Now c'mon cultists, when are you going to come to your senses and finally admit Trump is deeply compromised and is clearly in Putin's pocket?

There's also the possibility that this is just motivated delusional thinking.

Trump promised that he'd end the war, and he wants to be praised for being a peacemaker. It is very easy for us to strong-arm Ukraine, since they're weaker and reliant on our arms. It is much more difficult for us to strong-arm Russia, because that involves a lot of things that don't jibe well with the rest of the Trump agenda: working with allies, spending on foreign aid and assistance, and relying on agency expertise.

It's much easier for the war to end with Ukraine mostly losing, and for Russia to get nearly all of what it wanted. So Trump willfully believes things that make it more okay for Ukraine to mostly lose. One of those beliefs is that Ukraine started this war - not by firing the first shot, but by doing things that effectively forced Russia to invade. It's balderdash, he really wants it to be true. Because the war is very difficult to end if Ukraine's side is the righteous one; and since it's worse for Trump if the war is difficult to end, it has to be true that Ukraine's side isn't the righteous one.

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