Subj : Trump says he's 'not happ
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed May 28 2025 09:19 am

> I'm not happy with war in general. What Putin is doing is 'not good,'
> but I'm not sure I trust 2 either. War profiteering is always a
> danger... And all the money that went to Ukraine instead of helping
> out here at home?

I think it would have been better to send materials -- so you have a good
idea what they are used for -- than just money, which is not always all
accounted for.

> I've read a little more into the backstory, and turns out one of
> the 'deals' was about NATO not moving any closer to Putin, and
> then a few inches here, a few there... From HIS point of view,
> he is defending his territory...

Russia has sort of always been like that.  For whatever reason, they are
paranoid about their neighbors and want a lot of "buffer states" between
them and the rest of Europe (and probably Asia, too).

That goes back at least as far as Napoleon's invasion, and possibly longer.
Stalin was super paranoid, much like Putin seems to be now.


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