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President Donald Trump has now fully adopted the false propaganda of Russia on Ukraine, turning against a sovereign democracy which was invaded in favor of the invader.
Trump’s furious attacks on President Volodymyr Zelensky came after opening talks by finishing the war, but excluded the nation whose territory was seized by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump Trump wrongly accused Ukraine of starting the conflict and allowed another Moscow discussion point by saying that the Ukrainian president should hold a suspended election because his country is in a state of war, under a daily attack Forces of Moscow.
After Zelensky retaliated, accusing him To be in a “disinformation space”, Trump increased the fight on Wednesday.
In an article on his Truth social network, Trump said that Zelensky refuses to have elections, is very weak in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing in which it was good was to play the former president Joe Biden “as A violin “. He continued” an election without dictator, Zelensky is better to move quickly or he will not make him a country. In the meantime, we successfully negotiate the end of the war With Russia, which everyone admits that “Trump” and the Trump administration can do.
Trump’s assertion that Zelensky is a dictator plays in one of Moscow’s justifications for the war – that the elected Ukrainian chief was illegitimate and that Russia’s long -term hope to replace him with a chief of Pro-Moscow state.
Trump’s tour against Ukraine is not only a remarkable spectacle because the United States changed aside in the middle of a war. It is an example of Trump’s superb transformation of American foreign policy while America becomes a nation that rejects the international system of alliances and friendships that it built to defend democracy and as its president seeks Housing with authorities like Putin.
Trump had opened the rift on Tuesday after a high-level American-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia by finishing the war.
Zelensky pushed back on Wednesday, accusing Trump of peddling Russian relief and rehabilitating Russia.
“Unfortunately, President Trump – I have great respect for him as a chief of a nation for which we have great respect, the American people who still support us – unfortunately live in this disinformation space,” said Zelensky.
“I would like Trump’s team to be more truthful, all this does not affect the positive way of Ukraine. They leave Putin out of isolation, and I think Putin and Russian are really happy because they are involved in discussions, and yesterday there were signals that they are the victims. It’s something new.
The embrace of the American president of enemy Russia of America is concerned about certain Republican senators, although there has been no real institutional decline against a position on Ukraine which is popular with the base from Maga de Trump.
On Wednesday, one of Trump’s main supporters, Senator Lindsey Graham de Caroline du Sud, contradicted her frequent golf partner, although he had a good political line.
“Regarding the blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I blame Putin above all the others,” wrote Graham on X. But he also said that Biden and former President Barack Obama were “Pathetically weak in Putin manipulation”. Southern Carolina Republican added that Trump was the best hope of “putting an end to this war honorably and precisely. I think he will succeed and he will reach this goal in the Trump way. »»
The comments of the American president will feed new fears among the European allies, which has also been excluded from the Talks American-Russia in Saudi ArabiaMay Trump try to impose a peace agreement in Ukraine which promotes his friend on the Kremlin.
His remarks also seemed to contradict insurance directly by his own secretary of state Marco Rubio after meeting the Russian delegation that any possible peace agreement would be just for all parties.
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed another European nations meeting on Wednesday and other international nations on how to manage Trump, his opening to Putin and his attacks on Ukraine.
It came a day after Trump launched his attempted delegitimate Zelensky, who was on the telephone call which led to the first dismissal of the American president during his first mandate.
“We have a situation where we did not have an elections in Ukraine, where we have a martial law,” Trump told journalists from his seaside resort in Mar-A-Lago. Trump also said that Zelensky’s approval rating was “at 4%” and that “we have a country that was blown to lightning.”
Reliable surveys were difficult in the middle of a war zone which saw thousands of Ukrainians become displaced internally or flee the country. Although recent surveys have shown that Zelensky’s popularity fell considerably from the almost universal approval which he enjoyed at the start of the war, he is far from the depths cited by Trump. Some recent polls have greater than the approval of 50% – which is comparable or better than the popularity of the American president.
The president also warned that for the opinions of Ukraine to his fate is taken into account, she should have an election, saying: “You know, they want a seat at the table, the inhabitants of Ukraine do not Shouldn’t they have his say, as if it was a lot of times that we have had an election?
Apparently sensitive to criticism that he parrot Russian propaganda in his statements on war, Trump insisted: “It is not a thing in Russia; This is something that comes from me.
Ukraine’s last election was to have taken place last April, but Zelensky said that it was not possible for voters to go to the polls in wartime – a position supported by the constitution of the country. Trump’s insistence on voters with their saying in a democracy is ironic given its own refusal to listen to the Verdict of the Americans during the 2020 presidential election which he lost. And it is even more cheeky since Putin remained in power for more than two decades by organizing fictitious elections and imposing a serious domestic repression.
Trump’s last attempt to manage American feeling around Ukraine is similar to many of his previous efforts to slow down the truth in order to create room for his political aspirations. The most important example of him was the election of 2020.
In Mar-A-Lago, he also tried to reinvent the facts around the invasion of Russia three years ago, when Putin’s forces crossed the border of an independent and sovereign democracy and restarted the map of Europe.
“Today, I heard:” Well, we were not invited “, said the president, referring to the complaints of Ukraine that he was not allowed to participate in emerging peace process. “Well, you have been there for three years. You should have finished there after three years. You should never have started it. You could have concluded an agreement, “he said.
Essentially, the president seems to suggest that the Ukrainians should have concluded an agreement with Russia to avoid the invasion – which, in practice, would have involved to submit to a puppet government in Kyiv faithful to Moscow or simply to abandon the fights for Put a win to Putin.
Trump’s response to Saudi talks, who, according to him, could be followed by a meeting in person with Putin by the end of the month, risked fear of what was already a victory for the Russian part. His comments are also likely to strengthen the opposition to its long peace plans among Europeans, who, according to his administration, must be responsible for the application of any future agreement to stop fighting.
Trump seemed vague to what a peace agreement in Ukraine would look like, emphasizing the impressions that his best objective is an agreement of all kinds, which would allow him to claim a personal political victory, but that his criticisms fear to promote future conflicts .
He said on Tuesday that it would be open to the possibility that European troops applied any possible agreement – even if the idea was rejected by Moscow envoys during the talks in Saudi Arabia. He did not comment on the warning of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that such a force would only be viable with a “safety net” in the United States. It followed last week by the US Secretary for Defense Pete Hegseth that no American troop would be involved in peacekeeping in Ukraine. Starmer must be in Washington next week to meet the president and presents himself as a bridge between the United States and Europe.
But Trump’s enthusiasm for Putin is not shared by at least two senior republican senators.
The president of the Senate of Armed Services, Roger Wicker, said on Tuesday that he did not think that the Russian chief could trust. The Mississippi senator told Manu Raju de CNN that “Putin is a war criminal and should be in prison for the rest of his life, if he is not executed”.
And Senator John Kennedy agreed with the acid assessment of his colleague from the Russian leader, but has stopped criticizing Trump’s approach to peace talks. “Vladimir Putin has a black heart. He clearly has the taste of Stalin for blood, “said Louisiana’s senator. Stressing the party’s deference to Trump, however, he also rejected the assertions that the president had offered important concessions to Russia simply by passing it from diplomatic isolation.
“I haven’t seen us take measures to remove Putin’s pressure,” he said.
This story has been updated with additional details.