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Adam Kinzinger: Ukraine is Winning. So Why is Donald Trump Trying to Help Russia?
Adam Kinzinger - Ukraine is Winning. So Why is Donald Trump Trying to Help Russia?
America Is quickly becoming the people we read about, and hated, in high school history.
Adam Kinzinger
Apr 18, 2025
For over three years, Ukraine has defied every expectation, every prediction of collapse, and every assumption of weakness. The same experts who once said Kyiv would fall in 72 hours are now stunned by a Ukrainian military that has not only survived but is winning — without a navy, it has turned the Black Sea into a graveyard for Russia’s so-called fleet. Ukrainian ingenuity, courage, and resilience have done what few thought possible: they've held the line against a nuclear-armed aggressor. Russia, with all its manpower and machinery, is being bled dry.
This isn’t just a story of survival. It’s a story of victory in progress. Ukrainian forces have destroyed half of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using homemade naval drones and precision strikes. They’ve struck targets in Crimea with pinpoint accuracy and pushed Russia back on multiple fronts. This is a country fighting alone for freedom, and for democracy, against an authoritarian empire bent on conquest. And yet, somehow, Donald Trump and his allies are doing everything they can to rescue Vladimir Putin from the consequences of his failing war.
Let’s be clear: this war would end tomorrow if Russia just… you know…stopped firing. That’s not speculation — it’s fact. Ukraine didn’t invade anyone. It’s not trying to conquer Russian territory. The only reason this war continues is because Vladimir Putin insists on continuing it. A cease-fire doesn’t require “negotiations.” It requires one thing: Russia to stop its aggression.
But instead of holding Russia accountable, Trump has become Putin’s loudest advocate in the United States. He refuses to even say that Russia is the aggressor. He can't utter a sentence condemning the illegal invasion of a sovereign democracy. Why? Because in Trump’s world, standing up to a dictator doesn’t earn you applause — submission does. This isn’t foreign policy; it’s capitulation wrapped in cowardice.
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America Is quickly becoming the people we read about, and hated, in high school history.
Adam Kinzinger
Apr 18, 2025
For over three years, Ukraine has defied every expectation, every prediction of collapse, and every assumption of weakness. The same experts who once said Kyiv would fall in 72 hours are now stunned by a Ukrainian military that has not only survived but is winning — without a navy, it has turned the Black Sea into a graveyard for Russia’s so-called fleet. Ukrainian ingenuity, courage, and resilience have done what few thought possible: they've held the line against a nuclear-armed aggressor. Russia, with all its manpower and machinery, is being bled dry.
This isn’t just a story of survival. It’s a story of victory in progress. Ukrainian forces have destroyed half of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using homemade naval drones and precision strikes. They’ve struck targets in Crimea with pinpoint accuracy and pushed Russia back on multiple fronts. This is a country fighting alone for freedom, and for democracy, against an authoritarian empire bent on conquest. And yet, somehow, Donald Trump and his allies are doing everything they can to rescue Vladimir Putin from the consequences of his failing war.
Let’s be clear: this war would end tomorrow if Russia just… you know…stopped firing. That’s not speculation — it’s fact. Ukraine didn’t invade anyone. It’s not trying to conquer Russian territory. The only reason this war continues is because Vladimir Putin insists on continuing it. A cease-fire doesn’t require “negotiations.” It requires one thing: Russia to stop its aggression.
But instead of holding Russia accountable, Trump has become Putin’s loudest advocate in the United States. He refuses to even say that Russia is the aggressor. He can't utter a sentence condemning the illegal invasion of a sovereign democracy. Why? Because in Trump’s world, standing up to a dictator doesn’t earn you applause — submission does. This isn’t foreign policy; it’s capitulation wrapped in cowardice.
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