Trump zal Poetin nooit afvallen, want hij ziet hem als zijn grote voorbeeld. Het liefst wil hij de VS naar Russisch voorbeeld hervormen, met een autocratische leider en zware sancties op de geringste tegenspraak.— Bibliofilie (@bibliofilie) February 19, 2025
Trump liegt niet, maar leeft in een andere werkelijkheid. Hij denkt dat hij het echt weet. Dat is het enge van iemand zonder reflecterend vermogen, zonder moreel besef. Hij is zo van zichzelf overtuigd, dat veel mensen er in trappen. En hij komt er gewoon mee weg.— Hinke 🎷 (@hhsax) February 19, 2025
De man is veroordeeld voor fraude, voor oplichting en voor aanranding, het is te gek voor woorden dat hij ondanks die veroordelingen nog steeds gekozen is door het Amerikaanse volk, dat zegt wel wat over die mensen daar.— Ferre (@beveren_f) February 19, 2025
Voor u als historicus: Trump heeft gelijk en het siert hem de betrokkenheid van de VS en de CIA niet te ontkennen. De oorlog is al in 2014 begonnen met de staatsgreep tegen democratisch gekozen President Yanukovitch, waarna de drie regio's Loehansk, Donetsk en Crimea zich… pic.twitter.com/8ArVpc11Dj— Sovereign (@GeertJeelof) February 19, 2025
Grappig dat je hebt weggelaten hoe die regio’s zich afsplitste. Deze zijn namelijk met militair geweld ingenomen, waarna er schijn referenda zijn gehouden. Letterlijk heel de wereld erkent dit als Oekraïens grondgebied behalve Rusland, Noord-Korea.. en jij. Mooi lijstje hoor! 👏— BlokB (@blokkinator) February 20, 2025
Ter aanvulling deze reportage van CNN uit de Donbas toont hoe de bevolking werd gebombardeerd en geterroriseerd door Kiev onder toen nog president Poroshenko.https://t.co/4Dnwe4d4bf— Sovereign (@GeertJeelof) February 20, 2025
I can understand why many people are upset with Trump accusing Kiev for starting the war. However, we should admit that 2014 has been purged from our collective memory and banned from the war narrative - This was CNN reporting on Kiev's attack on Donbas after the 2014 coup pic.twitter.com/4NuSqakZAv— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) February 20, 2025
You are right. But I do not think it will help the peace process in saying these things. I also think that Ukraine should be at the table, although they do not have a legitimate President. But you cannot make a peace deal over the heads of the people involved. If you do that it…— Paul Haarman (@humaninternet5) February 20, 2025
We need to go further back. George Soros set up his foundation in the Ukraine in 1990. Two years before the "independence" of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/zhoYFt8vZP— PiggyGalore (@MissPiggyGalore) February 20, 2025
Kiev did start this, but I think Trump conveniently leaves out the fact that US had a hand on the wheel.— En Nobody (@een_nobody) February 20, 2025
Ukraine did start the war. Ukraine and NATO. That is an undisputable fact. Ukraine is not innocent whatsoever. They went along with every single EU and NATO scheme. The Ukrainian government 2014-today are war criminals.— The New Policy (@TheNewPolicy) February 20, 2025
CNN, 2016: "There's overwhelming support for the territory to rejoin the Russian Federation, as thousands of people turned out to vote in the referendum. This city has extremely close historical and cultural ties with what people call the motherland." pic.twitter.com/AuHK6TuO2t— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) February 20, 2025
Human rights violations: https://t.co/PCiBTHttpX— SanctimoniousMonk (@AmeliaAiredale) February 20, 2025
Trump is right to question the official narrative on Ukraine, we need to consider all facts including the events of 2014. The media has failed to provide context and history of the conflict, instead relying on simplistic narratives. It's time to have a more nuanced discussion…— Stop Socialist Tyranny (@endlibtyranny) February 20, 2025
People carefully ignore or omit the fact that Ukraine waged war on Eastern Ukraine oblasts for 14 years - shelling, killing, bombing. Ukraine treated the Russian speaking people in the East below 2nd class citizens & tormented them. Utterly shameful and a totally avoidable war.— snarkyslang (@snarkyslang) February 20, 2025
Here's a Biden speech from 1997 on NATO expansion. (40-sec clip) In it he says the Russians told him they were threatened by it and it might force them to ally with China. Biden laughs and says, "Good luck." This conflict was brewing for 20 years. https://t.co/TnOXTSIVjg— Peter Schmidt (The 92ers) (@The92ers) February 20, 2025
There was also a lot of reporting about national socialist (n@zi) brigades such as Azov and Right Sector in 2014: so much so that Congress forbade any funds going to them. (Biden administration lifted prohibition)— sissy muehleisen 1A🇺🇸🛡️🆘 (@thrulookingglas) February 20, 2025
Zelensky won because he promised to end the war. He ran a fierce campaign accusing Poroshenko of killing his own brother. Zelensky won and Ukraine lost— Regina (@ReginaMourad) February 20, 2025
The narrative of a "CIA coup 2014" sunk in. Yanukovych flew to Moscow protected by FSB. His lobbyists were Manfafort -> Deripaska and former heads of Italy Prodi -> Mitrokhin Files, Austria Gusenbauer -> Deripaska and Poland Kwasniewski -> Communist Security Service.— alexandra bader (@cw_alexandra) February 20, 2025
My interpretation is that he said "you shouldn't have started" in the context of "this war should have been avoided". Meaning Ukraine should have made a deal with the Russians before it got to armed hostilities.— Ricky Roma (@RickyRoma0) February 20, 2025
this war is a chain of provocations which started not even in 2014 but in the late 1990s when the US thinktanks decided it was a good game to play with Russia over Ukraine— Baroness de Generateux 🙏 (@degenerateux) February 20, 2025
That wasn’t an attack on Russia though, was it? That was an offensive against an armed insurrection by separatist forces— Robert Rea (@robertrea) February 20, 2025
"The armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine started in 2014. Between then and early 2022, it had already killed over 14,000 people. Over the course of eight years, Ukrainian government forces fought Russian-backed separatists for control over much of the two heavily industrialised…— The Swedish Chef 🇸🇪 (@KLunsen) February 20, 2025
Many attacks and atrocities were staged in that conflict. Are we sure those shells were Ukrainian? - I mean the Russians rightly pride themselves on their deception techniques.— John Forbes (@oldfather_john) February 20, 2025
I don’t know anything about Ukraine or Russia but I always thought it is a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over Donbas. Or it was used as an excuse, but the narrative that Russia wants to conquer Europe is far fetched. I feel it was a bilateral wound that triggered all this.— MaggieView (@Magdaview12) February 20, 2025
In addition, Zelensky could have negotiated with Putin in 2022, even before the start of military action! It was also possible to agree on the basis of the Istanbul agreements, immediately after the start of military action. Zelensky wanted this war!— Svetlana (@Kraftonweg) February 20, 2025
Funny how CNN and the BBC used to slate Ukraine but did a 180°. Looking at it objectively the Donbass is like Kosovo and Ukraine is like Serbia, somehow NATO bombed Serbia to protect Kosovo, the hypocrisy.— Harvee (@LeefromHKSK) February 20, 2025
In the end 14.000 people/kids were killed by Ukranian Azov-nazi soldiers, 1,6 Russian speaking Ukranians fled to save Russia! I vividly remember the bodies in the streets of innocent people in Donetsk, like a young mother with her baby still in her arms. The video's disappeared!— cecila (@queenofunseen) February 20, 2025
Ignoring this was part of Reuters “large scale social deception “ campaign with USAID. It wouldn’t fit the narrative of “Putler”— Clairebb (@clairebb47848) February 20, 2025
I gather this was after Russia annexed Crimea tho ?— Michael Dance (@MichaelGDance) February 20, 2025