Rob
One thing that I have learned not to do is trust CNN fact checkers when it comes to Trump. 80% of my tv news watching is CNN and MSNBC. Their "facts" are badly biased. Is this fact true? Maybe? Biden and Harris told me that the border was secure and that Biden was lucid and cogent. Given my priorities, those lies were a much greater concern, than dead people on SOSec rolls. And...CNN did not "fact check" them until the election was lost.

As for Ukraine. I read last night that Trump "paused" the aid. I can't tell you exactly and factually why he did it. Trump doesnt call me and kick ideas around, but here is MY GUESS.

Trump doesnt like participating in or financing foreign wars.

At all times, there is someone(s) telling the US that it is our duty under God to go fight one somewhere ...against evil and for democracy. That has been the case since I was born. An objective mind would put Vietnam and Afghanistan in the loss column. Many people see the invasion of Iraq as an egregiously unjustified destruction of life and property, based on intentional lies about their AMDs. (Personally, I don't see it that way)

Texas and California have greater GDPs than Russia. (Per Gemini)
But Russia has around 7k nukes with submarines and inter-ballistic missiles to deliver them.

Trump thinks that he can get along with Russia and he thinks that the world overall would be a better and safer place if Russia was gotten along with. And Russia may turn to the West instead of East if China decides to use the war machine that they have built up...from the profit of manufacturing goods for Europe and the US.

You think that Russia is an incarnation of 3rd Reich category evil and will blitzkrieg through Europe if their war machine is not utterly destroyed.
Trump sees Ukraine (and Zelensky) as a hopelessly corrupt, mostly inconsequential nation that stands in the way of the better and safer world that he envisions.

Who is Right? You and people sympathetic to your view, or Trump?
I don't know. I am completely GUESSING and surmising here.

My prediction...Zelensky knows that the US is his only bluff with the Russians. UK and France are just going to assist in dragging out an ugly loss. I suspect that Trump and Zelensky will be all-in-love again fairly soon.

But ROB, I DON"T KNOW. wink
Trump is on TV tonight holding a rally from the Capitol building. I suggest you tune in and gather whatever information is there.

Here is Zelensky's tweet today 03042024... https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1896948147085049916

Marty

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