Posted on 03/06/2022 1:33:14 AM PST by Zhang Fei
Former President Donald Trump slammed his former comrade Vladimir Putin for the growing death toll in Ukraine - calling it a 'massive crime against humanity' - and blasted NATO for its lack of action during a GOP donor event Saturday.
Trump spoke to Republican National Committee donors in Louisiana during the Spring Retreat in New Orleans, where he covered a wide variety of topics, including the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
Trump also went after NATO, calling it a 'paper tiger' and said the US cannot just stand by while Ukraine is invaded, according to Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey, who obtained a recording of Trump's remarks.
Trump's comments come as Putin's forces have besieged Ukraine and sparked fears that NATO would be drawn into the fighting. Ukraine President Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelenzky has repeatedly begged NATO to enforce a no-fly zone over his country to help thwart Russian air superiority.
However, the US and its allies have resisted, fearing it could put NATO forces in direct conflict with Russia.
During his presidency, Trump had reportedly said multiple times that he wanted to pull the United States out of NATO, a move that aides scrambled to counter.
Speaking of the situation in Ukraine, Trump told donors that the US should put Chinese flags on America's F-22s and then 'bomb the s***' out of Russia, leading to conflict between the nations while 'we sit back and watch.'
He also shared his thoughts on North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un, saying that 'he's absolutely the leader of that country,' and expressed he was impressed at how Jong Un's advisers were 'sitting at attention' when he talked and 'cowered' when he spoke to them.
Trump said one general stood up so fast when spoken to and joked:' 'I want my people to act like
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And the GOP will walk side-by-side with our leftist ruling elite who take away our freedom. They hate us just a little less than the left.
“There aren’t Putin lovers on FR”
you’re a liar or you haven’t been reading.
And obviously Trump is not a Putin lover. He wants us to help Ukraine.
DISAGREE.
IMPORTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALL HISTORIC KEY EVENTS OF UKRAINE DOMINATION BY FOREIGN POWERS
9TH CENTURY - Founding of Kievan Rus, the FIRST major Eastern Slavonic state. The traditional account founding to the semi-legendary Viking (or Varangian) leader Oleg, ruler of Novgorod, who went on to seize Kiev which, owing to its strategic location on the Dnieper River, became the capital of Kievan Rus.
FOREIGN DOMINATION
1237-40 - Mongols invade the Rus principalities, destroying many cities and ending Kievan Rus’s power. The Tatars, as the Mongol invaders became known, establish the empire of the Golden Horde.
1349-1430 - Poland and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth gradually annex most of what is now western and northern Ukraine.
RUSSIAN DOMINATION
1772-1795 - Most of western Ukraine is absorbed into the Russian Empire through the partitions of Poland.
1918 - Ukraine declares independence. Numerous rival governments vie for control for some or all of Ukraine during ensuing civil war.
1932 - Millions die in a man-made famine during Stalin’s collectivisation campaign, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor.
1939 - Western Ukraine is annexed by the Soviet Union under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
1941 - Ukraine suffers terrible wartime devastation as Nazis occupy the country until 1944.
More than five million Ukrainians die fighting Nazi Germany. Most of Ukraine’s 1.5 million Jews are killed by the Nazis.
1944 - Stalin deports 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Siberia and Central Asia following false accusations of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1991 - Ukraine declares independence following attempted coup in Moscow.
1990s - About 250,000 Crimean Tatars and their descendants return to Crimea following collapse of Soviet Union.
2014 February - Security forces kill at least 77 protesters in Kyiv. President Yanukovych flees to Russia, opposition takes over.
2014 March - Russian forces annex Crimea, prompting biggest East-West showdown since Cold War. US and European Union impose ever-harsher sanctions on Russia.
2014 April - Pro-Russian armed groups seize parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on Russian border. Government launches military operation in response.
2014 May - Leading businessman Petro Poroshenko wins presidential election on pro-Western platform.
2014 July - Pro-Russian forces shoot down Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine conflict zone, killing all 298 people on board.
2019 April-July - Volodymyr Zelensky wins presidential election run-off in a landslide victory over incumbent Petro Poroshenko.
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Thank you.
I have been trying to sign up to volunteer also on top of my donations.
Yet, I was told by one other poster today that I was donating to Soros group.
Since when is Franklin Grahams org a Soros group.
I also tried to start a thread last night with the links to Franklin Grahams samaritans purse org and the direct link to the Ukraine humanitarian site.
It would not load. I supposed that it was considered spam.
No, they hate you more.
Dylan, Idiot Wind:
"You hurt the ones that I love best
And cover up the truth with lies
One day you'll be in the ditch
Flies buzzin' around your eyes
Blood on your saddle"
The Dems don't "hurt the ones that I love best", everyone knows them for what they are.
My heart breaks everyone here who STILL believes the GOP lies, and who are hurt by them, again and again and AGAIN.
It's the GOP that's headed for the ditch, and it can't come too soon.
All that your comment did was convince me that the Ukraine was insane to give up their nukes for Europe’s promises of “protection.”
You would think that Conservative, Inc.’s 31 years of lost wars would give the Bidenistas a strong sense of skepticism.
They are almost too stupid to breathe.
Where is the link to the speech?
Did they say they loved Putin?
Or were they simply giving him the respect due him as a feared adversary?
History shows that underestimating your adversaries is the biggest and most common mistake in war.
So when people (including Trump) give Putin due respect as an adversary - they are doing the smart thing - don’t call them “Putin lovers”.
Yes. I agree. Putin was/is not to be trusted. The Ukrainian people wanted peace. They thought if they did, peace would be achieved.
Some were going far beyond that, even reveling in the deaths of Ukrainians.
I agree about nuclear war and also that President Trump sometimes pulls the trigger before he has a clear target picture.
He should be President right now, so in my mind he is.
Sorry, I didn’t see any of that - they deserve your scorn.
Thank you for the link.
Unfortunately, this is actually prohibited by the USA law.
If US is not involved, it is quite tricky to help foreign country. And with Biden in charge, who knows, we could even get involved fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine.
Anyway, I am too old now, they do not want me anyway! I checked.
Sounds dangerous.
So too is Putin putting his nuclear forces on high alert.
Franklin Graham slipped in the polls when he said that Jesus would take the vaccine.
Quote may have been taken out of context, but a lot of damage was done.
I have to agree with you on this one. This is why I consider myself an independent.
I wastrying to formulate that exact thought but you did it well.
Where is our red line? If he he gets away with threatening nukes, then he will not stop ever, until it’s too late!
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