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The phrases he is saying are so deep and so correct,
Essentially, this is President Trump surrendering to the Russians,
Does all the finger-pointing and pearl clutching make peace more likely? That’s the enduring question the president is asking. He wants peace, and if that’s the case, you’ve got to stare down the Russians, and Vladimir Putin, and who they’ve chosen to negotiate and have earnest conversations about difficult things,
Hegseth told his former colleague Shannon Bream President Trump’s peace through strength America First diplomacy effectively deterred Russia in his first term, and this war would have never started if he had never left office,
said the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in an email to the Wall Street Journal I don’t plan to stay in power for decades
There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining Nato
If, to achieve peace, you really need me to give up my post, I’m ready. I can exchange it for Nato [membership]
And so President Trump isn’t getting drawn into that in unnecessary ways, and as a result, we’re closer to peace today than ever before,
The war didn’t need to happen. It was provoked,
he added later in his answer I think that President Putin and President Zelenskyy are going to have to get together, because you know what? We want to stop killing millions of people,
This demonstrates that avoiding calling Russia an aggressor does not change the fact that it is one. No one should trust Putin’s words. Look at his actions instead,
You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,
You don’t have to agree with Trump 100 percent of the time to vote for him. Take it from me,
Haley remarked from the convention stage You shouldn’t have endorsed him, after telling us how awful he was, before going to work for him, then telling us how awful he was again, then endorsing him again,
You endorsed him, even though a second-grader could have seen this coming.”
Julie Roginsky, an American Democratic Party strategist, ordered Haley to “take a seat,” adding The worst thing we can do is walk back from our friends right now. And so we need to be a friend to Ukraine, not make them beg.”
In an interview with Face the Nation last year, Haley said of the war Why did you help him win?”
Democratic California Representative Eric Swalwell fired back on X to ask Haley I haven’t always agreed with President Trump. But we agree more often than we disagree. We agree on keeping America strong. We agree on keeping America safe. And we agree that Democrats have moved so far to the left that they’re putting our freedoms in danger,
They don't have any cards, but they play it tough,
Mr. President, Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.”
Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence earlier expressed a similar position to Haley’s, writing on X this week