Trump takes swipe at Zelensky’s leadership

“Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” US President Donald Trump says in a post on Truth Social.

Labelling Zelensky “a dictator”, Trump writes: “I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”

Trump says in the meantime, the US is “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia”.

For context: Zelensky’s presidential term expired last May, however Ukraine has been under martial law since the Russian invasion in February 2022, which means presidential elections are suspended.

  • Eheran@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Why do you think that he is almost entirely dependent on the POTUS? The EU is sending more aid, by the way.

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      3 days ago

      Right, but there’s two problems with that. One is that support for Ukraine isn’t nearly as strong in some European countries, especially those countries who are more reliant on trade with Russia. The other is that the EU itself has traditionally under-funded its own military and relied on US support. This means that not only do they not have the resources to give, they can’t give all that much without weakening what defense they do have. The EU simply can’t support Ukraine at anywhere near US levels even if it wants to, and even with US support, Ukraine has been starting to lose ground. Ukraine cannot sustain the war without US support, regardless of how much support the EU is able to give.

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        3 days ago

        So the EU supports them more… and you know that… but here we are, you tell us they CANT be anywhere near the USA…? Do I get that right? What am I missing?

        Losing ground at absurdly slow pace where Russia would win the war in 200 years with 100 million dead. They run out of everything already, what are they supposed to fight with in a year?