https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-blames-zelenskyy-ukraine-war-020517“Today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited,’” Trump said when asked about criticism from Ukraine, seeming to direct his response to Zelenskyy. “Well, you’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it — three years. You should have never been there.
You should have never started it. You should have made a deal.”
The comment — ignoring that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine without provocation three years ago this month — was Trump’s harshest condemnation to date of the Ukrainian side.
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>> When he left office just a month ago, Biden said he was leaving the Trump administration with a “strong hand to play” in foreign policy, ... “an America with more friends and stronger alliances, whose adversaries are weaker and under pressure,” than when he took office.