The Daily Populous Friday December 13rd, 2024 morning edition
Authored by pravda.com.ua and submitted by Silly-avocatoe

US President-elect Donald Trump does not understand why Washington allowed Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with US missiles.

Source: European Pravda, citing Time, which recognised Trump as the Person of the Year

Details: At the end of November, Donald Trump gave a 65-minute interview, excerpts from which Time published on 12 December.

Trump criticised Kyiv for launching US-made missiles into Russian territory.

Quote from Trump: "I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that?"

The US President-elect also repeated that he wants to stop the Russia-Ukraine war because the deaths of so many people are ridiculous.

Florida Congressman Michael Waltz, Donald Trump's National Security Adviser, said in November that allowing Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory threatens to escalate the war further.

Trump believes that the situation in the Middle East is not as complicated as in Ukraine.

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mitchellthecomedian on December 12nd, 2024 at 17:49 UTC »

Well I strongly oppose missile strikes into Ukraine.

HighDeltaVee on December 12nd, 2024 at 17:11 UTC »

It's OK, at this point Ukraine have just said "Fuck it" and spent the last two years building their own.

They're now into serial production and scaling of multiple families of deep strike missiles, including the Palianytsia with 600-700km range, the heavier Neptune cruise missile with 300km range, and the newest Peklo cruise missile with 700km range.

That's on top of their existing drone fleet of long-range one-way drones, being built in their thousands per month and which have already hit targets 1,800km inside Russia.

ifhysm on December 12nd, 2024 at 17:03 UTC »

Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure Zelensky to go on CNN and interfere in the 2020 election.

ETA: Trump-Ukraine scandal:

> In August, Volker and American ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland drafted a statement they wanted Zelenskyy to read publicly that would commit Ukraine to investigate Burisma and the conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered with the 2016 election to benefit Hillary Clinton. However, Zelenskyy never made the statement.