Ukraine Has Given Up on Trump

Ukraine Has Given Up on Trump(theatlantic.com)

17 points by Bondi_Blue 28 days ago | 11 comments

regnull 28 days ago |

Is anyone surprised? There is this inexplicable affinity between Trump and Putin. It's genuinely baffling, since it serves him very poorly (there is strong support for Ukraine in the US). What do you make of it is up to you, whether it's just his general admiration for dictators or something else. Ukraine is absolutely right to go its own way, with or without American support. Fortunately, the EU appears to stand firm, at least for now.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/majority-americans...

jjgreen 28 days ago | |

Kompromat

tim333 25 days ago | | |

Also money and backing.

pestatije 28 days ago | |

he sees oil...the moment a way emerges to tap russian oil without Putin he will be done

Bondi_Blue 28 days ago |

https://archive.is/85eDj

chistev 28 days ago |

What would Trump do differently if he was not a Russian agent?

cheaprentalyeti 28 days ago | |

I don't know. Maybe he'd attack Russian proxies in the middle east, that have killed large numbers of their citizens during recent protests, like Iran.

jazz9k 28 days ago | | |

Lol. So cause a war with Russia and the US?

Would you say Biden was a XI agent?

general1465 28 days ago | |

Trump is not a Russian agent, he is too stupid for that. Instead of using weapons and monetary support as leverage towards Ukraine to favor Russia, he has voluntarily given it up during 2025 and then US negotiators are surprised that it is hard to force Ukraine to do anything because there is no leverage towards Ukraine.

On the other hand EU has massive leverage on Ukraine because they are effectively keeping them fighting, but Russia won't even engage with EU for whatever reason, instead they are negotiating with USA to get a deal, which can't be enforced because USA lost leverage long time ago.

CamperBob2 28 days ago | |

The question is, what would Trump do differently if he were a Russian agent or asset.

The answer is, not a whole lot.