Posted on 01/07/2025 3:39:09 PM PST by bimboeruption
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he sympathized with the Russian position that Ukraine should not be part of NATO, and he lamented that he will not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before his inauguration.
Speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump also blamed outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden for allegedly changing the U.S. position on NATO membership for Ukraine.
"A big part of the problem is, Russia - for many, many years, long before Putin - said, 'You could never have NATO involved with Ukraine.' Now, they've said that. That's been, like, written in stone," Trump said.
"And somewhere along the line Biden said, 'No. They should be able to join NATO.' Well, then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, and I could understand their feelings about that."
Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have officially expressed support for Ukraine's eventual membership since the Bucharest Summit of 2008, and the Biden administration continues to support Ukraine's eventual NATO accession, though Ukraine has never been extended an invitation.
Trump's aides and allies generally oppose NATO membership for Ukraine, at least in the foreseeable future, seeing it as an unnecessary provocation toward Moscow. Ukraine's leaders, meanwhile, have aggressively pushed for a NATO invitation, saying it is key to deterring further Russian aggression.
Trump had said on the campaign trail before the Nov. 5 election that he could solve the war in Ukraine before even taking office. While he still says he will quickly solve it, he has largely dropped that line, and he is now due to take office in less than two weeks.
"I hope to have six months. No, I would think, I hope long before six months," Trump said, when asked if he could solve the war within half a year.
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(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
"I know that Putin would like to meet," Trump said. "I don't think it's appropriate that I meet until after the 20th which I hate, because, you know, every day people are being – many, many young people are being killed."
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FINALLY! Someone who cares about the lives of Ukrainians.
If it were up to Biden and Zelensky, this war would end only when the money ran out.
January 20th., can't come soon enough!
GO TRUMP!
Let’s hope the money runs out on January 20. At least *our* part of it. I hope and pray that peace is imminent.
One more year of war in Ukraine and there will literally be no one left to even think about Ukrainian independence or “culture.”
Besides a few Azov Nazis, there will be no young men, and few young women, left to carry on.
Reuters lying again. Nowhere in that article did Trump say he sympathized with Russia. He said he could understand why they would not want Ukraine in NATO. Anything for the media to spin Trump in a negative light.
Thank you Mr. President!
Trump is right on this.
You’re typing your canned response right out of the Soros Troll Handbook, aren’t you? 🙄
>>>>Reuters lying again. Nowhere in that article did Trump say he sympathized with Russia. He said he could understand why they would not want Ukraine in NATO. Anything for the media to spin Trump in a negative light.<<<<
Although President Trump didn’t say the word “sympathize”, he made it clear that he understood Russia’s reaction when NATO and the US changed their tune regarding Ukraine becoming a member of NATO.
I don’t Trump’s statements put him in a bad light.
Where will Zelensky's Beard get the money to shop in Paris?
That ought to cause Zeeper heads to explode.
>>>>Russian Troll .<<<<
I’ve merely posted an article about President Trump’s position on the war in Ukraine.
It’s his statements, not mine.
Is Trump a Russian troll?
"And somewhere along the line Biden said, 'No. They should be able to join NATO.' Well, then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, and I could understand their feelings about that."
Trump is right on this.
But Putin said he invaded Ukraine because they were Nazis and he was out to ‘save’ the Russian minority.
Wrong. That's true of those in charge of our foreign policy under Biden and Obama, especially of Neocon Queen of Death, Victoria Nuland.
The war in Ukraine is 100% a result of our meddling in Ukraine.
Here’s the actual news conference:
Never heard the word “sympathize”
If Vicky has any sense, she should start sweating bullets around now.
| In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Trump says he sympathizes with Russia's opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine, Allegra wrote: |
You’re typing your canned response right out of the Soros Troll Handbook, aren’t you? 🙄 |
That would be too much 'work' for their kind. It's strictly cut and paste!
>>>>That ought to cause Zeeper heads to explode.<<<<
May President Trump end the war in Ukraine and liberate FR from the lunacy of zeepers.
As one zeeper posts repeatedly: “May it be so!”
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