Kyle Anzalone – Antiwar.com Jan 24, 2025
In April 2022, Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kiev to ensure that President Zelensky didn’t sign any peace deal with Russia. Click to enlarge
President Donald Trump put some blame on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for choosing to fight Russia rather than make a deal. In April of 2022, Zelensky had nearly completed negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin when members of NATO pushed Kiev to fight rather than sign the agreement.
“Look, Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn’t have done that because we could have made a deal and it would have been a deal that would have been — it would have been a nothing deal,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday.
Trump may be referring to the negotiations that nearly ended the Russian invasion of Ukraine within the first two months. Under that deal, Russian forces would have withdrawn from Ukraine, including the Donbas, if Kiev would never join NATO and committed to some demilitarization.
During the interview, Trump indicated that he would have taken that deal. “I could have made that deal so easily. And Zelensky decided that I want to fight,” he said. Trump went on to say his predecessor, Joe Biden, did a “horrible job” by allowing the war to start.
Trump also placed some of the blame on Putin, noting “he shouldn’t have” invaded Ukraine several times.
When Zelensky was close to signing the deal, then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Kiev where he pushed Zelensky to forgo diplomacy and attempt to drive the Russian forces from Ukraine. At the time, members of NATO promised to give Ukraine everything it needed to win the war.
Trump says Zelensky now wants to negotiate an end to the war. “Zelensky — I will say this, he wants to settle now. He’s had enough. He shouldn’t have allowed this to happen, either,” the President said.
Putin has largely kept his demands consistent throughout the war; the Kremlin wants a US pledge that Ukraine never joins NATO, limits on what Western arms are sent to Kiev, and recognition of Ukrainian territory annexed by Moscow. At the start of the conflict, Russia had only annexed Crimea. Since then, Moscow has also held referendums and seized four additional Ukrainian oblasts.
Trump refused to tell Hannity if he had spoken with Putin. He did say he wanted to bring the war to an end as quickly as possible, claiming millions were dying. “It’s gotta end. These are human beings that are being slaughtered” on the battlefield, he said.
rothschild told his pal bad-boris to give zelenski another 300 milion ponds this caused great hardship all across the UK
bastard
Donald Trump praises Starmer for doing a ‘very good job’ as PM
surely hes joking ?
Story by John Besley •
Donald Trump has said he has a “very good relationship” with Sir Keir Starmer, adding the Prime Minister has done a “very good job thus far”.
what planet are you on donald ?
Speaking to the BBC onboard Air Force One, Mr Trump told the broadcaster the pair would be having a phone call “over the next 24 hours”.
“I get along with him well. I like him a lot,” Mr Trump said.
I may not agree with him or his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him
Fury as David Lammy himself a migrant hands out £20m to other migrants despite ‘UK going bust’ The Deputy Leader of Reform UK has savaged David Lammy after £20million worth of funding for was announced for Sudanese refugees.
Richard Tice blasted the Foreign Secretary for increasing the UK’s overseas aid contribution while millions of Brits struggle to make ends meet, and UK rough sleepers dying over this cold spell
“We are going bust in the UK”, he told the Daily Express. “We must stop sending money overseas on all these pet projects of Starmer and Lammy.
“When will they focus on improving lives for our people ?
More Truman Show or kabuki theater for the morons. The white dum dums still can’t figure out they’re (Zelensky/Putin/Johnson etc) all in on it to waste whitey.
american money is being used to kill and maim people
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/05/740347/we-want-americans-know-money-funds-destruction-palestinian-communities-activist