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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 148 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Let's see if Trump reverts to his old position again in a couple of days.
I don't trust anything Trump says, he also said to multiple major European leaders, that he would sanction Russia if they didn't agree to a ceasefire.
A week has gone by, and as usual Trump has done nothing to help Ukraine.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trump will never directly help Ukraine. He simply won't. Best he'll do is stop helping Putin. Even that's a far off "if".

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, nor by the Americans,”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/germany-and-ukraines-other-allies-scrap-range-limits-on-arms-sent-to-kyiv

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Notice how Trump isn't mentioned at all in this.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, shit.

Biden did that.

I’ll have at recalibrate my thoughts a bit.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nice work finding that. Cheers

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dug a bit deeper still after the above comment, and my additional findings ostensibly seem to contradict your sentiments, but actually lend credence to them.

Quoting myself (roughly) -

It looks like they ran out of ATACMS in March and the U.S. has been sending the significantly less effective GLSDB as a replacement.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Seems like those articles just highlight how much of a test bed Ukraine is for weapons manufacturers more than anything to do with policy. But i could be misreading it, it's early for me.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

depends on how scared of putin, trump is from time to time. many times trumps was ghostly white after "talking" to putin, when something goes bad for putin.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

He will forget by tomorrow.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

It's all an act. Putin let him know that he's about to start bombing cities, and told HitlerPig to verbally condemn it, but do nothing else. It gives him the ability to say that he's not in Putin's pocket, after all, he condemned the Ukrainian bombing.

Talk is cheap, especially Political talk, and ESPECIALLY HitlerPig talk.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best case scenario is that Trump really was such a moron as to believe Putin wanted peace and now feels betrayed and does a 180 on Ukraine policy. Much more likely he will stay the course on screwing Ukraine.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 month ago

I think it's less of "Putin wanted peace", but that "Putin is amenable to peace if he gets everything he wants", which might have even been true before the Russian economy got so wrecked that stopping the war would crash it.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I admire the take that Trump is able to realize stuff.

But I'm not very hopefull

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

It's like doing a mirror test on a wild animal

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

He'll forget in day and believe Putin again

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It is just time to play both sides and make it out like DT is reasonable. He has done nothing to reign in Russia and I highly doubt he would do anything but a symbolic gesture.

This is just a White House propaganda piece. Make people doubt his allegiance to Russia. A big waste of our time, but that appears to be the point.

[–] zenitsu@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They were even spared from the "universal" tariffs lmao

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Propaganda is useful. It might be wrong, but there is a specific reason they're saying it.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is he talking about the actual US President Donald Trump?

I don't think he has the mental capacity to realize anything

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

Trump is such a fucking gullible, demented moron. The only people dumber than him are the people that voted for him.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Zelenskyy didn’t wear a suit or thank trump himself publicly for the hundredth time, so I’m sure trump is still team Putin.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 24 points 1 month ago
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

I doubt it. But it'd be nice.

[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Macron hasn't realised Trump is lying to him

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please.

The sole redeeming factor about Trump is being extremely unpredictable. He is a quintessentially ignorant American in that way. No one can reliably control him, he will flip-flop between diametrically opposed positions at will.

Hopefully chaos impersonated will turn on Putin for a while. Hell, if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent he may be able to harm Russia more than Biden ever did.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The sole redeeming factor

yeah I really don't see this as a redeeming factor but I don't disagree with the overall premise

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair, "positive aspect" would've been significantly better wording. There's nothing Trump can do to redeem himself unless he does an inverse John Fetterman.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent

Can you really be said to ignore something if you are totally ignorant of its existence?

[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's a bit of a slap in the face really.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

French President Emmanuel Macron believes US President Donald Trump has finally realised that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been deceiving him.

Oh my no... The cognitive dissonance will take over. Trump will be back to blaming Ukraine and talking about how wonderful Putin is again in short order

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I kinda think it’s a game. Putin told trump to say it so they can act like they’re not in bed together

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

This is my 2 cents on it as well.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So when Putin says "I love you" after Trump sucks his dick, he's lying?

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

When they have the kompromat, they even let you be pretend mad from time to time. Talk is cheap though.

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guess Putin forgot to give Trumpie a plane.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Has he, though?

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Longest and most obvious "coming to realization" montage ever

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

What? Noooo…

[–] hedhoncho@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Considering how all of MAGA played 2020 ( they downright knew the facade the whole time) There’s not a doubt Trump knew what was going on. He may play a dumb American but there’s just no way trump just realized this. He’s known it all along just like 2020.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

US recon planes are again flying over the black sea.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That sounds so naive...

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
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