Donald Trump made clear that his personal grudge with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hasn’t abated during a phone interview with NBC News.

Speaking with Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker on Saturday, the president knocked Zelensky for offering assistance to the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries, the latter of which the Ukrainian president said on Friday were seeking his aid in sharing drone detection technology.

The “last person we need help from is Zelensky,” Trump told Welker.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    Ukraine is winning because they found cheaper drone defenses than drones…

    Were burning thru our sophisticated interceptors because we’re wasting them on drones 1/100th the prices.

    Iran just has to keep pumping out the same drones they’ve been sending to Russia.

    Like, Ukraine is literally the one government that knows how to win this kind of war.

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      Haaaaaaang on.

      Are you saykng that Iran has been supplying Russia with drones, and now they’ll be keeping them to use against the USA, for the explicit purpose of being destroyed?

      So, wouldn’t this mean Russia loses their supply? So wouldn’t that mean it’s actually in Zelenskyys best interest to NOT help the USA?

      If USA ends their war quickly, Iran starts supplying Russia again with drones. But until that happens, wouldn’t Ukraine have an easier time in their own war?

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        If USA ends their war quickly

        The only way the US ends this war quickly is by retreating. Drones or not it’s a quagmire.

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          War agsinst a non-nuclear state onlu needs 2 things to be quick.

          1. A shitload of nukes

          2. Someone in charge of those nukes who has no morals or empathy.

          At this point, the only thing making the war take more than a day, is the fact that somehow trump thought better of dropping 4,000 nukes spread out over the entirety of Iran. They’d probably call it something like “Operation Scorched Earth”.

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                Nope but China, Israel, Russia, India and Pakistan all do and its probably unclear who the US would be launching at when they’re all headed towards Iran. Lots of itchy trigger fingers around.

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                  Israel is the only country even marginally close enough to be mistaken for the target.

                  And they would know we’re not going to fire upon them. We’re apperently sucking their dick politically.

                  None of that would make sense for any of those countries to think it’s aimed at them.

                  Let me put it in baseball terms. You’re looking at an infield pop fly, and worried that the outfielders might catch it. Or in the case of Russia, a fan in the upper bowl of the bleachers. The trajectory doesn’t line up for that to make sense.

                  MAYBE Israel, but again, they know they’re safe from us.

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                    Depends on trajectory, to hit Iran, unless your going over the southern hemisphere, you’re either passing over China, Russia or Europe / the middle east. At least for ICBMs launched from the mainland. I suppose there’s nothing stopping a sub from launching a few miles from Iran’s coast.

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        Yes, Russia will lose a part of their supply.

        They will also gain a lot of money they can use to buy things from other places.