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Trump takes victim-blaming Ukraine to the next level
President Donald Trump on Tuesday returned to his tactic of blaming Ukraine
for Russia’s unjustifiable invasion of the nation. Trump’s latest edition of
his blame game comes as his recent attempts to negotiate an end to the war have
foundered.
“It’s not a war that should have been started. You don’t do that—you don’t
take on a nation that’s 10 times your size,” Trump said during an appearance on
Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” widely understood to be his favorite show on the
right-wing network.
Russia chose to violate Ukraine’s sovereignty in 2022, in a repeat of their
seizure of Crimea in 2014. Ukraine responded to the invasion by defending their
nation, a response that virtually all nations in the world—including the United
States—would pursue in a similar situation.
Since the conflict began, Ukraine estimates that more than 46,000 of their
soldiers have been killed, as of February. A United Nations report published in
December 2024 estimated that more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians have been
killed in the conflict as well.
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Trump’s rhetoric, beyond insulting Ukraine’s resistance, also denigrates the
American war of independence, which saw our small nation taking on what at the
time was a global superpower with a large military.
Trump also told Fox that he had given “my assurance” that no Americans would
be deployed to defend Ukraine against further Russian aggression if a peace
deal is ever agreed upon.
The Fox News appearance comes after a pair of high-level foreign policy
meetings between Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (along with a host of European leaders backing
Zelenskyy). Trump failed to secure an agreement to end the war despite
repeatedly boasting as he campaigned for the presidency that he would solve the
issue on his first day in office.
Instead the world has watched as Trump caved to Putin’s demands and pushed
Zelenskyy to give in to continued Russian brutality.
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Trump even told the Fox News hosts that his widely criticized phone call with
Putin that occurred while he spoke to European leaders happened in private
because he feared it would be “disrespectful to President Putin.”
In the aftermath of his diplomatic failures, Trump has once again emerged as a
shill for Putin. He has time and again lied about the underlying causes of the
war, blaming Ukraine when Russia is at fault.
Trump’s rhetoric bolsters the case of Putin, whom a bipartisan Senate
investigation determined was working on Trump’s behalf to intervene in the 2016
presidential election. Trump continues to repay his major political ally.
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