A smattering of the egregious tap-dancing from the Trumpers to give Putin the big win they all want him to have.
FOX: But fair to say Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 23, 2025
PETE HEGSETH: Fair to say it's a very complicated situation. pic.twitter.com/GyXUJQc4uJ
FOX: But fair to say Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine?
PETE HEGSETH: Fair to say it’s a very complicated situation.
Witkoff: "The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn't need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians." pic.twitter.com/ZimoQk7wbV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 23, 2025
Trump’s special envoy to hell Steve Witkoff, real estate developer. He says:
“The war didn’t need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn’t necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn’t need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians.
Witkoff can't name a single specific concession Russia will have to make as part of a peace deal pic.twitter.com/jHCVYlSYyc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 23, 2025
Witkoff can’t name a single specific concession Russia will have to make as part of a peace deal
BARTIROMO: Can you acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor here?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 23, 2025
WALTZ: Well, you know what? Who would you rather have going toe to toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi or anyone else — Joe Biden or Donald Trump? He's the deal maker in chief. pic.twitter.com/YYKyLudDvO
That’s Trump national Security Adviser sounding like a bootlicking submissive:
BARTIROMO: Can you acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor here?
WALTZ: Well, you know what? Who would you rather have going toe to toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi or anyone else — Joe Biden or Donald Trump? He’s the deal maker in chief.
Give me a break. Trump says he’s in love with those dictators! Literally!
These people say that Ukraine provoked the war by saying they wanted to join NATO, an idea which has not been seriously contemplated since 2008. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, saying that it was a Russian speaking province that should be part of Russia — nothing about NATO. (Echoes of some earlier unpleasantness with Sudetenland back in the 1930s.) The world watched. Then he invaded in 2022 to take the whole country. We all saw it. They can try to gaslight us into believing that Russia was under some sort of threat that required them to invade but those of us who aren’t brainwashed by the glorious essense of Mar-a-Lago bronzer, know it isn’t true.
Trump is stealing Ukraine natural resources for himself and his billionaire buddies and allowing Putin to dissolve Ukraine as a sovereign country (which is what will happen.) Putin has to do nothing but give Trump a big, wet, sloppy kiss and call him a genius on television.
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