Donald Trump continues to suck up to the Russian president.

If Ukraine were to suddenly surrender to Russia, everything would be “much better,” at least according to Donald Trump.

During an afternoon press conference Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee urged the Eastern European nation to submit to the foreign power, claiming that any deal, no matter how dismal for Ukraine’s freedom, would have been better than the current state of affairs.

“Ukraine is gone. It’s not Ukraine anymore. You can never replace those cities and towns, and you can never replace the dead people, so many dead people,” Trump said. “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.


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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.

    And this just shows how uninformed Trump is.

    • Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and took Crimea! Ukraine did not attack.
    • Russia then invade in Luhansk and Donbas and illegally annex both regions in 2022

    So what deal is Trump talking about that would have left Ukraine alone? 2014? Nope. 2022? Nope.

    The only deal Putin is willing to accept is total control over the sovereign nation of Ukraine.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Nah, he and the Duma have stated their victory conditions: total control over Ukraine AND the destruction of Ukrainian national identity. He doesn’t want Ukraine thinking of itself as a sovereign nation, only a Russian state.