President-elect Donald Trump has said that he “vehemently” disagrees with the US supporting long-range missile strikes inside Russian territory, which President Biden authorized last month.
“I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that?” Trump said in an interview with Time Magazine for an issue that named him Person of the Year.
“We’re just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done,” Trump added.
Biden took the step to support Ukrainian strikes on Russia using US ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles even after Moscow made clear it would risk a nuclear escalation.
Russia responded to Ukraine’s initial ATACMS and Storm Shadow strikes by firing a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile known as the Oreshnik. Ukrainian forces fired more ATACMS into Russia this week, and the Russian Defense Ministry has vowed there will be another response.
Trump campaigned on ending the proxy war in Ukraine but has not articulated how exactly he plans to do that. He was asked in the Time interview if he would “abandon” Ukraine and responded, “I want to reach an agreement, and the only way you’re going to reach an agreement is not to abandon. You understand what that means, right?”
The president-elect stressed in the interview that he was concerned with the death toll in the conflict, saying it was much higher than what’s been reported. He said the “numbers of dead young soldiers lying on fields all over the place are staggering. It’s crazy what’s taking place.”
Anyone who believes President Biden is behind the escalation needs to put down the gummies. The Globalist American Empire is waging a world-wide war for hegemony and Trump is the only person who might be able to hinder that goal from happening. War is very profitable… for some people. Everyones suffers from money is being taken out of the civilian economy and spent on untrackable expenses of war (secrecy, you know).
Trump is OK without wars as long as everyone in the world obeys him and America. He is already talking about his family's dynasty. The Roman (American) empire has a new house of Caesars.
Trump is OK without wars as long as everyone in the world obeys him and America.
Bingo! The "peace through strength" talk is exactly that. And that's what he means whenever he talks about "America first". You never hear "Americans first".
Excellent distinction you pointed out !
NO president has control over the cloud, the "deep state". NONE.
The coup that killed President Kennedy put the kabosh on there being any renegade president who dares to do the right things. It is why the U.S. performs clusterf*ck throughout the world, always seeking to be The One among nations, rather than live in peace.
Of course Biden is behind it. He approved it. Why else does he pardon his son for things going back to 2014? Isn't 2014 when all of these catastrophes in Ukraine began cascading? Obviously he does not want light shone on his own part as Obama's VP. VPs do lots of dirty work for their bosses, it distracts the attention. (Think of Nixon & Eisenhower, Bay of Pigs planning, etc)
Think of Eisenhower and the coup against the duly elected leader of Iran in 1953.
The brand new CIA attempted a coup in Syria in 1947. Though unsuccessful, the undaunted future Murder Incorporated went back to the drawing board.
Voila', success in Iran. The template for future successful ventures in f*cking up other countries was made.
The downfall of Syria was many years in the making.
"The horror" of all this is that the "outlaw" Trump has the leg up on sanity and reason in this, while the "legitimate, law-abiding Biden" has proven his own cowardice and intent on making things worse.
At least Trump will be talking to Putin, and as long as they are going to be talking, at least we'll all sleep a little easier.
Ever yet though we are all still hostage to the 10 nuclear powers.
Oh, the 10th? That's Israel, the open secret "everybody know, but nobody tell."
Trump is playing both sides…!
Probably though I would wish it were otherwise. Maybe we will be surprised!
He always has. Yesterday I compared him to cats playing with mice until they either eat them or leave them lying around dead since they get enough food from humans.
Yes, he is. I guess he thinks we have forgotten that he withdrew the U.S. from the INF treaty, as well as the Open Skies agreement. He also sanctioned Russia, provided Ukraine with weapons.
Perhaps he "vehemently" regrets his decisions now.
Could be he was throwing red meat to the Justice Dept. bloodhounds, desperate to stay ahead of the fake impeachers and fake prosectors …?? His negotiating "plan" could be: remove launchers in Poland & Roumania, "Austria status" for Ukraine, and lift sanctions and unfreeze Russian reserve assets, etc.; while Russia would agree to stay east of the Dniepro R., except for Crimea.
Could be he was throwing red meat to the Justice Dept. bloodhounds, desperate to stay ahead of the fake impeachers and fake prosectors .
I could buy into that if it wasn't for the fact that he kept saying shit after he was no longer president about how tough he was on Russia.
Language is purely instrumental for all polscum, it's a question of ideology. Trump has a petit bourgeois approach to his life. He doesn't subscibe to NeoConNazism, megalo-Imperialism, the reigning orthodoxy. Given any autonomous agency he would have made peace with N. Korea & Russia, and dismantled NATO.
Our Connective National Interest has long since been decommissioned.
If…and it's a big IF…the Russians, as reported by Tass, succeeded in shooting down this latest volley by Ukraine of US missiles, reducing them to falling shrapnel that injured some Russian troops: here is the speculative takeaway. The ATACMS et al. simili are no more effective than cherry bombs or M-80s. Likely obsolete or obsolescent technology. Furthermore, Russia claims that her new, already-tested-in-combat hypersonic ballistic missile–with its multi-targeting capability–can inflict horrendous damage on Ukraine with convential warheads. It's all in the targeting. And, of course, in the reporting.
We know only what we read in whatever media we choose. None of them is without agendae. Which makes all of this the biggest IF out there.
But… The Eastern media agenda might be single page… However, the Western media agenda is a book…!
oh no russia got hit by a few missiles!
Womp womp!
“I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that?” Trump said in an interview with Time Magazine for an issue that named him Person of the Year.
There is always a quote.
'The Fake News Media refuses to report that I was the one who very early and strongly gave the anti-tank busters (Javelins) to Ukraine, while Obama/Biden was giving blankets, to great and open complaints.
Then Biden came in, and canceled the remaining military equipment that was packed, loaded, and ready to be shipped. Now the Fake News Media is trying to say that Trump gave Ukraine nothing and it was Biden who is their great friend and gave them weaponry. The dishonesty is so unbelievable. All I can do is report it!"
Trump needs to get on the phone with Putin and clearly explain how his foreign policy will differ from Biden's.
Putin is hardly clueless when it comes to the difference between what American presidents say and what they do. Trump just can't keep from saying whatever pops into his head, and what comes out is hardly ever meaningful, either inherently so, or eventually so.
Trump was very clear about his anti-War foreign policy at every rally he held.
And yet he’s surrounded himself with warmongers. Remember during his first term? He handed over all military matters to “his excellent generals”. I suspect that was in response to an actual or veiled threat against his life or the lives of his family. The Pentagon and Deep State probably don’t care if Musk and friends slash the government by 1/3rd as long as Trump doesn’t take a penny from the Pentagon or Israel. I hope I’m proven wrong.
Hardly. Most of the time he spent spewing hate. The only time he talked foreign policy is when he made the ridiculous assertions that there would be no wars if he were in office.
And yet he has surrounded himself with warmongers. He now wants to create a DMZ between Ukraine and Russia, manned with NATO troops. He’s listening to the wrong advisors.
a voice of reason in an age of quiet enlightenment…
Day 1 is nigh knumbskulls https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2a12f45612e7465ba3dc115b73d9ef883e11c33fbd2589b2b45b82092e6024ad.jpg .
The geostrategic and political reverberations if Zelensky and his acolytes were taken out execution-style or via a missile detonation, particularly before Donald Trump assumes the presidency.
Observers might suspect a link between Russia's increased attacks on Ukraine's electrical infrastructure and Russian prisoner-of-war being executed by Zelensky's regime.
What individuals within Ukrainian society would organize a new government if Zelensky and his government were killed? With or without US 'funding?'
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https://x.com/i/status/1867944512636760087
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/12/07/trump-zelensky-meet-in-paris-as-macron-hosts-three-way-talks_6735534_4.html
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/07/emmanuel-macron-welcomes-trump-and-zelenskyy-for-a-meeting-ahead-of-notre-dames-reopening
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/12/ukraine-victory-plan-europe-russia-security/?tpcc=world_brief
Have you noticed Trump has toned down on the "Mean Tweets"? :
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113652503204625134
CNN's Van Jones finally surrenders: https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1868038551448977915
Trump here and Trump there. Peacemaker commiserating with all the dead in Ukraine. Bully-boy threatening Hamas for not releasing the hostages, threatening Iran with air-strikes, and eager to "finish the job." This schizophrenic moron will not serve us well.
You had your hopes on Kamala and you're calling Trump a moron?
How did you get this idea???
Well if Trump lost we’d have President Harris. Do you want that?
https://media1.giphy.com/media/SN1wgKnJIFBZIsOpLJ/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/12/about-power-projection.html#disqus_thread
"A single frigate of Gorshkov-class with a single pr. 885 Yasen-class SSGN can, in a single salvo of 4 3M22Zircon each destroy two US Navy Carrier Battle Groups–none of those CBGs will know what hit them. Moreover, what is also missing from this outdated POV is the fact of a term which Vladimir Putin and Russian military professionals saying about Oreshnik–read attentively–it is a HIGH PRECISION weapon. That means that Oreshnik's hypersonic maneuvering blocks with a range of 5,500 kilometers can hit any type of target on land or in the sea. NATO navies, including the US Navy's CBG, can huff and puff, can simulate Alfa strikes but all this is for naught because since roughly 2018 there has been a NATO "lake" in Med with or without Russian bases there because all of those navies are nothing more than fat prestigious defenseless targets. What matters most, those who are not completely brainwashed in NATO navies know this. And this is why any attempt to sabotage Russian commercial activity supported by Russian Armed Forces can start with the demonstration of sinking some Euro-chihuahua ship, say French or Spanish FFG as a warning."