How did I miss Russia for lack of a better word bitch slapping Trump? The incident from what I can tell pivots around Trump telling Putin not to escalate the Ukraine war shortly after Trump won the 5 Nov presidential election.
11 Nov 2024 - Trump urges Putin to avoid escalation in Ukraine war, report says
US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, advising against escalating the Ukraine war and highlighting the US's "sizeable military presence in Europe", according to the Washington Post. Trump reportedly expressed interest in further discussions to seek a swift resolution to the conflict.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241111-trump-putin-ukraine
10 Nov 2024 - Donald Trump Tells Putin Not to Escalate Ukraine War in Post-Election Call
President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in a post-election phone call, reportedly telling him not to escalate the Ukraine war, according to The Washington Post.
Trump reportedly reminded Putin about "Washington's sizeable military presence in Europe," the Post's Sunday report said. The call was made from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Now out comes the Krelim to deny the phone call with Trump ever took place after Trump's supposedly dick-waving about the size of the U.S. Military on the alleged phone call while telling Putin not to escalate the Ukraine War.
11 Nov 2024 - Kremlin says reports that Trump and Putin spoke in recent days are 'pure fiction'
first reported that the call had taken place, citing unidentified sources, and said that Trump had told Putin that he should not escalate the Ukraine war. Reuters also reported on the call, citing an unidentified source.
12 Nov - Russian TV Shows Explicit Photos of Melania to 'Congratulate' Trump on his Election Victory - On Demand News
Now of course showing explicit photos of the First Lady is what you do in Russia while congratulating somebody on their presidential election victory. Putin decided around two weeks later to make a comment about mudslinging against Trump's family as 'vile". The way that it is being reported was Putin was only referring to how those in the U.S. would attack Trump's family. No mention of Russian state-owned media.
29 Nov - Putin slams election mudslinging against Trump’s family as 'vile'
ASTANA, November 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is outraged by all the hate thrown at US President-elect Donald Trump’s family during his election campaign.
"The biggest thing for me was that while attacking [Trump] as part of the election campaign, they not only subjected him to humiliating, unfounded judicial proceedings but also bashed his family, his children too. Even common thugs don’t do that here," Putin noted, when talking with reporters.
The theatrical show must go on.
25 Jan 2024 - Vladimir Putin calls Donald Trump 'clever' and suggests talks, including over Ukraine
And he also said Moscow is ready for talks with the U.S. on a broad range of issues.
Putin praised Trump as a “clever and pragmatic man” who is focused on U.S. interests.
Putin also supported Trump's claim that the US presidency was "stolen" from him.
“I couldn't disagree with him that if he had been president, if they hadn't stolen victory from him in 2020, the crisis that emerged in Ukraine in 2022 could have been avoided."
Putin's statement was his bluntest endorsement yet of Trump's refusal to accept his defeat in the 2020 election.
Some say an American first policy means America alone. Medvedev dismissed Trump’s declaration of a new "Golden Age of America" as theatrical and irrelevant to global affairs.
28 Jan 2025 - Medvedev Mocks Trump, Says Russia Won’t Be Fooled by U.S. Strategy
Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, shared a photograph from a 2017 summit in Manila, featuring Trump and other global leaders.
He used the image to mock the U.S. president, insisting that Russia will not be misled by his strategy.
According to Russian state media, Medvedev dismissed Trump’s declaration of a new "Golden Age of America" as theatrical and irrelevant to global affairs.
28 Jan 2025 - Ukraine conflict could end in weeks – Putin
The US and other backers of Ukraine have channeled more than $200 billion in aid to Kiev, ranging from weapons, equipment, and ammunition, to cash payments for the salaries of government employees and pensions. The Kremlin has pointed to this support as making the West “de facto a party to the conflict,” which both Washington and Brussels have officially denied.
https://www.rt.com/russia/611796-putin-ukraine-months-sponsors/
Some would say Trump was arming Ukraine in 2017 after an American coup in 2014 and before a full-scale American-led proxy war with Russia.
4 Jul 2024 - Fact check: Did Trump send Ukraine weapons that Obama and Biden withheld?
"The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send," Cotton said.
Cotton spokesperson Patrick McCann told PolitiFact that Cotton was referring to Javelins, antiarmor missiles provided by the Trump administration. In 2014, Obama rejected a request by Ukraine for those weapons. Biden was Obama’s vice president.
Trump reversed Obama’s policy; in 2018, the Trump administration approved a plan to sell Ukraine Javelin missiles for $47 million.
"As you can see, it is clear that this form of lethal aid was both important and provided by the Trump administration and not the Obama-Biden one," McCann said.
2 Oct 2019 - Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine
The Trump administration first approved the sale of Javelins to Ukraine in 2017.
The sale of Javelins is not part of the nearly $400 million of military assistance that the White House had ordered the State Department and Pentagon to withhold a week before Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That aid, which has since been released, included assistance for maritime security, special operations units, secure communications and light weapons like sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The West had military operations in Ukraine at the time of Trump's presidency.
Operation Orbital Wiki
Operation Orbital was the code-name for a British military operation to train and support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was launched in 2015 in response to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. It provided training to over 22,000 Ukrainian military personnel before it was suspended ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A successor, Operation Interflex, which involves a larger, British-led multinational training programme, was launched in the United Kingdom soon after.
In 2018, the UK expanded the scope of Operation Orbital to include maritime training provided by teams of Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel.[5] During the same year, members of 3rd Battalion, The Rifles (3 RIFLES) were among those involved with providing training.[6]
In November 2019, the Ministry of Defence announced it had trained approximately 17,500 Ukrainian military personnel. It also announced a three-year extension to the operation.
On March 6, 2017, the Government of Canada announced the extension of Operation UNIFIER until the end of March 2019.[6]
On March 18, 2019, the Government of Canada announced the extension of Operation UNIFIER until the end of March 2022.[6]
On January 26, 2022, the Government of Canada announced the extension of Operation UNIFIER until the end of March 2025, and increased the complement of 200 by another 60