Let’s go over three points from Trump’s interview with Politico today.
1. I think Ukraine is losing...because Russia is bigger...
But that isn’t who we are. That isn’t what America believes.
We stand up for the small against the strong.
We take what we’ve been given, and we pay it forward. that is our value.
Santa chooses Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer who was bullied and mocked, to lead the sleigh on Christmas Eve. Why? Because we lift up the ones others push down. That is our value.
Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman etc. our super hero figures... He dismisses them as ‘fake,’ as Hollywood illusions. But they embody something real: the American belief that power should protect, not prey on, the vulnerable.
And in the Hump Line, we gave our lives to help China fight an aggressor. That was our value.
In sports, we honor and uphold the principle of teamwork because that is who we are.
So what now? Do we teach our children that when someone bigger comes along, you simply hand over whatever he wants because he’s big and you’re small? Is that the new American lesson? The new American morality?
Oh BTW, Russia was bigger than Afganistan and lost.
Russia was bigger than Japan and lost.
Russia was way bigger than Chechnya and lost the 1st war....
2. Trump on Crimea: "It's surrounded on four sides by ocean. Crimear is massive, but it connects the part of Ukraine that we talk about now, right? Through a small little jetty. It's 4 sides of ocean in the armest part. Its got the best weather, best everything."
Look, I guess the extend of his real estate expertise seems to be that he knows waterfront property is valueable.
Trump knows about as much geography as the PINK 马列跪族, which is to say, not much at all. Crimea isn't an island but a peninsula. It is only connected to mainland Ukraine by the Isthmus of Perekop. Not "4 sides of ocean"! Comparably, Alaska is even worse. There is not even small little "jetty" connection with the united states! By his logic, Alaska should be given to the russians! But international law recognizes Crimea as part of Ukraine in the same way it recognizes Alaska as part of the United States.
3. Trump on Zelensky first met with Putin: When Zelensky first went in and first met Putin, he said: "I want 2 things. I want Crimear back and we're going to be a member of NATO." He didn't say it in a very nice way either.
But how would Trump possibly know the tone, wording, and “manners” of that conversation?
He can only know it from his buddy Putin.
And apparently, in Trump’s worldview, Zelensky was supposed to go in there and beg, the way Trump has been doing. Trump thinks Zelensky should have spoken “nicely” to the man who invaded his country, murdered his citizens, and dictates what Ukraine can or cannot do.
Zelensky telling Putin, the invader, the killer, the thief, what Ukraine demands is now considered “not nice”? If anything, I’m sure Zelensky would say exactly the same thing the next time he sits across from Putin. Because that’s what a leader defending his country is supposed to do! And when has Trump said anything in a nice way about a political opponent who is no longer in power, or even to a journalist who simply asks a question he dislikes?
