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Trump Says Ukraine 'Should Have Never
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/18/2025 11:59:08 PM

At a news conference Tuesday, President Donald Trump blamed Kyiv for the Russia-Ukraine war. Speaking on his peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump told reporters that Ukraine did not need a seat at the negotiating table because it "should've ended [the war] in three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal." The Context February 24 will mark three years since Russia invaded Ukraine and launched the war that has become Europe's deadliest since World War II, with staggering losses of life, tanks and equipment on both sides.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: heartsurgeon 2/19/2025 12:26:09 AM (No. 1899087)
The headline uses quote marks around a sentence that Pres. Trump never said. I find that curious. The article contains the actual quote.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: judy 2/19/2025 12:47:07 AM (No. 1899089)
I heard Trump he didn’t say this Newsweak should be sued
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 2/19/2025 12:54:17 AM (No. 1899094)
Russia started the war by invading Ukraine. That much is CLEAR FACT. They first invaded the Crimea in 2014, then their proxies moved in from the SE for years, and finally Russian tanks crossed the border and Russian paratroops landed near Kiev. Trump is completely wrong in that statement. I am a Trump supporter, but he is mostly wrong about the whole Ukraine war.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: kono 2/19/2025 1:34:37 AM (No. 1899104)
Not giving Newsweek a click to read this.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: seamusm 2/19/2025 2:13:53 AM (No. 1899107)
Russia did, in fact, invade Ukraine first. But it was in direct response to Biden promoting Ukraine's admission into NATO. The invasion was, at that point, a foregone conclusion given Putin's old school position that all of Ukraine was still a piece of the former USSR. So from that point of view, Biden started the war.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 2/19/2025 5:21:30 AM (No. 1899128)
If #3 reaeds the article he will find that President Trump did not say that. And #5 is correct.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Sully 2/19/2025 5:37:17 AM (No. 1899136)
First of all Ukraine doesn't need protection from nato. They need protection from the US. Without the US NATO is worth absolutely zero. Second zelinski is complicit in the railroading impeachment of the current President of the United States for a "perfect phone call." Is he really shocked that he's no longer on the Presidents speed dual? He is a corruptocrat who joined the political association of his eventual protector.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: 5 handicap 2/19/2025 6:15:54 AM (No. 1899161)
This article is a bundle of BS, is it not? It states: Trump said the Ukraine should never have started the war and then says Russia invaded the Ukraine...Cannot be both, then again, this is "Newsweek" and lefties can say whtever the hell they want. Thats where they lost me...
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Reply 9 - Posted by: chumley 2/19/2025 6:21:01 AM (No. 1899164)
Maybe Russia was a little concerned about the US financed bio weapons labs right next door in Ukraine. If someone were to build something like that in Mexico or Canada, would we sit by and watch the means of our destruction being manufactured? I doubt it. It is a horrible war. I've seen videos that are beyond disturbing. At the same time, Ukraine is far from blameless in this. They were/are one of the most corrupt nations in the world and that hasn't changed.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: czechlist 2/19/2025 8:17:22 AM (No. 1899245)
The history of that are of Eastern Europe is extremely complicated. Bottom line is this conflict is basically a Civil War- a "color war" stirred up by the CIA. The CIA is going to "spread democracy" no mattter now many have to die in the process
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Strike3 2/19/2025 8:40:44 AM (No. 1899266)
It's not a simple answer but for a good comparison, Communist soldiers invaded a little piece of jungle called Vietnam. We flooded Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with CIA people so we could claim that we were not at war. Within a year or two we were definitely at war and losing good military people who were not trained in jungle warfare. It took us ten years to learn our lesson. It was a huge mess and we got ourselves into it, losing over 50,000 people before our surrender. Trump's main goal is to stop the killing, which will go on for years if we keep shoveling money into Ukraine, a country that is just as corrupt as Russia. NATO was Putin's trigger like "the spread of Communism" was ours.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JackBurton 2/19/2025 8:50:06 AM (No. 1899275)
To correct poster #11... we did win the war in Viet Nam. The commies were gone when we left. We lost the peace. After we were gone, there was an incursion from North Viet Nam that was successfully repelled by the ARVN. But it was noted that there was NO US support for Viet Nam. That encouraged the north and unmanned the South. Viet Nam was lost in the subsequent invasion. That we lost the war is a Lefty talking point that is a re-write of history.. It's everywhere and appears to be the real victory for the left.
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