KYIV — U.S. President Donald Trump finally labeled Russia the aggressor in the war against Ukraine, further demonstrating a hardening of his position toward Moscow.
Referring to Ukrainian and Russian troop casualties, Trump told reporters Sunday: “8,000 soldiers have died this week, from both countries. Some more from Russia, but when you’re the aggressor, you lose more.”
Trump has previously refused to condemn Moscow for the invasion, with his administration siding with Russia and North Korea in February to reject a U.N. motion backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemning Russia. The U.S also objected to a G7 statement calling Russia an aggressor in February. Trump has blamed Ukraine for the war, saying in April: “You don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”
But Trump’s stance toward the Kremlin has changed over the summer, with his administration exerting increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as the Russian president stonewalls Trump’s efforts to broker direct peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
No
A lot more from Russia, and not just only because it’s the aggressor, but because it’s playing meat grinder with its soldiers. It just keeps dumping the poor in the battlefield.
It WILL come back and haunt Russia for the next decades because no country can just lose well over a million young men lives without consequences
But having said that, Russia’s tactics are just ludicrously stupid and basically consists of sending poor men to their death and hoping Ukraine can’t kill them fast enough.
One of the more interesting side effects of the meat grinder is that poor, rural areas of Russia are suddenly seeing problems with inflation because of the death payments to soldiers’ families.
That’s an interesting knock off effect. Makes sense in retrospect, but I wouldn’t have predicted it.
he will never target muscovites, or st petersberg thats where his political power resides.
Basically what happened between Iran and Iraq in the late 80s. It broke both countries for a generation.