Ukrainians “couldn’t cope without American weapons and support,” Yuliya Antonyuk, a 42-year-old real estate agent, told NBC News.

Trump earlier claimed that Zelenskyy had approval ratings of just 4%, even though an opinion poll released Wednesday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed that 57% of Ukrainians trust him.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    46·
    24 hours ago

    This is incredible and unprecedented. Trumps is basically saying to the world “If you’re a friend of the US, the US doesn’t have any qualm betraying you, so don’t befriend us if you’re smart.”

    • DeceptichumOPMEnglish
      40·
      24 hours ago

      “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” - Henry Kissinger

      Certainly no unprecedented.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
        9·
        20 hours ago

        What’s unprecedented is saying it out loud. Previous presidents pretended the country had firm friendships with other nations. Trump does away with the pretense. No other president has ever done that - possibly because no other president was this dumb.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
        4·
        22 hours ago

        It used to be that even the dirtiest President worked for America instead of himself.

        Trump surrendered.

        • DeceptichumOPMEnglish
          3·
          13 hours ago

          Didn’t Nixon sabotage Johnson’s Vietnam peace talks and illegally try to gain a personal advantage through watergate? That sounds very against America and for himself.

          Honestly I think Americans are wearing rose tinted beer goggles.