Donald Trump attacked the media and Republican “instigators of war” in an angry statement Tuesday calling for “misrepresentation” of his comments, calling the Russian president Vladimir Putin “genius” for the invasion of Ukraine.
The former president accused “Biden, NATOand the West for Moscow’s unprovoked attack on its neighbor, accusing them of doing nothing until Putin declared two breakaway separatist regions of Ukraine independent republics, which then allowed their pro-Russian leaders to invite Kremlin troops.
This comes according to the president’s reports Joe Biden will close United States airspace to Russian planes as the latest sanction against Putin during his speech on the state of the Union on Tuesday night.
“RINO, Warmongers and fake news continue to brazenly lie and misrepresent my remarks to Putin because they know that this terrible war against Ukraine would never have happened under my supervision,” Trump said.
“They did absolutely nothing, as Putin declared much of Ukraine an ‘independent territory.’ “There should be no war in Ukraine now, and it is terrible for humanity that Biden, NATO and the West have failed so badly to allow it to begin.”
Trump has said Biden’s environmental measures over the past year are to blame for Russia’s ten-year position as a leading exporter of oil and gas.
Trump targets Biden, NATO and the West and accuses the United States and its allies of allowing Putin to invade Ukraine
Civilians are training to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on March 1. Putin personally ordered Kremlin troops to invade late last week
Pro-Russian separatists, in uniforms without insignia, gather in the separatist region of Donetsk region
Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Monday, killing three children, including
Fire trucks were photographed during the reaction to the shelling of Russian invaders in front of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration building on Freedom Square on March 1
He also seems to be referring to the president’s comments from June 2021, in which Biden claimed that the Pentagon had told him in 2009 that climate change was “America’s biggest threat”, in which he still believes.
“Instead of showing strength and tenacity, they declared the global warming scam the number one threat to global security, killed American energy independence, and then made Europe, the United States and the rest of the world dependent on Russian oil,” Trump said. .
“They made the welcome bed open and opened Russia, now Putin can get everything he wants, and Ukraine and the rest of the world are suffering the consequences.
“It’s awful, but that’s what you get with Biden, the Democrats and the instigators of the RINO war!”
“RINO” refers to the Republican In Name Only, a nickname that Trump often uses for his right-wing critics.
The former president sparked outrage in the political spectrum late last week, praising Russia’s authoritarian leader’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine as “genius” and saying his plan to identify two separatist breakaway areas as “independent” was “reasonable”. “.
“Putin is now saying, ‘This is independent’ ‘in much of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” Trump said on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.
Trump says he prevented Putin from invading a neighboring country when he was president, but critics say he has encouraged the Russian leader to further meddle in global affairs.
He continued to repeat the Kremlin’s lie that Putin was sending “peacekeepers.”
“This is the strongest peacekeeping force I have ever seen. There were more army tanks than I saw. They will keep the peace, “Trump said.” Here is a man who is very decent. I know him very well. Very, very well.
During his big speech on CPAC on Saturday night, Trump returned his comments on Ukraine, but continued to speak passionately about Putin. Instead, he blamed the Biden administration for invading Russian forces.
“Russia’s attack on Ukraine is appalling. “It’s a disgrace and an atrocity that should never have been allowed,” Trump told an audience in Florida last night.
However, he added: “Yesterday, reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart. I said, of course, that he was smart. The problem is not that Putin is smart – which of course he is smart – but that our leaders are stupid.
The former president’s allies say Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, both when Barack Obama was president. They argue that the fact that Putin stopped seizing land for four years under Trump and is resumed now is proof of the former president’s foreign policy.
However, others argue that Trump’s warm embrace with the Russian autocrat in power and anti-NATO stance only encouraged him.
Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who is running for president against Obama in 2012, has targeted both Democrat and Republican leaders as the crisis in Eastern Europe unfolds.
“Putin’s impunity predictably follows our lukewarm response to his previous horrors in Georgia and Crimea, our naive efforts to unilaterally ‘reset’ and America’s short-sightedness in the first place,” Romney said in a statement Thursday.
Chris Christie, a former New Jersey governor who was once a supporter of Trump, said Monday that anyone who would make such a comment has no “understanding of the world.”
As Putin personally ordered his troops to invade Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday morning, the United States imposed a series of sanctions on Western allies to punish Moscow and make it more difficult to continue its invasion.
Biden is expected to close US airspace to Russian planes as the West’s latest punitive measure against Putin’s attack
So far, targeted sanctions have largely avoided the energy sector in order to minimize the impact of economic blockades on the world community.
In addition to punishing Russia’s main financial institutions, sanctions have targeted senior Kremlin officials, including Putin himself.
Biden is expected to take a step forward and join the European Union and Canada in limiting their sovereign airspace to Russian aircraft, Reuters reported.
He also intends to condemn Putin’s “deliberate and unprovoked” war in his address on the state of the Union, according to excerpts provided by the White House.
“Throughout our history, we have learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. They keep moving. “And the costs and threats to America and the world continue to rise,” he said.
“That is why the NATO Alliance was created to ensure peace and stability in post-World War II Europe. The United States is a member along with 29 other states. It matters. American diplomacy matters.
“Putin’s war was deliberate and unprovoked. He rejected the efforts of diplomacy. He believed that the West and NATO would not respond. And he thought he could separate us here at home. Putin was wrong. We were ready.