{"id":1437318,"date":"2022-04-14T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437318"},"modified":"2022-04-14T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:50:59","slug":"trump-weighs-in-on-ukraine-calls-russian-actions-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-weighs-in-on-ukraine-calls-russian-actions-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Weighs in on Ukraine, Calls Russian Actions \u201cGenocide\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Ftrump-weighs-in-on-ukraine-calls-russian-actions-genocide%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=1437318&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--><div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/streiff\/2022\/04\/06\/donald-trump-scores-major-win-in-michigan-congressional-race-n546520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> appeared on Sean Hannity\u2019s show last night on Fox News. He commented on a variety of topics, including how the Biden administration has killed America\u2019s energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>But it was another comment that made the most news, lining up with something Joe Biden said days earlier: that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOW \u2013 Trump: &#8220;What&#8217;s going on in Ukraine that&#8217;s genocide.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xVDlpBVAOX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/xVDlpBVAOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1514418188318040072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026inflation to the loss of energy independence, it is so said to watch, and now add to to that what\u2019s going on in Ukraine, that\u2019s genocide, what\u2019s happening in Ukraine, people have never seen anything like that before\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hannity quickly moved on, perhaps not wanting to delve further into the strict definition of whether Russia is actually committing genocide in Ukraine. What happened in Bucha does appear to have been a massacre. The question is when war crimes turn into something systematic, which is what is typically required to be considered genocide. Past Bucha, as horrific and detestable as it is for Russia to bomb civilian centers, that\u2019s not automatically genocide (otherwise quite literally every major conflict is a genocide).<\/p>\n<p>Still, I have no qualms with people who want to go there. My only concern is possibly cheapening the usage of the term, allowing nations to abscond from taking direct action to fight widescale genocides in the future. Put simply, if everything is genocide, nothing is. I also understand that Russia has made genocidal overtures, such as claiming they will \u201cde-nazify\u201d Ukraine. That can\u2019t be discounted in the discussion, and I see both sides.<\/p>\n<p>That Trump described things using the term is interesting, and it does put to bed any stupid idea that he is somehow pro-Russia in this entire situation. His words were <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2022\/03\/03\/putins-emboldened-action-in-ukraine-is-not-because-of-trump-but-because-of-obama-n531095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken out of context<\/a> prior to the invasion when he called Putin\u2019s plan to use \u201cpeacekeepers\u201d to occupy \u201cindependent\u201d areas of Ukraine \u201csavvy\u201d and \u201cgenius.\u201d Trump wasn\u2019t wrong at that point, though. Had Russia stopped there, it would have been a very smart outflanking of the international community, which would not have reacted to Putin moving in on status quo areas. The former president <em>did not<\/em> claim that the actual full-scale invasion of Ukraine was \u201cgenius,\u201d and those still suggesting that are lying.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I don\u2019t think what Trump said is going to cause much controversy. He said something inconvenient to the left\u2019s narrative, so they\u2019ll likely ignore it before accusing him of being a Putin puppet again in the near future. It doesn\u2019t matter how many times Trump condemns Russia or the fact that his administration tried to kneecap Russia\u2019s energy sector regarding Europe, which could have prevented this invasion, something Ukrainian President Zelensky has suggested. The media and its Democrat allies will never let go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump appeared on Sean Hannity\u2019s show last night on Fox News. He commented on a variety of topics, including how the Biden administration has killed America\u2019s energy independence. 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