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Betrayal [1]

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Date: 2025-02-19

I couldn't believe what I was reading this morning. Trump was blaming the Ukraine war on Ukraine, instead of Russia and Putin. Calling Zelensky a dictator. Then I saw his Truth Social post. It got worse.

It starts with a failed reality TV star calling Zelensky a "moderately successful comedian." StudioCanal thought enough of Zelensky to have him do the voiceover for the Paddington Bear. His TV show, "Servant of the People" was highly successful. It was about a teacher who inadvertently becomes the President of Ukraine. Ironic. When the series ended in 2019, he ran for President and won. But it was a real campaign, not the hate filled garbage of Donald Trump.

Zelensky didn't have to talk the United States into supplying arms and relief to Ukraine. Biden and Congress both knew it was the smartest thing to do. Russia had to be stopped before it marched across Europe like Hitler.

Trump is making up the $350 billion dollars. Congress has passed five bills to provide $175 billion of support to Ukraine, but not all of it has been delivered yet.

"...a war that couldn't be won..." Defeatist drivel. Ukraine is striking inside Russia with more effective weapons everyday.

Then he goes into his third person reference to himself, this time in caps as "TRUMP" with his own quote marks around it. This is a sign of personality disorders.

First, Donald gets the expenses by Europe wrong, because Europe has contributed more in total than we have. Then he says we spent $200 billion more, when we haven't spent the $175 billion allocated. What can you do when a President is an outright liar? The press needs to hold him accountable for his lies this time, in real time.

I assume that Trump when speaking about "equalization," he means the same amount between us and Europe. It's not exactly clear because he has to throw Sleepy Joe Biden into the equation.

Then he has to spout isolationist political nonsense of "We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation." That kind of talk is how we almost let Hitler take over Europe. Now we're listening to a Hitler in our own country ready to give Europe over to another dictator.

Zelensky did not say that aid money was missing. He said it was in arms that were supplied. Munitions. He has no idea how much it really cost. We do. But not Donald Trump. He doesn't know anything about accounting, remember? He doesn't even know generally accepted accounting practices. A GAAP in his knowledge.

"A Dictator without elections." Elections were supposed to take place in 2024, but there's this little thing called the Russian invasion that prevented those from happening.

Another disjointed, pat on the back, third-person declaration of "TRUMP" as the brilliant negotiator.

Keep the "gravy train" going. You're the one who's looking to get a hotel in Moscow built. You're the grifter beyond all comprehension. Ukraine is trying to stay alive. The one trying to line his pockets at every opportunity is you.

Zelensky has not done a "terrible job." He's done the impossible in fending off the onslaught of imperialistic Putin's Russia. Everything you say proves you're a Russian tool.

The death toll and the amount wounded vary greatly in estimates. The bulk have been on the Russian side where estimates are 700,000 dead and wounded. Ukrainian side could have as many as 400,000 dead and wounded. But it's not millions. Any death, of course, is unnecessary.

Having peace talks with Russia and Ukraine not even being represented is unconscionable. All Trump is doing is parroting Russian propaganda.

Why else would Putin announce that, all of a sudden, diplomatic relations are now normalized. Putin said, "The constant expulsion of diplomats from Washington and Moscow does not lead to anything good." Putin is playing Trump for a fool, which we know he is.

No matter how much Trump tries to lay the blame, the responsibility for the war is squarely on Putin's shoulders.

That's why everything Trump has said is a betrayal.

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Hours later, Trump posted this on the official X White House account. This isn't even close to being funny. First he put himself above "Holy Bible" on his made in China Bibles, now this.

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