According to Max Boot, the former US president has a “long and troubling history of using Russian propaganda” and spreading conspiracy theories about Ukraine.

Ukrainian ammunition is running low and its forward positions are in danger of being destroyed before the Russian advance. The US Senate passed a bill that included $60 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine, but House Speaker Mike Johnson is still blocking it from a vote in the House. Why not? The explanation can be summed up in two words: Donald Trump. The publication’s columnist, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Max Boot, writes about this in his column for The Washington Post.

In his opinion, Johnson knows that the most ardent followers of the former (and possibly future) president are ready to overthrow him if he decides to help Ukraine. Moreover, if Nikki Haley were a likely candidate from the Republican Party, the relief package would have been passed long ago.

“It’s no secret that Trump is pro-Russian – and in particular with regard to Vladimir Putin. Elected with Russian help in 2016, Trump never, ever criticizes the Russian dictator, even after the recent death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian colony. Trump went from inviting Russia in 2016 to interfering in the US elections … and in 2024 inviting Russia to invade NATO countries that do not pay enough for protection, the author notes.

At the same time, he said, less known than Trump’s commitment to Russia is his disdain for Ukraine, “but that has also been obvious for at least a decade.”

“Trump has a long and troubling track record of exploiting Russian propaganda and spreading wild conspiracy theories about Ukraine, a country that Putin, like many Russians, views as a wayward province of Mother Russia,” Booth said.

The journalist recalls that when Putin launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Trump called it a “brilliant”, “smart” and “savvy” act, and subsequently stated that he would end the war in Ukraine “in one day” – which was possible could only be achieved by forcing Kyiv to capitulate.

Whatever Trump’s actual thought process may have been – and it is true that his often contradictory and conspiratorial statements are difficult to decipher – the end result is clear: he has turned the Republican Party, which once prided itself on standing up to the “evil empire”, into Putin’s poodle. The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 US election, which may have helped turn a fight that Trump won by a razor-thin margin, may turn out to be one of the most significant covert actions in history, allowing the Russian strongman to win a victory in Washington that his troops could not. win on the battlefield,” the observer sums up.

Donald Trump – latest statements

The other day, former US President and one of the contenders for a new election to the main post in the country, Donald Trump, started talking about the US withdrawal from NATO. At the same time, the US President cannot make such a decision alone.

Therefore, if Trump wins and has the idea to formally withdraw America’s participation in NATO, he will have to wait for the midterm elections for the Senate and Congress.

also reported that Trump called Biden an “idiot.” In his speech, he accused the current US president of not being able to guarantee US security, and also mentioned Russian dictator-president Vladimir Putin.

According to him, the Russian President is talking about nuclear weapons “because he knows that the US President is an idiot whom he can deal with.”