More Ukrainians killed because Trump "appeases barbarians"

 From Salon:

""This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians": Putin defies Trump, escalates attacks

Sophia Tesfaye, March 8, 2025

Hours after President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office where he publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the week before that his administration is "doing very well with Russia" and "it may be easier dealing with" Russian President Vladimir Putin than Ukraine, the Russian military launched a series of deadly missile and drone attacks, killing dozens of civilians.

"This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X. "More bombs, more aggression, more victims."

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 According to the BBC, at least 25 people died as a result of the missile attacks.

"After our emergency services arrived at the scene" of the first wave of missiles, Zeleneskyy wrote on X, Russia "launched another strike, deliberately targeting the rescuers."

“I actually think [Putin is] doing what anybody else would do,” Trump told reporters at the White House Friday afternoon. “He wants to get it ended.”

This week, the Trump administration suspended weapons shipments to Ukraine and stopped sharing satellite intelligence with the nation."

Rubio parrots Putin's claim of a proxy war in Ukraine

 From the Hill / Yahoo!News:

"Rubio says Ukraine conflict is part of US-Russia proxy war

Lauren Irwin, March 6, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a Wednesday interview described the war in Ukraine as a proxy war between the United States and Russia, as he sought to explain on the Oval Office blowup last week between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump and Vice President Vance.

“I think an important thing to understand about last Friday is not last Friday. It’s everything that led up to it,” Rubio said during an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity.”

“It’s been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted, stalemated conflict,” Rubio said. “And frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine, and Russia.”...

Describing the fighting between Russia and Ukraine as a proxy war meshes with a Russian narrative of why the war started. Russia argues that Ukraine’s efforts to join NATO, coupled with the western military alliance’s encroachment on Russia, triggered the fighting.

Trump in the past few weeks has accused Ukraine of starting the war and blamed Zelensky and the Biden administration for its continuation. He also cut off aid to Ukraine on Monday...

Rubio slammed Ukraine during the interview on “Hannity,” arguing that it has no plan besides asking allied countries for more aid “for as long as it takes.”."

Kellog blames Ukrainians for being betrayed and backstabbed by his administration

 From AP / Yahoo!News:

"Trump envoy says Ukrainians 'brought it on themselves' after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing

AAMER MADHANI, March 6, 2025

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, a senior administration official said Thursday.

The Republican administration announced the pauses this week after Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy'sOval Office meeting devolved into a shouting match, with the U.S. president and Vice President JD Vance excoriating the Ukrainian leader for being insufficiently grateful for the tens of billions of dollars in U.S. assistance sent to Ukraine since Russia invaded three years ago.

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, said the pause is already having an impact on Kyiv, adding that the Ukrainians "brought it on themselves."

“The best way I can describe it is sort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose,” Kellogg said at an event Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations. “You got their attention.”

Kellogg said it was made clear to the Ukrainians before last week’s Oval Office meeting that the talks would focus on signing a critical minerals deal. The agreement, which the two sides still have not signed, would give the U.S. access to Ukraine's rare earth deposits... Zelenskyy had been pressing the White House for explicit security guarantees, to no avail.

Kellogg said last week's talks went sideways because Zelenskyy pressed Trump — who is trying to play the role of intermediary to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia — to side with Kyiv...

“I think what’s going to happen is Ukraine wants to make a deal, because I don’t think they have a choice,” Trump said."