What Trump *JUST* Said | Ukraine, Russia & More

All right, so JD Vance clearly sitting

next to Donnie T there as Zalinsky shows

up in a suit, no tie. What did we just

hear and what came out of the Trump

Zalinski Oval Office meeting? Uh, well,

let's go through all of it. Uh, first

things first, look, this Ukrainian

disaster with Russia has for a very long

time been what most mainstream media

just doesn't want to tell you out loud,

a proxy war. This has been a proxy war

between the United States and the

European Union against Russia to weaken

a nuclear adversary on the global stage

who is a big ally of North Korea and of

China. And if you weaken Russia, who's

also a big proponent of bricks, you

know, the ddollarization,

uh, and you weaken the axis of China,

Russia, Iran being involved with not

only manufacturing drones inside of

Russia, but also working very closely in

partnership with Russia and weaponry

when it comes to potentially attacking

Israel. you see this sort of broad

zoomed out situation of okay maybe it

makes a little sense why the United

States provides as much CIA intelligence

that's a little redundant central

intelligence agency intelligence but

it's as much intelligence as we do to

Ukraine but it's not just intelligence

it's quite literally targeting it is

weapons authorizations will allow you to

use the weapons there but not there

we'll allow you to strike there but not

there is essentially directing this war

just using Ukrainian soldiers. So, this

is really important to remember. So,

Donald Trump says this war wouldn't have

happened if it if he were in office. But

then people wonder, would it just boil

up into a larger aggression from Russia

or if the war ended too prematurely

by giving Russia the land that they

wanted? Would that end up just setting

up Russia for more aggressive posturing

in the future, especially in

coordination with known state sponsors

of terror like North Korea and Iran, as

well as

coordinating with China, maybe in taking

over Taiwan. Who knows? These are all

interconnected pieces. Now, all of that

said and background set, let's talk a

little bit about what was talked about

this morning. So, Zilinsky showed up in

a suit. No time. Uh Trump did, you know,

threaten and pause intelligence sharing

after that February 28th Oval Office

meeting where JD Vance says, "Have you

said thank you once?" Uh we did end up

getting a pause of intelligence sharing

for about one week and then we quickly

got back to in intelligence sharing.

that has been threatened again as

potentially being a tool or point of

leverage now in negotiations with

Ukraine because remember Trump is trying

to send a signal that this is not

European uh a European situation and a

US and Russia and Ukrainian situation.

Instead, Trump is trying to signal this

is US, Russia and Ukraine. And I think

the way he showed this most clearly

today was his chief of protocol, Monica

Crowley. She was responsible for

greeting European leaders, showing up

and pulling up in their convoys at the

White House. Usually Trump would be

responsible for meeting those folks,

just like Trump met Putin on Friday.

when Zalinski pulled up, Trump did end

up meeting and greeting Zalinski. Now,

this is interesting because it somewhat

sends a signal that, you know, Trump

doesn't care as much about the European

Union. Now, what's also worth knowing

about this is Donald Trump's really

clever in the way he kind of talks about

weapon sales and weapon donations. And

you should kind of know a little bit of

the background about how this works

because Donald Trump says, "Oh, we were

just donating weapons to Ukraine. We're

not doing that anymore." You know, now

we're selling weapons. We're no longer

giving weapons to Ukraine. But you kind

of have to understand how this works.

The way this works is the United States

funds NATO. We're the largest funer of

NATO. Now, Donald Trump has negotiated

and sort of twisted the arms of other

European countries to contribute more to

NATO, which is fantastic. Finally, a

president has pulled this off. This is

great news. You have to give the

president credit where credit is due.

This is great. But NATO basically then

buys European and US weapons and then

turns around and gives them to Ukraine.

So, it's kind of true that the United

States doesn't just donate weapons to

Ukraine, but it's also kind of true that

through NATO, we donate weapons to

Ukraine. Ukraine can't really afford

these weapons. Let's be real. So, with

this, uh, Donald Trump says he'll be

meeting with European Union leaders

after his Oval Office meeting just now

with Zalinski. He does suggest that

there is a chance of a trilateral

agreement. This is just a fancy way of

saying an agreement between Russia,

Ukraine, and the United States, but it

doesn't look like it is going to be any

kind of uh, you know, ceasefire. Donald

Trump says he likes ceasefires. However,

suggests that Putin and Zalinsky might

not be able to pull off a ceasefire.

Trump says there's a good chance of

ending the war now, but hopefully we can

stop the deaths. Trump says there have

been millions of deaths. I went ahead

and fact checked this. So far, there

have been 250,000 confirmed Russian

deaths and casualties at about 950,000.

So, if you look at casualties, yes,

we're at about a million there. The

casualties being injuries, right? Uh,

and per the Guardian, there have been

about 60 to 100,000 Ukrainian deaths and

about 400,000 casualties. Now, there are

two things going on here. Number one is

it's not uncommon for invaders to face

higher deaths due to the entrenchments

of existing Ukrainians. It's kind of

like, you know, the Alamo when the

Mexicans came with 1,800 to 6,000

soldiers to run over the Alamo and you

had 200, maybe even 180 soldiers

defending the Alamo in an entrenched

fort. You ended up having about 2 to

three Mexican deaths per Alamo fighter

death on the American side. This is

again, you know, what it usually takes

to take over uh an area versus being

entrenched and being a defender. Anyway,

uh Zilinski hopes for some form of

diplomatic end, but be clear, Zalinski

doesn't want to give up land. Zilinski

doesn't want to give up land because

most of that eastern region of Ukraine

is where Ukraine's energy production is

in that Dawnboss region. This is where

the money is for Ukraine. This is what

can help keep UK Ukraine's economy

going, which is exactly what Putin

wants. Now, Europeans are worried that

Putin doesn't just want the energy. That

that's the guys that he's going to

manipulate Trump into saying, "Hey, he

they just want the energy. Let him have

some energy and business deals. Let him

have some energy economy and that's it."

the European Union. They believe

collectively that Putin is really just

looking for a launchpad or an

opportunity to to, you know, attack more

than just Ukraine and eventually attack

Finland or Poland or otherwise in the

future. It's worth also looking at if

you jump into

what's circulating on social media right

now, there is apparently a Gaz 71. This

is an armored personnel carrier driving

around uh in Let's actually make that

not loud and noisy. There we go. Driving

around or videoed

Oh, that just has an overlay of music.

Got it. Uh a video of this this armored

personnel carrier driving around on the

front lines in Russia towards Ukraine.

Uh and it has a United States flag and a

Russian flag

on on the end of it. Now, a lot of

people think that this is part of

Putin's propaganda machine. That, see, I

was able to go to the United States, get

the US Army to roll out the red carpet

for me. They rolled out the red carpet

for me. I looked in Trump's eyes and I

told him, "I want land, and I'm not

doing a ceasefire." And so, what do you

then have? Then you have Trump saying,

"H, I don't think a ceasefire is going

to happen." And, yeah, there's probably

going to be some territory swapping. And

yeah, we said we were going to do

aggressive secondary sanctions against

Russia and there would be major

consequences for Russia, but we're kind

of walking that back as well. So when

you combine

that Putin propaganda of look, Putin's

kind of steamrolling Trump a little bit,

at least in terms of this this

impression from the Russian side, right?

like Putin's kind of got Trump talking

exactly what Trump want or or what Putin

wants. And then you put this together

with the red carpet imagery, the imagery

of now US flags on Russian uh vehicles,

which you know, who knows? Maybe those

are just sort of rogue soldiers or

whatever who decided to do that or it's

part of the Russian propaganda campaign.

It kind of shows that yeah, you know,

this this is a tougher situation for

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anyway, uh no, Donald Trump actually

said that he thought that ending the war

in Ukraine would be a lot easier, that

uh we'd be able to get this done much

sooner. But the reality has been much

more challenging, that this war wasn't

his easiest. If anything, it might

actually end up proving to be his

hardest war to solve, which obviously

isn't great. Uh Donald Trump says that

we'll talk more about troops and

security guarantees later today. There's

a lot of talk about potentially having

uh US troops as a second line of defense

following sort of NATO or European

troops or US troops inside of NATO

operating in some form of defensive

capacity. Keeping in mind that there's a

lot of sort of toying the line here

where Russia doesn't want Ukraine in

NATO, but there's a lot of talk about

having security guarantees that

basically give NATO protection to

Ukraine without giving NATO membership

to Ukraine. So even talk about article

five protection of Ukraine where an

attack on one is an attack on all. This

obviously would be very strong for

Ukraine is what Ukraine wants and

obviously something that Russia would

not want. But that's why the Europeans

are showing up today because they want

to make sure that Zalinski doesn't get

pressured into giving up territory that

ends up risking the sovereignty of other

European countries. Then uh Donald Trump

says that uh we um you well he picks up

on this Zalinsky saying you can't have

elections during a war. Trump says, you

know, sort of jokingly, wait, I could do

that. I could stop elections during the

war. Kind of leaning into this like

staying in office, you know, drama that

that there's been a lot of talk about.

And you know, Trump's been kind of clear

about I don't know. I I haven't decided

yet if I'm going to run for a third

term. I think he kind of likes and

craves the headlines. But anyway,

Silinsk's wife did give Trump a letter

for Melania, thanking Melania for her

letter to Putin about Ukrainian

children. Basically, please be careful

about killing Ukrainian children. Uh, at

some point, there's also been drama

about a story about the Zalinski's wife

buying a Bugatti for like €4 million.

This mentioned a dealership in Paris and

it was found to be fake. The Instagram

account from Jac Barton uh was deleted

after posting it. The headline also, if

you could read French, uh included the

following, which uh you know, I I I

can't speak French, but anyway, this is

basically a short description for your

article is is the translation of this or

basically a um what was it? A short uh

it stands for here's a short title for

the article suggesting that this was

probably just like an AI news website

that put this together. uh and the

dealership that was cited in this

actually filed a forgery complaint

against uh you know this this sort of

website or platform that puts this

information together. So anyway uh then

uh Donald Trump uh says that uh let's

see here we've got oh yeah then he gets

into ranting about how mail and ballots

are really corrupt. Uh he says he's

pretty sure we're the only country that

does mail and ballots. So I fact check

this and he's wrong. Uh Germany does

mail and ballots. Canada does mail and

ballots. UK does mail and ballots.

Switzerland does mail and ballots.

Australia does mail and ballots.

Uh so, you know, once again, a little

oopsies there, but you know, I think

sometimes the truth kind of misses

Donald Trump and he kind of doesn't care

because it's it's useful for his base to

kind of keep arguments going against

mail and ballots. He decries that mail

and ballots are a big issue and that

Republicans should worry more about mail

and ballots than they should worry uh

about um you know redistricting. I

actually think that mail and ballots you

know kind of interesting. I I think they

should just be like drop off ballots. I

think that that could be kind of uh you

know like a nice compromise. That's sort

of my opinion because, you know, I I we

get mail-in ballots and sort of just as

a human, I like to throw in that uh you

know, when I get a ballot, I sit there

and I fill it out at home because I

could do my research and fill out the

ballot and I could take my time and I'm

not like pressured at a polling booth to

just go down the list and you know, just

do all like R or all D or you know,

whatever you want to do. You can

actually take your time, fill it out,

and then you can fold it up and sign it

and seal it and then you can go drop it

off. But so maybe we need drop off

ballots. I don't I don't know. I'm a fan

of that. Uh that's when people get into

like ballot harvesting though where like

you can kind of collect and drop off for

or on behalf of other people. You know,

I wouldn't be opposed to like everybody

individually has to drop off their own

ballot. But anyway, that was Donald

Trump kind of like hijacking the meeting

a little bit to talk about that. Uh

president or the PM rather of Italy also

spoke to reporters saying that there are

no easy solutions. Uh Zalinski says uh

we need everything. Uh, we need troops,

weapons, a strong Ukrainian army,

training, intelligence. We need

everything. Trump says he'll call Putin

after these meetings. Bottom line, out

of all this, uh, a lot of optimistic

talk, I don't know that it's really

going to get anywhere. I'm hopeful and

optimistic, but um, you know, this I I

don't think Putin wants a deal. I think

Putin wants to keep going until he gets

the land that he wants. And Trump might

be the perfect person to push Sinsky to

take some kind of land swap deal, but

Putin's not going to stop until he gets

exactly the land he wants. And

unfortunately, that does hand uh Putin a

big win. Uh which again just supports

the aggression of countries like North

Korea, China, potentially with Taiwan.

Sets a precedent for Taiwan, which isn't

great. You know, let's land swap Taiwan

and then 90% of the world's

semi-conductor manufacturing is at risk.

So, a lot of potential issues there, but

we'll see how it goes. That's what we

heard today on Zalinsky and Trump. And

that gives you sort of a full breakdown

of what's going on.

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