Inside the 48 hours that Trump turned on Zelensky
Trump is NOT on Ukraine's side and will give Putin what he wants IMHO
Inside the 48 hours that Trump turned on Zelensky
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/trump-zelensky-rift-ukraine-war/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN
7 minute read
Updated 6:25 AM EST, Thu February 20, 2025
As the long-fraught relationship between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky ripped apart Wednesday, a question that lingered among allies of both men was whether the fight would dash hopes for a US-brokered peace — or, potentially, help it along.
Firing off an angry message on his social media platform, Trump labeled Zelensky a “dictator without elections,” blaming him for strong-arming the United States into spending hundreds of billions of dollars “to go into a War that couldn’t be won.” ..............................
............ Trump is increasingly casting himself in the role of peacemaker – no matter the cost – overlooking the frayed western alliances and the upending of US foreign policy.
“We’re successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia, something all admit that only Trump is going to be able to do,” Trump said Wednesday night, speaking about himself again and again in the third person.
“In the Trump administration, we’re going to be able to do it. I think Putin even admitted that.”