Why Trump Now Says ‘Russia Will Have To Give Up All of Ukraine.’
On May 4th, U.S. President Trump — about whom I had headlined on 4 December 2024, “Reuters reports Trump is set to continue Biden’s policies on Ukraine.” — told NBC News, that “Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine. Because that’s what they want.”
Not only is that the exact opposite of what Russia is, in fact, deeply committed to — they’ve made clear, numerous times, that the five regions of the former Ukraine where voters in plebiscites have voted overwhelmingly to be Russians instead of Ukrainians will remain henceforth as being parts of Russia, and where they are being, and will forever be, provided with Russian Social Security and military protection, and all of the other rights of Russian citizens. But, ALSO, if Russia would reneg on those promises, Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, would be overthrown by the Russian people, because his doing that would violate all of his repeated national-security commitments to the Russian people — such as that under NO circumstances would the nation — Ukraine — that has by far the nearest of all borders to The Kremlin (Russia’s Government), which is Ukraine, ever be allowed to join America’s anti-Russian military alliance, NATO.
For example, RT News, which is their equivalent to Britain’s BBC or America’s PBS, closed an article on May 13th by saying “Putin has maintained that Ukraine must abandon its plans to jo
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