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Ukraine is now Trump’s war
CNN ^ | Mon August 4, 2025 | Nick Paton Walsh

Posted on 08/04/2025 7:19:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Vladimir Putin started it. Joe Biden didn’t stop it. But, no matter his efforts to the contrary, this is the week in which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine becomes US President Donald Trump’s war.

The most powerful office in the world doesn’t always invite choices. Trump is mandated to address the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II because the United States was involved, under his predecessor, as Ukraine’s key ally and sponsor.

Trump could have dropped the war entirely. But instead, he chose to impose the force of his personality, initially through the idea he could end it in 24 hours, or a revised deadline of 100 days. Then he tried to navigate its personalities, cozying up to the Russian president initially, echoing his narratives and then berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly in the Oval Office.

He hit his NATO allies hard, demanding they pay more for Europe’s defense, which they did. And then the hard slog of diplomacy sputtered into gear, ultimately yielding very little.

But it is in the last fortnight that Trump’s decisions – and realizations – have turned this into a problem he now owns. He has seen Putin does not want peace. He has seen Ukraine urgently needs arms, and he tried to help, albeit in a lackluster way. He made the remarkable choice of responding to the usually dismissed nuclear saber-rattling of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, with harder nuclear threats about positioning US nuclear submarines closer to Russia. The US went from pausing military aid to Ukraine to threatening nuclear force against Russia in less than a month.

As this week ends, with Trump’s shortened deadline for a peace deal coming into view, he must make perhaps the most consequential decision of the conflict yet.

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TOPICS: Editorial; European Union; Foreign Affairs; Russia; Ukraine
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1 posted on 08/04/2025 7:19:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let the Mockingbirds begin.... “Trump’s War” on three.


2 posted on 08/04/2025 7:23:14 PM PDT by theyreallthesame
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To: MinorityRepublican

Please send me a link of the last time CNN was right? Or not propaganda.


3 posted on 08/04/2025 7:23:26 PM PDT by WinstonSmith1984 (Make 1984 fiction again.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Things are more complicated than a sound bite.

The media never blamed Biden for the war, even though Obama (and him) gave Putin permission to invade Ukraine.

4 posted on 08/04/2025 7:23:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: MinorityRepublican
Things are more complicated than a sound bite.

The media never blamed Biden for the war, even though Obama (and him) gave Putin permission to invade Ukraine.

5 posted on 08/04/2025 7:23:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: MinorityRepublican
Things are more complicated than a sound bite.

The media never blamed Biden for the war, even though Obama (and him) gave Putin permission to invade Ukraine.

6 posted on 08/04/2025 7:23:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: theyreallthesame

Time for a new narrative shift.


7 posted on 08/04/2025 7:26:10 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: theyreallthesame

“Let the Mockingbirds begin.... “Trump’s War” on three.”

Remember how they made Viet Nam into Nixon’s war. Somehow, the guy who promised “Peace with Honor” became the war criminal and solely responsible for it. The fact that the Democrats, then with a veto proof majority, voted for it with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was forgotten.


8 posted on 08/04/2025 7:28:33 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: MinorityRepublican

A little help from Turkey by adding a bit more troops in Libya, would go a long way.


9 posted on 08/04/2025 7:30:06 PM PDT by MagillaX
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To: MinorityRepublican
Good God, just walk away. Not our circus, not our monkeys.

10 posted on 08/04/2025 7:30:07 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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“Trump is mandated to address the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II because the United States was involved, under his predecessor, as Ukraine’s key ally and sponsor.”

https://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/crap.wav


11 posted on 08/04/2025 7:31:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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This is a real stretch and I doubt it will work on anyone. I think Trump tried his best but its time to just walk away.


12 posted on 08/04/2025 7:31:54 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s true. And regardless of whether Trump is able to end it or not, nothing changes the fact that it was Biden who enabled it and allowed it to start. The past can be ignored but it can’t be changed.


13 posted on 08/04/2025 7:33:26 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: MinorityRepublican

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. says keep your eye on the funny monkey.


14 posted on 08/04/2025 7:37:54 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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nothing changes the fact that it was Biden who enabled it and allowed it to start. The past can be ignored but it can’t be changed.

Biden's mess and Trump is stuck with it.

We all know Trump can't walk away from the war in Ukraine.

15 posted on 08/04/2025 7:38:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Says who and says when did this become President Trump’s war? This conflict has been ongoing since 2014. That would make it odoofus the illegal islamic’s war. Sheesh! This is from Communist News Network so consider the source.


16 posted on 08/04/2025 7:39:08 PM PDT by gildafarrell (e)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And this boys and girls, is how history is rewritten by a corrupt media. Remember Vietnam becoming Nixon’s war??


17 posted on 08/04/2025 7:42:39 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s Putin’s war. Always has been, always will be.

He could end it with a snap of his fingers.


18 posted on 08/04/2025 7:45:07 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump’s “50 days or else....” didn’t help.

Now it’s 10 days. And counting.

Trump is running out of options here.


19 posted on 08/04/2025 7:46:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: SpaceBar

He could end it with a snap of his fingers.

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The same could be said of Zelensky.


20 posted on 08/04/2025 7:46:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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