Trump Says Ukraine Cannot Win War Without Striking Russia

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The U.S. president blamed the former administration for not letting Ukraine โ€˜fight back.โ€™

WASHINGTONโ€”President Donald Trump wrote on Aug. 21 on Truth Social that Ukraine cannot win its war without launching attacks on Russia, criticizing prior U.S. policy that only allowed Kyiv to defend itself, not attack.

โ€œIt is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaderโ€™s country,โ€ Trump wrote on Aug 21.

โ€œItโ€™s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia.โ€

Trump signaled openness to Ukraineโ€™s launching more attacks on Russia and criticized the previous administration for limiting Kyiv.

He said, former President Joe Biden โ€œwould not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out?โ€

โ€œRegardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President – ZERO CHANCE. Interesting times ahead!!!โ€ he said.

Trumpโ€™s comments came after peace talks in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed by meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Aug. 18.

In a subsequent post on Aug. 21, Trump posted two photosโ€”one that showed him pointing his finger at Putinโ€™s chest during their private conversation at a military base in Alaska last week, and another from 1959 of then-Vice President Richard Nixon making a similar gesture at then-Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Trump had previously criticized the Biden administration for permitting Ukraine to use U.S.-made long-range missiles against targets inside Russia, arguing that it would escalate the conflict.

โ€œI disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that? Weโ€™re just escalating this war and making it worse,โ€ Trump said in an interview with Time magazine published in December 2024, nearly a month after winning the presidential election.

โ€œThat should not have been allowed to be done. Now theyโ€™re doing not only missiles, but theyโ€™re doing other types of weapons. And I think thatโ€™s a very big mistake, very big mistake.โ€

Trump this week told European leaders that a breakthrough occurred at the Alaska summit when Putin agreed to accept security guarantees for Ukraine.

By Emel Akan

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