President Donald Trump’s Thursday morning social media post accusing Vladimir Putin of “very bad timing” with the devastating Russian strikes on Kyiv is being slammed as “laughable” by political analysts.
Trump posted on Truth Social, “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!”
The U.S. has been trying to broker a peace deal between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but talks have stalled in recent days over the issue of Russian controlling Crimea on the Black Sea.
“How threatened to you think Vladimir Putin is by those words?” asked CNN’s John Berman.
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“By ‘Vladimir, stop’? I don’t think he’s threatened at all,” said senior political commentator Ana Navarro.
She continued, “I feel like that’s going to be some sort of meme or or T-shirt slogan. As mild as it is, it’s the first public rebuke — I guess it’s foreign policy by tweet from Trump — and it’s the first time that we’ve seen him do something like this with Vladimir Putin.”
“Yeah, but what he doesn’t say…is that it’s wrong of you to be attacking Ukraine at all; he says it’s bad timing!” Berman said, quizzically.
“Russia could end this conflict immediately — they are the ones who invaded a sovereign nation. So, the fact that the president is now all of a sudden tweeting something out that says, ‘Vladimir, stop,’ or, you know, ‘this is bad timing’ is laughable,” said democratic strategist Meghan Hays. “This is not the way you do foreign policy.”
Hays added, “And let’s not forget that Ukraine, here, is the one who’s being attacked, and they are the ones who are trying to defend themselves, and America should be defending Ukraine and its other allies of the coalition that was built to support Ukraine against Russia. So, this whole thing is just laughable on the president’s part.”
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