You know, what Trump is doing, pretty obviously even, is trying to extort Ukraine for their natural resources, by threatening to cut support and let Russia do whatever. More even, he is badmouthing their president and parroting Russia's narrative, opening up the possibility for overthrowing the government if it doesn't meet his/Russia's demands. And on top of all that, you can bet your ass he will graciously offer Ukraine to buy US weapons, even if they take the deal. Probably also doesn't mind doing some business over there, using shock doctrine to its fullest to exploit the Ukrainian people.

This is the kind of peace you can expect from Trump.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure the Trump offer of getting 50% of Ukraine's mineral wealth was real. The idea didn't originate from the Trump regime, but it was Ukraine who brought that up first. They're throwing that back into Ukraine's face. It seems like they ambushed Zelenski with this ridiculous deal, which was a brazen insult really, and which was immediately rejected (correctly). It might have been the intention to mock them and show them what the actual bill of the US's Ukraine support would look like, and how Ukraine would never actually be able to pay this debt.

Trump has called for elections, and that's because they want to get rid of Zelenski. And I'm sure that will happen. They're basically overthrowing Zelenski.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gee I wonder who gave him that sort of leverage. Might have been a certain somebody giving them loans on top of loans and sabotaging peace talks for a war they knew was unwinnable.

Libs might deliberately ignore the plain good cop bad cop routine Dems and the gop have going with the world but the rest of us see through it.