No he wasn’t joking. He just doesn’t understand how anything really works. He thought he could just order Ukraine to cave in and it would happen. Like he was ordering a huge order of mcdonalds in for a high brow meal.
also he’s downstream of russian propaganda. russia says the war in Ukraine is NATO’s war. so Trump’s plan to bring peace to Ukraine was simple: just stop fighting. what he didn’t account for was the operational reality in Ukraine that who’s fighting is Ukrainians who are defending themselves from a russian initiated genocide.
No he wasn’t joking. He just doesn’t understand how anything really works. He thought he could just order Ukraine to cave in and it would happen. Like he was ordering a huge order of mcdonalds in for a high brow meal.
also he’s downstream of russian propaganda. russia says the war in Ukraine is NATO’s war. so Trump’s plan to bring peace to Ukraine was simple: just stop fighting. what he didn’t account for was the operational reality in Ukraine that who’s fighting is Ukrainians who are defending themselves from a russian initiated genocide.