trump who sent missiles to Ukraine”
So what? He did the right thing then, and he’ll do the right thing now by sponsoring peace talks. You got a problem with peace talks?
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