Donald Trump attacks Volodymie Zelensky as a “dictator” who blames the war with Russia, plunges Ukraine into Darwin’s struggle for its existence, landing like a diplomatic landscape bomb. did. But it didn’t come out of nowhere.
Hours after the US president implicitly denounced Kiev for Russian invasion, he left the already heavily worn-out Western Alliance in a catastrophic social media attack on his Ukrainian counterparts.
After much of what he said seemed to reflect the points of the Kremlin story, it included falsehood that Zelensky was 4% (recent polls have reached 57%), and Ukraine’s The president was attributed to Trump being locked up in the “disinformation bubble” in Russia.
In fact, Trump may be the author of his own misconceptions about Ukraine. Or at least you are responsible for constructing yourself by surrounding yourself with prominent figures who seem to reflect the Russian lines.
JD Vance, now Trump’s vice president, by accusing him of threatening their own democracy with restrictions on free speech at the Munich security conference last week before he left European leaders, had already questioned military support for Ukraine.
“How long do you expect this to last? How much do you expect it to cost?” he said he is calling for a “lack of strategic clarity” to the US and Alliance goals.
That was one of Vance’s gentle comments. Last year, he labelled Zelenkie’s “stigma” and visited Washington last year to the Lobby Congress for military aid, and in February 2022, Trump’s former aide Steve – told Bannon, “Ukraine doesn’t care what will happen or what will happen in one way. The other.”
When the tales of Russian atrocities came out, he doubled and told Bannon: The cave of war. ”
Other members of Trump’s inner circle, long-related to the Pro-Russian perspective, include Tarshi Gabbard, newly confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, and former Fox News, one of the president’s most influential supporters. It also includes Tucker Carlson, the host of the film.
Gabbard has been accused of parroting the Kremlin’s hot topic, and her decision at a recent Senate confirmation hearing to condemn Russian invasions of Ukraine, especially as Trump is now doing. I was challenged at.
“This war and suffering could have been easily avoided if Biden’s administrator/NATO simply admitted Russia’s legitimate security concerns,” she wrote.
Meanwhile, Carlson gave a face-to-face interview with Vladimir Putin last year, as the war was raging. Commentators said Russian leaders were broadcasting messages to Trump and other US conservatives. Carlson was ridiculed by a Pravda-esque video segment that praises Russian supermarkets for having a coin-operated shopping trolley that all western supermarkets have had for decades.
In fact, Trump’s new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses said that Ukraine would join NATO when he spoke shortly after Vance, who said the US was no longer “focusing primarily on Europe’s security.” It would never be allowed – simply passing Russia, and important concessions in negotiations to end the war in no return – he was Republican Sen. Roger, chairman of the Senate’s powerful Armed Service Committee He was condemned by Wicker.
“I don’t know who wrote the speech. Tucker Carlson has written it, and Carlson is an idiot,” Wicker said.
But Wicker – and recently, Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence wrote on social media that “the Ukrainian president “didn’t start this war” – a rare voice from Republican opponents. . Trump’s first term Reganites, including Pence, Liz Cheney and Adam Kintzinger, may have advised the US president to maintain the boundaries against expansionism to Europe, but may have been removed.
Anyway, Trump may need little outside urging to feel friendly with Russia, or Putin. Russia’s interference on behalf of Trump during the 2016 victory presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton was well documented by the US intelligence reporting community. And Trump developed hatred of those agencies, such as the FBI and CIA, that pointed out.
In particular, an investigation conducted by special adviser Robert Mueller on alleged conspiracy between the campaign and Russia was resented violently by Trump, who denounced the allegations as a “hoax.”
And in 2019, Trump tried to pressure Zelensky to launch business benefits for Joe Biden and his son Hunter, Ukrainian. It led to his first bullet each.
Furthermore, his new right-wing Elon Musk, who supported Ukraine with Starlink Satellite Services to support Ukraine’s invasion, will drop Ukraine’s ambition to permanently abandon Crimea in Russia and join NATO After suggesting that, it was intertwined with Zelensky in 2022. Recently, Musk has been targeting Zelensky on social media in personal terms. Perhaps he offers the inspiration for the Ukrainian president’s firing Trump as a “slack and successful comedian.”
But the cause of Trump’s latest violation with Zelenskyy is equally immediate and likely lacking external influence, said Charles Kupchan, a fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations.
“Part of that is Trump’s pale skin and his reaction to what he considers as a criticism,” said Kupchan, a member of the White House national security staff for the Obama and Clinton administrations.
“I think he sees himself as going out and trying to help Europe and help Ukraine. Instead, he met a wave of criticism. And I think he’s been dictating Zelensky I see him calling him a man and criticizing him for starting a war as a kind of impulsive and angry response.”
Kupchan believes that, given Trump’s whim, the relationship could suddenly be repaired under pressure of self-interest.
“Trump’s relationship with the leader is hot and cold. He’s having a good meeting with Zelenskyy,” he said. “If you look at Trump’s history, one day he’s a good companion with Macron and then they drop out. I don’t think there’s a lasting nature in Trump’s relationship with the foreign head. That’s very :What did you do for me today?
“After all, Trump wants a deal to end the war. If he wants to get it, he needs a working relationship with Zelensky… Trump has to be in the process of Zelensky and Europe. If we cut some kind of deal with Putin, beyond the head of the allies, then it won’t stick.”
