Trump is a Putin apologist and says that Zelensky "let that war start"

Zelensky with Trump. Image: Rex Features.

The Metro newspaper reports that Trump has claimed that Ukraine allowed the current Russia-Ukraine water start whatever that means. He actually blames Biden for instigating the war 😢 (according to the Metro report) and that he would never have let it happen. 

Former US President Donald Trump cast blame on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – not Russian President Vladimir Putin – for the latter’s invasion of the smaller European country. - METRO

No one knows what he means and he appears to be a Putin apologist in blaming others rather than Putin for starting the Russia-Ukraine war. I think you will find that all the experts clearly argue that Putin started the war to annex Ukraine, all of it, but is now settling on annexing the eastern part, a section of Ukraine he has had designs upon since 2014.

This is nothing less than a power grab of a large part of an adjacent sovereign state because that's the way Putin operates. We can only come to the conclusion that Trump is a Putin apologist as stated. He claims that the war would never have happened if he was in the White House. He's always claimed that and that he is a friend of Putin. How you can be a friend of a mass murderer?

Many commentators and leaders will be concerned about Trump's relationship with Putin. One reason is that Putin knows how to use people like Trump. We know that Putin is interfering in many countries through the use of cyber attacks and the large-scale dissemination of misinformation to try and alter the views of hundreds of millions of people.

Putin is a damaging influence on the world in general. He destabilises the world and is doing a lot more to achieve this than people realise. I don't think you can talk to him to try and find a resolution to the war. That will be playing in his hands. The way to defeat Putin is to be strong; something he understands.

And Trump's appeasement talk, sidling up to Putin as a friend is not going to work but of course Trump's massive ego thinks it will work.

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