I don't thinks it's that he wants to be friends as much as it is that President Trump is trying to avoid WWIII or a massive worldwide conflict.
I see where you're coming from on the on the side of the fence that thinks Ukrain's problems should be our problems and the truth is is that is not in Amrican interests to be involved there. It just isn't no mtter how you want to try to slice it.
Ukraine doesn't do squat for American interests. We owe them nothing despite the tens of billions the crooks in DC have thrown at that little dictator crook who just keeps demanding more, more and more.
Well, I can pull up quotes if ya like of “the Don”himself praising Putin, explaining that Putin is a buddy of his and that Trump only needs to talk with him to end the war in Ukraine. That’s worked out well, eh? Since what January ‘25?
“Ukraine doesn’t do squat for American interests.”
Really? How about all the data we (here in the U.S.) have collected on the new battlefield, the future that our own military will face one day, aka drone warfare that the Ukrainians have used against and proven a valid adversary against their Russian communist invaders. And how about all these American defense companies here that are making bank on the current war? Not far from where I live, in SW Missouri, there’s a company in West Plains Missouri, who makes parts for actual battlefield equipment being used by the Ukrainians in the current war against the Russians. That’s just one…just one, of the many companies here who provide Americans jobs…jobs…hmmm, Ukraine doesn’t do squat for American interests? Tell that to the men and women here who work for those companies.
And, you can thank those Ukrainians for delaying the mobilization, buildup for war that Russia and China have already employed, begun in their preparations to attack us here.
You, as so many conservative Republican faithful, want to believe we have nothing to fear from Russia, and listen to Trump all the time about how we need to go it alone, along with quoting George Washington about America not having alliances, suddenly isolating ourselves from our Allies of almost 100 years, ie, our trade partners of Europe (NATO). Hint: without those nations in Europe, those nations that know what it’s like to be ruled by Communists? You and I would not have the current standard of living we have enjoyed for over a century.
And go ahead and point the finger at corruption of Ukraine… the Ukraine that was controlled as a puppet government of the Kremlin, long before Zelensky came along. Honestly, our own government is more corrupt than Ukraine ever was. Courtesy Republicans just as much as Democrats.
Like it or not, the Republican Party, conservative media personalities, like Tucker Carlson for one, and the MAGA movement has been infiltrated by the same enemy, Communists, that took over the Democrats in the early 80’s.
I heard conservative author and activist Trevor Louden say this on a recent podcast and I have to agree.
“I've been thinking a little bit recently about George Washington's farewell address and because there's a big argument on the Right, of course, that we should not intervene, we should not have alliances, we should go it alone, we shouldn't get involved in foreign entanglements, as though we're living in 1776. And George Washington in his farewell address said something along the lines of, in the times of emergency, we should make alliances and be very glad of it. Well, I would posit that since 1917, we've been living in a century long emergency, and that alliances are very necessary.
We're not living in 1776, where it was just one prince fighting another prince over territory or religion. We're living in a time where the ideologies, the Marxist, Leninism, Eurasianism, fascism are on the march. And we must, every free country, must be working with every other free country to combat this.
So this is the time for alliances. This is not the time for non-intervention.
This is not the time for isolationism.
This is the time for a vigorous, aggressive foreign policy and military policy against our enemies. This is our duty to end the evil empire in our time. And we have the opportunity to do this.“