Presidet Trump has maintained all along tha had he been president Putin would never have invaded Ukraine and now Russian Presidnt Putin is confirming Trump’s statements. The reason is that Trump never negotiates. He lays out his position and waits for the oppostion to cave in. Look at the number of mayors and govenors are now saying that they will aid in capturing and deporting criminal illegal aliens. And unlike 2017, the voters no longer buy the Democrats constant onslaught against Trump.
Putin also seemingly agreed with Trump that the war in Ukraine might not have ever started if Trump had stayed in office in 2020 and Joe Biden hadn’t come along to royally screw things up.
“We always had a business-like, pragmatic but also trusting relationship with the current U.S. president,” Putin said. “I couldn’t disagree with him that if he had been president, if they hadn’t stolen victory from him in 2020, the crisis that emerged in Ukraine in 2022 could have been avoided.”
Putin’s statement was his bluntest endorsement yet of Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat in the 2020 election.
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Trump also has said repeatedly he wouldn’t have allowed the conflict to start if he had been in office, even though he was president as fighting grew in the east of the country between Kyiv’s forces and separatists aligned with Moscow, ahead of Putin sending in tens of thousands of troops in 2022.
Now that Dementia Joe is no longer in the Oval Office, Putin is worried about crippling sanctions that could be the final nail in the Russian economy:
He also said the U.S. and Russia have many other items on their agenda, including nuclear arms control and economic issues.
“We can have quite a lot of points of contact with the current administration and search for solutions to key issues of today,” Putin said.
He said the sanctions against Russia introduced during Trump’s first term and under Joe Biden’s administration had hurt U.S. interests, undermining the dollar’s role in global financial system. [Nice try, but I’m guessing they hurt Russia a lot more than they hurt us.]
Trump has made no secret about what he will do if things are allowed to continue as they have been—he will punish the Russian Federation:
On Wednesday, Trump threatened to impose stiff tariffs and sanctions on Russia if an agreement isn’t reached to end the fighting in Ukraine.
Peskov said the Kremlin was closely following Trump’s statements and noted he imposed a slew of sanctions in his first term. He said Moscow “remains ready for an equal dialogue, for a mutually respectful dialogue.”
“This dialogue took place between the two presidents during Trump’s first presidency. And we are waiting for signals that we have not received yet,” Peskov said.
We shall see if there is actually reason to be optimistic about a deal to end a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. As ruthless as Putin is, he may just see it’s in his interests to figure it out now, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may be willing to make some concessions. The American taxpayer would certainly like to see it end, seeing as we’ve sent at least $175 billion to support Ukraine—money that could have been used to better our lives here at home.
