Via ADN:
On Wednesday, 45th President Donald Trump offered to help cool relations between Russia and Ukraine amid the two countries’ conflict that has now reached the seven-month mark. On Truth Social, Trump offered to lead peace talks between the two countries amid the Russian natural gas pipelines that had suffered significant leaks.
Trump wrote:
U.S. “Leadership” should remain “cool, calm, and dry” on the SABOTAGE of the Nord Stream Pipelines. This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet. The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President. Do not make matters worse with the pipeline blowup. Be strategic, be smart (brilliant!), get a negotiated deal done NOW. Both sides need and want it. The entire World is at stake. I will head up group???
American Military News adds:
Trump’s offer to act as an intermediary for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine comes as President Joe Biden’s administration has not sought to initiate any peace negotiations of their own. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
In a Feb. 22 interview with radio show hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had been “pretty savvy” to declare two separatist areas of eastern Ukraine as sovereign and then send troops across Ukraine’s borders under the pretense of peacekeeping in the region, without eliciting a response from Biden.
“This never would have happened with us,” Trump told Travis and Sexton. “Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened. But here’s a guy that says, you know, ‘I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,’ he used the word ‘independent,’ ‘and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace. You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad.”
In a March interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Trump called the invasion “a holocaust” but said both sides could work out a deal if Russian would first stop attacking and killing Ukrainians.
“They have to stop killing these people,” President Trump said. “They’re killing all of these people, and they have to stop it, and they have to stop it now.”
