What that man has done for his country is worth millions. Trump blows millions golfing every week and hasn’t actually done much to “help” the country. So who cares?
What leads you, based on his character or actions to believe that he would pocket money?
Mainly based on the history of corruption of leaders in that part of the world. I would be very surprised if he isn’t lining his pockets
You know this accusation is coming from Trump. I guarantee it.
The fact his defense minister was able to steal $46M showed me there’s not a lot of accountability with those funds. Like I said above, government officials getting rich off “misallocated” funds is common fare in the old Soviet states. Which is why I made my prediction. You want to join Team Aston and disagree with me?
Can you at least agree that both Putin and Donald Trump have done similar things by shifting public funds towards themselves? (I'm not necessarily saying outright swiping money, but pushing government spending towards business ventures they have a part in, etc...)
Trump was too direct in the shifting of money toward ventures benefiting him. The tried and true method is to direct large sums of public funds to your friends and supporters who in turn give that money back to your campaign war chest or foundations. The corruption and excessive spending in DC is hard to comprehend. Our political leaders aren’t becoming multi millionaires from their salaries.
There is just as many con men in Trumps regime. Don't go throwing bricks in a glass house. At least they are fighting for something worth holding up as an ideal. I'll bet Trump's regime has just as much graft or more, than Zelensky's administration. Bannon is immediate proof of that.
I’ve said a thousand times, our politicians aren’t becoming millionaires off their salaries. Corruption is rampant in the US political system.
So why are you expecting better out of Ukraine? Can't hold up an ideal that we don't meet and not feel a bit hypocritical.
how did Trump get billions from the war? Biden was the one who sent the money to them.
I mean, do you want an honesty answer? It’s plausible that Trump and his family would stand to gain quite a bit from both making Ukraine a weaker adversary for Putin as well as opening trade back up with Russia, and helping Putin castrate NATO.
Purely stopping the war is not a solution. You realize this war has been fought since 2014. If you include the screwing with Ukraine and paying off of politicians like Viktor Yanukovych It was long before that. Interestingly enough, do you know who helped run Viktor Yanukovych's 2010 campaign for Ukrainian president and then help rebrand his party 2014 before it was kicked out of power because it killed 108.....Paul Manafort.
A lot of people don't have a clue about past endeavors of people who have been in Trumps inner circle. They'd just excuse it though. They've excused so much, why would things like that put them off of Trump?
Why I said winning or stopping this war . After three’s years and almost 1 million causalities, shouldn’t we have a plan at the minimum ?
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It was a trap. You notice that he sends the VP after Zelensky intentionally. That was all choreographed. Zelensky reacted to the affront just as Trump wanted him to. This way Trump saves face, lays the blame on Zelensky, and doesn't give Ukraine any guarantees of protection that Putin wouldn't tolerate. Trump blew up a deal for precious metals that didn't meet up to an indefinite supply of metals for free. That was the only possibility that would have stopped Trump from blowing this up intentionally. I somehow knew when Trump took back his claim that Zelensky was a dictator, that this was dangerous ground. Trump never takes back anything.
I just don’t see Europe putting boots on the ground and risking a large scale war on the continent. Eastern Ukraine was lost the minute the west sat their hands while Putin invaded. Russia is now defending fortified positions there. Ukraine continues to lose ground and troops. I’ll ask again….is Zelensky refusing a peace deal because he believes Europe will eventually send troops and turn the tide ? I see no other reason.
