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.
We both know the answer is yes, probably… so WHY DO YOU KEEP POSING THE SAME QUESTION?
No one answers me because the pro war supporters don’t want to admit the answer. Just like they don’t want to discuss realistic options. They know a never ending war which Ukraine is losing is a bad idea. Yet they support such an approach because they have no other solutions other than a peace deal where Russia keeps some Ukrainian territory. The sheep won’t support such a solution until Zelensky does
You are full of it if you think that's why we don't answer you. Realistic options would be if we didn't have our first and hopefully last pro Putin President. Realistic options would be if Europe decides to go it alone and put boots on the ground. Realistic options are that if he signs a really crappy deal, which is all he'll get from Trump, then Russia will be back at him in just a very few years. Realistic options are to hope somebody gets some balls, because in a few years Russia would take over the beleaguered nation. The country who doesn't have full access to it's mineral wealth anymore, yes that country. That is unless the world stands up to Putin.(or he dies)
Perhaps that should tell you something.. the EU talks a mean game and sends a few Euros, but none of their youth are running to the front..all you guys that want to fight, i am sure that Zelensky will take you for cannon fodder.. i am pretty sure he will take anyone.. only he cant get the thousands upon thousands of fighting age Ukrainian males that are partying in clubs all over Europe to join his cause.. ( i had multiple Ukrainian exchange students and they me send pics of Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, and Vienna clubs)
That’s ridiculous. Trump has been president for what 7 weeks? What were the answers for the last 3 years? Why wasn’t there a peace deal? Why hasn’t anyone from the west advanced a realistic plan to win this war. Your obsession with Trump is cute but fails to address what the Biden admin has done either towards winning this war or bringing peace to Europe….nothing. It also ignores the fact the Biden Admin along with NATO is the reason Putin is occupying eastern Ukraine. Blame Trump and the last seven weeks all you want by Biden had three years with Zelensky and we’re still fighting and losing this war
You must be joking. What the hell does it matter that he's only been president 7 weeks. With the US armed forces and US economy at your command you can do what you want, especially if Europe, Mexico, and Canada are trying not to piss you off. Trump throwing jabs at Nato was very intentional, and part of this 'peace plan.' If you have Putin as your marionette operator instead of an enemy it's quite easy to Manipulate 'peace agreements' that angers most of the western world including Ukraine. Who is going to stop you, certainly not Putin. He wants this. You can do whatever you want in that situation.
