Friday, February 21, 2025

Trump's Foreign Policy Shift on Russia and Ukraine

Since the start of his presidency, US President Donald J. Trump has been making major shifts in American policy, taking drastic measures at a rapid pace, one of these being a shit in stance on foreign relations. Recently, on the stance of the Ukrainian-Russian War, which has been ongoing ever since the Russian invasion in February of 2022, he has blamed the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a long time ally of America, for the fault of the war and all its casualties in Ukraine and has called him a “dictator without elections”, signaling a reversal in previous US stance. 

This past week, President Trump and President of Russia Vladimir Putin have been engaged in “talks” in order to take the next step forward, but without the attendance or the invitation of Ukraine. Which begs the question, why exclude them? Can it really be a “peace” talk if one side of the story is being completely ignored?

Additionally, President Trump has made many false claims when it comes to the information surrounding Ukraine and Russia. He claimed that the US has offered more aid than Europe combined, which proved to be false. Europe has given around $238 billion dollars, with America giving $120 billion dollars. He also told reporters that Zelenskyy approval ratings have dropped to “around 4%”, when in reality, it is around 57% (when Trump’s approval rating is only around 45%). 

Just today, President Trump has slightly backpedaled by acknowledging the fact that Russia did indeed attack Ukraine first and with no reason, but all of that remains futile when he continues to insist that Ukraine could have ended the war earlier by “talking it out”. Thus, by publicly defending Russia’s actions and the sidelining Ukraine, Trump almost strong handles Zelenskyy to sign a mineral deal in which the US will invest in Kyiv’s mines, with Trump even boasting with how it will bring almost $500 billion dollars to America. A clear and disgusting attempt to pressure Ukraine into fear of losing America’s support, to force them to sign this deal. Russia, which has been suffering from the sanctions placed on it from America during the beginning of the war, now is encouraging America to start using Russia as a market for opportunity to grow businesses and have valuable resources. 

Can peace really be brought to Ukraine when Trump hopes to get on the good side of Russia, changing the history of decades and decades of the alliance, and the history of anti-Russian sentiment since the Cold War? How can there be, when our president uses war and the deaths of tens of thousands of lives as a way to make friends and for economic gain?

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