The Truth About Ukraine
August 22, 2025
Trump has blasted President Biden for not arming Ukraine enough.
After Biden’s efforts to do so were long blocked by Congressional Republicans. And after Trump blamed the war on Ukraine. Now he says he’ll send weapons — if Europeans pay us for them.
And don’t forget Trump’s 2019 phone call with President Zelensky, demanding a bribe — in the form of smearing Biden — for Trump’s releasing weapons — which got him impeached. Zelensky wouldn’t play along. That’s why Trump hates him, surfacing in that disgraceful February White House meeting.
But Trump hates Biden more. A hatred so consuming he vents it with manic constancy. Why? Simple. Biden beat him in 2020. Rankling even more than President Obama’s jokes about Trump at that 2011 dinner. Not forgotten either — hence Trump’s now falsely branding Obama a traitor who attempted a coup. (Something Trump himself did.)
Meantime his psychotic refusal to accept losing in 2020 spawned the giant “stolen election” lie. Any fool could see that. Yet it has infected our whole body politic with a corrosive sickness.
But back to Ukraine. Trump, seeming to realize Putin was playing him, finally set a 50-day deadline for Russia to stop the war or face “very serious consequences.” Then soon moved it up to 10 days. Then forgot about it. Having been played by Putin some more.
Trump was talking “ceasefire.” Why would Putin agree to that? He’s winning. He laughs off sanctions. Only force will stop him.
So Trump has switched to talking “peace deal.” Russia says that must address the conflict’s “root causes” — which, cutting through the crap, amount to Ukraine’s independence. Unacceptable to Russia, that’s the true root cause. Meantime a “peace deal” would presumably lock in Russia’s territorial gains, rewarding its criminality. A very bad deal, which Ukraine would never accept absent security guarantees — to prevent Russia from just invading again later. NATO membership would be such a security guarantee, but that was idiotically ruled out by Trump the great deal-maker before any negotiations. So Europeans are instead suggesting peace-keeping forces in Ukraine. Something Russia categorically rejects. Square one.
Americans chose this president. History will not be forgiving.