{"id":1326762,"date":"2022-02-22T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1326762"},"modified":"2022-02-22T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:08:30","slug":"what-a-mess-trump-weighs-in-on-ukraine-conflict-ahead-of-biden-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-a-mess-trump-weighs-in-on-ukraine-conflict-ahead-of-biden-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What A Mess\u2019: Trump Weighs In On Ukraine Conflict Ahead Of Biden Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-a-mess-trump-weighs-in-on-ukraine-conflict-ahead-of-biden-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1326762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump weighed in on Russia\u2019s Ukraine aggression ahead of President Joe Biden addressing the country on the same issue Tuesday, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin would have never took such an action during Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s statement came hours before Biden\u2019s scheduled speech Tuesday afternoon addressing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/22\/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-donbas-independent-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/21\/joe-biden-tweets-vladimir-putin-scared-going-toe-to-toe-russia-invades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putin<\/a> took the step of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/21\/vladimir-putin-emmanuel-macron-olaf-scholz-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officially recognizing<\/a> two separatist-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine as independent states Monday, and then ordered \u201cpeacekeeper\u201d troops into the contested regions. Trump argued that Putin only made the advance because he believes Biden\u2019s economic response will be \u201cweak.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/18\/exclusive-ukrainian-mp-biden-russia-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian MP Tells Biden What Would Really Stop The Russians From Invading)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all. I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing now,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe weak sanctions are insignificant relative to taking over a country and a massive piece of strategically located land. Now it has begun, oil prices are going higher and higher, and Putin is not only getting what he always wanted, but getting, because of the oil and gas surge, richer and richer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a mess our Country is in,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6795739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-6795739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a meeting in New York on Sept. 25, 2019. (SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden has vowed severe economic consequences for Russia should Putin move forward with an invasion, but some analysts argue Putin orchestrated his move to test the U.S. and NATO\u2019s definitions of \u201cinvasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin has choreographed this with the hope that we and the Europeans will debate whether this is an \u2018invasion\u2019 or not,\u201d former CIA Acting Director John McLaughlin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmclaughlinSAIS\/status\/1495931329447407621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated Monday<\/a>. \u201cAnd hoping that throws us enough off balance that he will pay a minimal price for this first slice of salami.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n\">\n<p>While Germany has already taken the step of halting the certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the U.S. has yet to unleash its threatened sanctions. Biden is set to deliver an update on the Ukraine conflict later Tuesday, however. The White House has not provided details as to what he will be announcing.<\/p>\n<p>Putin also took the step of asking Russian lawmakers Tuesday to authorize him to use force outside of Russia, a formality given Putin\u2019s control over the country. The lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterbakernyt\/status\/1496162523984318465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granted his request<\/a> within hours. The authorization is yet another sign that Putin may plan to escalate the conflict with Ukraine beyond even the deployment of \u201cpeacekeeper\u201d troops.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump weighed in on Russia\u2019s Ukraine aggression ahead of President Joe Biden addressing the country on the same issue Tuesday, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin would have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}