On the Outside Looking In

Yesterday President Trump answered questions about Ukraine and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. A lot of what follows are excerpts from this Q&A session.
It has been almost three years since the Russia-Ukraine war started, and there has been no movement towards resolution, until here just recently with President Trump now directing the symphony. According to DJT, at this point the U.S. has “contributed” around three hundred billion dollars and per Zelenskyy a lot of that money went to ?.
Now those that did nothing for years are in a tizzy because President Trump wants to stop the killing. Millions of people have died with no end to the killing in sight. A lot of the cities in Ukraine are a shambles, and Trump questions how people can still live there.
Europe and Zelenskyy are offended because they are not being included in the ongoing talks between the U.S.and Russia. They both put their faith in Joe Biden and now are going to pay a price for siding with that ineffective leader who has a past record of foreign policy miscues. Consequently they are now in a position of seemingly wanting this endless war to continue as Trump wants to negotiate a way to end it.
Trump campaigned on ending this war, and those that know his modus operandi are aware that he usually follows through on what he promises. Instead of immediately jumping on the Trump bandwagon, they find themselves on the outside looking in.
2/19/25