Trump finally shows his cards -- he's siding with Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : If Congress and the courts allow it to stand, Trump can kiss his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize goodbye.
51% : Enter Trump, his special relationship with Putin, and his claim that the war would never have happened, had he been in power.
42% : Trump has made clear that he agrees with Putin that the possibility of NATO membership justified Russia's invasion.
39% : President Trump has just shocked most of the world -- and generated exuberance in the Kremlin -- by stunningly accusing Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.
35% : Trump's openly siding with an accused war criminal constitutes the greatest repudiation of Western values and collective security arrangements by any American president since World War II and the history of the Republic.
32% : Trump is right that a little disruption to foreign relations can motivate allies to take their own self-defense more seriously.
29% : Trump is already demonstrating how he would have prevented the war -- by taking Putin's side and cutting off support for Ukraine.
27% : Trump declared that Ukraine is responsible for the massive Russia-inflicted death and destruction in its own country by refusing to "make a deal" with Vladimir Putin -- that is, by not capitulating to Putin's ultimatum that Ukraine surrender its independence and territorial sovereignty, cease to exist as an independent nation, and accept absorption into a restored Russian and neo-Soviet Empire.
26% : Perhaps instead of being placed next to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore, a Russian mountain will feature the carved images of Lenin, Stalin, Putin and Trump.

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