Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem

New York Times ^ | 5-22-25 | David E. SangerJonathan SwanMaggie Haberman and Michael Schwirtz

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In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with it.

For months, President Trump has been threatening to simply walk away from the frustrating negotiations for a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine.

After a phone call on Monday between Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, that appears to be exactly what the American president is doing. The deeper question now is whether he is also abandoning America’s three-year-long project to support Ukraine, a nascent democracy that he has frequently blamed for being illegally invaded.

Mr. Trump told President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders after his call with Mr. Putin that Russia and Ukraine would have to find a solution to the war themselves, just days after saying that only he and Mr. Putin had the power to broker a deal. And he backed away from his own threats to join a European pressure campaign that would include new sanctions on Russia, according to six officials who were familiar with the discussion. They spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.

Their account sheds light on Mr. Trump’s decision to throw up his hands when it comes to a peace process that he had previously promised to resolve in just 24 hours. And, unless he again reverses course, Monday’s developments left Mr. Putin with exactly what he wanted: not only an end to American pressure, but the creation of a deep fissure inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, between the Americans and their traditional European allies, who say they are going ahead with sanctions anyway.

To many, Mr. Trump’s decision was foretold — first by his fiery, televised encounter with Mr. Zelensky in...

[bimboeruption]

President Trump wants this War Between The Slavs to end now. He's tried his best, working with both sides.

I think he now realizes neither side wants the slaughter to stop.

[Paladin2]

Trump needs to talk W into taming Pooty-Poot.

[kiryandil]

that he had previously promised to resolve in just 24 hours

That was until he ran into the stubborn little troll Zeestinky, who wants to keep the grift going.

[Steve_Seattle]

"In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia . . . "

Translation: Trump is backing off from European leaders' push for WWIII.

[Fungi]

“If you like your health plan, you can keep it.” —Obozo
Has the New York Slime ever addressed that?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Biden told Putin its OK to do a small incursion into Ukraine, the commie media said NOTHING..so yeah, not our damn problem

[Petrosius]

Right, Putin is demanding complete surrender but you think that Zelensky is the problem.

[madprof98]

Exactly right. Let Russia have whatever is left of Zelenskyy’s country. Sadly, he himself has plenty of foreign properties to which he can and will flee.

[Bobbyvotes]

Russia should keep the war going until idiot Zelensky is captured or killed.

[Owen]

All of this was inevitable. When the budget dominates his thoughts, he knows from the numbers that there is not a penny available for anything other than America.

The past, when money could be flung at this international project or that one, is gone. $37T is overwhelming, and with rates rising the interest on that debt is similarly overwhelming.

It’s not easy to accept that wealth of the past is gone, but it is, and Trump, being so financially sharp, knows it.

[RoosterRedux]

Walking away is still part of a negotiation. In fact, it may be the most important part of a negotiation.

[MotorCityBuck]

Excellent.
Walk away.🇺🇸👍

[MinorityRepublican]

Walking away is still part of a negotiation. In fact, it may be the most important part of a negotiation.

Even if Trump wants to do that, he's not going to walk away completely.

[lightman]

It never was our problem.

So cut off Zelenskyy gravy train....yesterday!

[Navy Patriot]

Zelensky can help us help him to run out of Uke Nazis!

[cross_bearer_02]

Trump wants the slaughter to stop but neither side doing the slaughtering wants to stop.

It’s the right move. Not our cows. Not our pasture. Not our bulls**t.

[RoosterRedux]

True dat. Demonstrating a willingness to walk away isn’t actually walking away. Trump will never really walk away if lives can be saved.

[stanne]

That’s his position all along. Ours too

Everyone else is just pretending

[Salman]

Finally!

[StAnDeliver]

Zelensky is waiting for Pootin to die, and for what he thinks the 2026 mid-terms will flip the House to the Democrats.

All his 'expectations' can be rectified. Suddenly.

TrumpII cannot walk away from this just because his transactionality has failed a chemobrain dictator and a faggot wannabe dictator.

Or else everyone in the House GOP is going to be running against this:

"We're watching a holocaust. We're watching something that I've never seen before. [Russia] is blowing up buildings, with children, with women, with professionals, with people, just people, they're blowing up indiscriminately. They're just shooting massive missiles and rockets into these buildings and everybody is dying." "The numbers are far worse than what you're seeing on television. I don't know if they [are] keeping them down. When you see buildings being blown up and then they say one person died? Give me a break. Many people are dying and we're allowing this to happen." "They have to stop it and they have to stop it now, but they don't respect the United States, and the United States is not doing anything about it. This is a holocaust, this is a horrible thing that's happening and you see it on television every night."