[or] How Dumb Does this Guy Think We are?
“I get along with Zelenskyy, but, you know, I disagree with what he’s done, very, very severely, disagree. This is a war that should have never happened.”
Trump dismissed the idea of Zelenskyy joining the summit with Putin, declaring the Ukrainian president had been to “a lot of meetings” without managing to halt a war that Russia started.
He also lashed out at Zelenskyy for saying Ukraine’s constitution bans giving up any land.
“I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelenskyy was saying, ‘Well, I have to get constitutional approval.’ I mean, he’s got approval to go into war and kill everybody, but he needs approval to do a land swap? Because there’ll be some land swapping going on.”
Apparently, Donald Trump doesn’t know — or imagines we don’t know — this is Putin’s war of choice against the free nation of Ukraine.
Apparently, Donald Trump doesn’t know — or imagines we don’t know — that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.
Apparently, Donald Trump doesn’t know — or imagines we don’t know — that Russia invaded Ukraine again in 2022.
Apparently, Donald Trump doesn’t know — or imagines we don’t know — that Putin's invasions of Ukraine breached the agreement Russia voluntarily signed in 1994, the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, by which Ukraine voluntarily surrendered it’s arsenal of nuclear weapons — then the third largest in the world — to advance the cause of nuclear disarmament; and Russia, the UK, and the US committed: to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine; to refrain from the threat or use of force against Ukraine’s territorial integrity or political independence; and to not use economic coercion to subordinate Ukraine to their own interest.
Apparently, Donald Trump doesn’t know — or imagines we don’t know — that, in 2019, he, Trump, breached the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances when he attempted to use economic coercion to force Zelenskyy to subordinate Ukraine to his own interest by demanding that Ukraine announce a trumped up investigation into his political rival Joe Biden ... which Zelenskyy refused to do because it was false, and which led to the first impeachment of Trump by the House of Representatives.
And, apparently, Trump doesn't know — or imagines we don't know — how close the settlement he keeps presenting in 2025 is to the Russian plan Paul Manafort brought to Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
So, sorry, but how dumb is this guy? Or how dumb does this guy think we are?
Sources
https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/budapest-memorandums-history-role-conflict/
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/Part/volume-3007-I-52241.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49800181
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/trump-ukraine-peace-plan-mueller-report.html
https://www.csis.org/analysis/experts-react-whats-stake-trump-putin-alaska-meeting
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