US president says Russian counterpart ‘doing what anybody else would do’ as Ukraine faces escalating aerial attacks

Summary

Donald Trump defended Russia’s massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine that followed his administration’s halt to intelligence sharing and military aid to Kyiv, saying Putin was “doing what anybody would do.”

Trump told reporters he finds it “easier” to work with Russia than Ukraine, claiming Putin “wants to end the war.”

While threatening vague sanctions against Russia on social media, Trump’s actual actions have targeted Ukraine, including cutting off military supplies and disabling Ukraine’s access to satellite imagery.

Ukrainian forces have reportedly suffered battlefield setbacks as a direct result of these U.S. policy changes.

  • Lit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    9 hours ago

    So he knew civilians would be killed by his actions and let it happen without any concern.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    7 hours ago

    Where are the shitty racist Ukrainian Brighton Beach Krasnov and Government of Putin supporters? They should volunteer for the Ukrainian infantry and see the results of their fucking vote.

      • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
        6·
        16 hours ago

        It’s been a long standing right wing fantasy of sending the us military to deal with the cartels

          • OnASnowyEvening@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            7 hours ago

            The United States has a history of organizing campaigns to crush terrorist organizations. A month ago, the United States designated six cartels as terrorist organizations, which prompted Mexico to issue a warning about the United States attempting any sort of invasion or incursion. This is also occuring in tandem with the current President of the United States going on about taking Greenland and Panama, and how Canada should be part of the United States, which was also interpreted as a suggestion of a hostile takeover.

            And then there are reports of them having been mulling options since November, talk of it by political candidates in 2023, talk by sitting members of Congress and even legislation introduced in support of it within Congress.

            Not so curiously, these acts have been exclusively done by Republicans, also known as the Right-Wing.

            Of course, if you could show that Democrats were as keen on the idea of invading Mexico, then calling it right-wring would be in error.

          • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            7 hours ago

            When your response to complicated situation that could be solved with non-violence is to send in the military - that’s right wing

              • mira13@lemmy.worldEnglish
                6·
                7 hours ago

                Fix the root issue. Cartels thrive because yanks want drugs. Yanks mostly want drugs because there are issues in their lives they want to run away from and end up addicted to said drugs. Decriminalizing possession and offering detox programs to those addicted would already help reduce the demand by making people willing and able to come forward to get treatment for a drug addiction without fear of being arrested and having their lives ruined further. Then you can attack the source of this desire for drugs by passing laws that actually help people by offering them social safety nets and access to healthcare. Then you can legalize far less addicting and dangerous drugs like cannabis so people who do seek drugs won’t go to black market ones that help cartels thrive.

                There are SOOOOO many little steps that can be taken to reduce the power of cartels, but that would require Yanks to actually care about one another, not just about their own wallet and be willing to go for complex solutions, not just the easy solution of just shoot your problem, so I guess that’s just never happening.

                • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  2·
                  5 hours ago

                  Wonderfully said!

                  Indeed, when we’ve based our society around “get rich or die trying” and a constant state of misery is the motivator to work ever-demanding jobs with less compensation, and people are scared to lose the house over an ambulance ride…

                  The US practically molded the cartels’ success from their own policies. A cartel is simply violent unfettered capitalism, after all. They are destructively “filling a need.”

                  We could reduce or eliminate that need, but the State would rather crush their competition in the misery business.

                  It’s no wonder we saw the serious rise of the cartels especially around the 1970’s and onward, and that’s when the working class started its increasingly rapid descent.

                • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  3 hours ago

                  Cartels have been diversifying their investments for years. They’re involved in way more than drugs at this point.

    • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Lol I like to toot that trump should deal with all these illegal immigrants by offering state hood to their countries but he won’t. Why? Color scale.

    • OnASnowyEvening@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 hours ago

      Well, you’d have to ask, was there a reason they took Alaska? They might have a good reason. Maybe they think there was something wrong with how we bought it from them. They might feel we took advantage of them. I mean, wouldn’t you sympathize with someone that felt taken advantage of? They’ll have a good reason. Russia wouldn’t do anything on a whim. Not just to enrich themselves or establish a beachhead for the rest of the continental Americas; surely not.

      Of course… even if it were a beachhead… Russia might have a good reason, and we like Russia, they’re good friends. Maybe we should join together in some kind of union…

      /s

      PS: If someone was nodding their head along with the above, just know you’re on the wrong side of… well, everything.

  • makyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    1 day ago

    Okay let’s game this out then. If you had a president who is stomping on your civil rights, tearing down the safety net, and crashing your economy - what is it that ‘anyone would do’?