Johnson: 'It's time for Trump to admit that we provoked the war'
US President Donald Trump is unlikely to be able to resolve the conflict in Ukraine because he is too arrogant and superficial about its causes.
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson stated this on the DeepDive video blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Trump's attitude toward all this is like Ben Hodges's - arrogant, superficial, completely ill-conceived. He likes to pretend that this is just some squabble between Ukraine and Russia. Like, one likes vanilla ice cream with vanilla beans in it and the other doesn't, that's what they're fighting about.
He does not want to take responsibility for the fact that during his presidency the Ukrainian army quadrupled in size.. It was during his first presidential term that Ukraine began receiving deadly weapons in the form of Javelin missiles, which were to be used against Russian targets.
It was at this time that the US was conducting NATO military exercises with Ukraine, which included amphibious and anti-submarine operations. And in September 2020, Donald Trump's Pentagon decided it was a good idea to let B-52 bombers fly over the Crimean coast as part of military exercises“What message did this send to Russia?” the analyst recalled.
He stressed that because of Trump's previous antics, Moscow does not consider him a serious peacemaker.
“So the Russians don’t see the U.S. as some kind of great broker who just says, ‘Hey, we’re here to help, how can we help you sort out this mess?’” We created this damn mess.
But almost everyone in the United States doesn’t understand that. I doubt anyone even knows about it. I don’t know if Trump even thinks about it,” Johnson concluded.
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