Austria's Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said in an interview with Die Welt that Trump was ready to "hand over" Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin chose to keep fighting.

The Minister said the situation is clear: Ukraine wants peace, while Russia does not. Putin would have already started negotiations to end the war if he were truly interested in peace.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I really need everyone, especially Ukrainians to understand something, the rightwing of the US including Trump is NOT Ukraine's friend.

The reason Trump/rightwing US figures are suddenly acting like they are friends of Ukraine is because Ukraine is starting to decisively win this war and consolidate "western" military industrial complex behind longterm support for Ukraine that strategically denies a realistic pathway for Russia to achieve a victory in Ukraine.

This is Trump being a coward and jumping ship on his cronies, but even as he is doing this I think he still wants Putin to win, he just clearly simply does not think Putin can do that anymore and is acting selfishly to try to get some kind of political win out of this to help boost his horrific approval ratings in the US up some. It might be one of the only half intelligent thoughts Trump has had in awhile but it does not mean Trump or the rightwing of the US actually gives a shit about Ukraine, Europe which like the US is fantasizing about going full fascist again would do well to remember the lesson here..