Putin Is Bombing, Trump’s Angry At Media, And Zelensky Denounces

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who near Alaska empowered by his US counterpart’s red-carpet reception, calling him “your excellency,” and bowing to his demands, continues to explosive civilian targets crossed Ukraine, while calmly speaking to leaders globally to brief them connected this victorious gathering pinch Trump.

In nan meantime, Trump tries to salvage nan small he tin from what each news outlets person called a defeat, a failure and a flop. “I americium wholly convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, ‘We springiness up, we concede, we surrender, we will GIVE Ukraine and nan awesome United States of America [sic] Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a 1000 miles, nan Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would opportunity that this was a bad and humiliating time for Donald J. Trump,” he ranted connected Truth Social.

“I’ve settled six Wars successful six months, 1 of them a imaginable Nuclear disaster, and yet I person to publication and perceive to nan Wall Street Journal, and galore different who genuinely don’t person a clue, show maine everything that I americium doing incorrect connected nan Russia/Ukraine MESS,” he said successful a abstracted post. “ I’m only present to extremity it, not to prosecute it immoderate further.” He called each his critics “STUPID” people, pinch nary communal sense, intelligence, aliases understanding, and they only make nan existent R/U disaster much difficult to FIX.”

Trump makes yet another U-turn

But nan facts are evident. He’s stopped nothing, arsenic Russia keeps pounding connected Ukraine. He came retired of a gathering pinch Putin, wherever he was charmed into making a complete U-turn. He entered that gathering demanding a ceasefire and would “not beryllium happy if it’s not today”, while threatening “severe consequences” if a truce was not agreed, he now wants Zelensky to springiness up Crimea and Donbass and each dream to subordinate NATO.

But not everybody believes Trump failed. US Senate Majority Leader John Thune connected X said that “President Trump should beryllium commended for his dogged determination to bring bid to Ukraine and for his courageousness to prosecute pinch each parties successful a measurement his predecessor refused to do.”

Over 950,000 Russian soldiers who Putin apt views arsenic expendable because they are not nan children of Moscow and St. Petersburg elites, person been killed and wounded since nan warfare began, nan Centre for Strategies and International Studies (CSIS) said. Ukrainian fatality rates truthful acold person been betwixt 400,000 casualties, a precocious number of which are civilians, nan CSIS added.

Today, August 18, Zelensky posted photos of Russian attacks occurring connected nan time of his gathering pinch Trump. 

“This was an perfectly revealing and cynical Russian strike,” Zelensky said. “They cognize that coming successful Washington, location is simply a gathering to extremity nan war. And it is astatine this very infinitesimal that nan Russians are striking astatine Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy region, Odessa, residential buildings, and our civilian infrastructure.”

He added: “This is nan deliberate execution of group by nan Russians, nan execution of children. As of now, 7 group are known to person died arsenic a consequence of nan drone onslaught connected Kharkiv, nan youngest is simply a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, and dozens of group are injured, including children. In Zaporizhia, 20 group are known to person been injured and 3 group killed arsenic a consequence of rocket strikes connected nan city.”

He concluded by saying Putin is putting connected this show to undermine efforts astatine nan White House and said that Russia should not beryllium rewarded for their warfare connected Ukraine.